A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Ruminations

He has a mushroom-shaped head, ink-black hair, and an expression of deep and intractable unhappiness, as unhappy a face as I’ve ever seen outside a Graduate Writing Program.

[Tennis Canada logo] - which obtrudes into your visual field as often as is possible here at the du Maurier Omnium - consists of the good old Canadian maple leaf with a tennis racquet for a stem. It’s stuff like that you want to point to when Canadians protest that they don’t understand why Americans make fun of them.

The power-baseline game itself has been compared to Metal or Grunge. But what a top P.B.er really resembles is film of the old Soviet Union putting down a rebellion. It’s awesome, but brutally so, with a grinding, faceless quality about its power that renders that power curiously dull and empty.