Two interesting profiles of intense personalities
---Russell Westbrook --- Westbrook is the star guard on the Oklahoma City Thunder NBA team. This year he could do what is next to impossible. That is to average a triple double, for points, rebounds, and assists, for an entire season. The February 5th Sunday New York Times Magazine profiles this extraordinary talent and an unusual personality, such that his teammates refer to him as "different dude", or "he's weird, yeah, bizarre, not normal". The way he dresses, the way he thinks, and importantly the way plays basketball can be unpredictable.
A regular season NBA game is rarely watched here. Toward the end of the post season, parts of a few games may be watched. Still, reading about sports remains an interest. This article is informative and reveals the story behind the meticulous and always intense Westbrook as he is playing in his first season after eight years of being paired with the more heralded Kevin Durant. For anyone with basketball experience, this is worth reading.
---Anthony Bourdain --- the current edition of The New Yorker profiles the television personality, food writer, and non-stop traveler who over the last 15 years has hosted and obsessively planned food forays around the world for three different networks. Now on CNN, his program is "Parts Unknown", which could refer both to the places and the food.
The article, written by the talented Patrick Radden Keefe, follows Bourdain's career through various Manhattan kitchens as he worked his way up in the restaurant business. His break came in 1998 when he became executive chef of Les Halles, a brasserie and steak house on Park Ave. around 30th street that was popular and always full. He turned that experience into a best selling book, "Kitchen Confidential" and has never looked back. This is a typical New Yorker profile that is in depth and all over the place. Bourdain is a personality that lives big, in an almost manic way. That life is captured for a reader's enjoyment.
Postscript 2/11---Just noticed that the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Golden State Warriors, now home of Durant and Stephen Curry, will play tonight on ABC. That may be worth a look for a quarter or so.
A regular season NBA game is rarely watched here. Toward the end of the post season, parts of a few games may be watched. Still, reading about sports remains an interest. This article is informative and reveals the story behind the meticulous and always intense Westbrook as he is playing in his first season after eight years of being paired with the more heralded Kevin Durant. For anyone with basketball experience, this is worth reading.
---Anthony Bourdain --- the current edition of The New Yorker profiles the television personality, food writer, and non-stop traveler who over the last 15 years has hosted and obsessively planned food forays around the world for three different networks. Now on CNN, his program is "Parts Unknown", which could refer both to the places and the food.
The article, written by the talented Patrick Radden Keefe, follows Bourdain's career through various Manhattan kitchens as he worked his way up in the restaurant business. His break came in 1998 when he became executive chef of Les Halles, a brasserie and steak house on Park Ave. around 30th street that was popular and always full. He turned that experience into a best selling book, "Kitchen Confidential" and has never looked back. This is a typical New Yorker profile that is in depth and all over the place. Bourdain is a personality that lives big, in an almost manic way. That life is captured for a reader's enjoyment.
Postscript 2/11---Just noticed that the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Golden State Warriors, now home of Durant and Stephen Curry, will play tonight on ABC. That may be worth a look for a quarter or so.
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