We usually think of referees as being those people in striped shirts in the middle of the field who blow whistles. Even I think of them this way — but it is far from the real picture. Soccer referees don’t wear striped shirts and they blow their whistles as rarely as possible, only enough to …
Non-fiction Referee Chronicles #1 Fiction The Defender I love soccer. I play it, watch it, talk about it, and write about it. I’ve played soccer for 30 years and after this summer I will have watched seven World Cups. (I will have attended four of them, including the final game of Germany 2006, which is …
I just finished my second weekend of professional refereeing, with four games split between Saturday and Sunday. It was fantastic. On Saturday, I coached some tiny but surprisingly skillful under-10 kids. It was wonderful: a beautiful day, agreeable parents, and a fairly exciting end-to-end game, which is saying quite a bit given the size of …
Some time ago, I decided to write a series of stories about a referee. I have written several of them, but I have decided to wait to place them online for a few reasons. I wanted to learn more about being a referee and I realized that I didn’t know as much as I’d like …
A page from Nether World, a new post-apocalyptic graphic novel from Arcana Books. http://t.co/ZHI43IOt
The Iranian webcomic Zahra's Paradise has been serialized online for the past three years. http://t.co/LH8dn09v Ah ha! I think the reason why Netflix has mostly B-movies is bc Amazon gobbled them up for streaming. I suppose this is well known.
