Author Archives: Campaign Outsider

Peggy Noodnik Writes Again (Kamala Harris ‘Veep’ Edition)

Posted on December 12, 2021 by Campaign Outsider

Latest in our long-running series Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan opened up the family-size can of worms with yesterday’s piece about the various and sundry deficiencies of Vice President Kamala Harris. Kamala Harris Needs to Get Serious Her shaky … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Barton Gellman, Charles Homans, DNC, hardwincing staff, Jaime Harrison, Jemele Hill, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, New York Times, Peggy Noodnik, Peggy Noonan, Reuters/Ipsos poll, The Atlantic, Veep, Victoria Brownworth, Wall Street Journal | Leave a comment

Everything Currently Wrong in America Is Hillary Clinton’s Fault

Posted on December 10, 2021 by Campaign Outsider

Well the hardworking staff was wending its way through the New York Times yesterday when we come across this full-page MasterClass ad on A13. Say, that’s some 1992-2016 Murderers’ Row (not to be confused with the 1927 New York Yankees). But the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 1927 Yankees, Donald Trump, Her Royal Catastrophe, Hillary Clinton, HRC, Intelligencer, MasterClass, Murderers' Row, New York, New York Times, Sarah Jones, Teaching the Power of Resilience | 2 Comments

Twitter to Campaign Outsider: No Blue Check For You!

Posted on December 8, 2021 by Campaign Outsider

No man with a good car needs to be justified. – Hazel Motes in Flannery O’Connor’s Wise Blood So the other night the hardhoping staff tried to get our Twitter account verified. According to Twitter’s Help Center, an account must be “notable and … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged BBC News, blue check, Flannery O'Connor, Hazel Motes, Help Center, Radio Boston, Twitter, WBUR, Wise Blood | Leave a comment

Shadenfreude Alert: Ex-Boston Celtics Bomb in the Big Town

Posted on December 3, 2021 by Campaign Outsider

This past year in the NBA, there was a lot of shipping down from Boston – to New York. In June the Celtics shipped point guard Kemba Walker to the Oklahoma City Thunder, who promptly waived him, allowing Walker to sign … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Alec Burks, Boston Celtics, Evan Fournier, Hoopan Deb, Kemba Walker, Knickleheads, New York Knicks, New York Times, Oklahoma City Thunder, Sopan Deb, Tom Thibodeau | Leave a comment

Revisiting Boston Garden, ‘The Old Barn on Causeway Street’

Posted on November 29, 2021 by Campaign Outsider

The building was forty-one years old [in 1969]. Hard years. In a cramped and shopworn corner of the city, one flight up from the train station, surrounded by elevated subway tracks and an elevated highway that kept sunshine and clean … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 1981 Eastern Conference Finals, 1982 Eastern Conference Finals, 1984 Heat Game, 1988 Eastern Conference Semifinals, Andrew Toney, Atlanta Hawks, Basketball for the Player the Fan and the Coach, Beat LA, Billy Knight, Bob Ryan, Boston Celtics, Boston Globe, Danny Ainge, Dominique Wilkins, FleetCenter, Hubie Brown, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Kevin McHale, Larry Joe Bird, Leigh Montville, Magic Johnson, Marvin Barnes, Mike Fratello, Nate Archibald, New York Knicks, Nightfall, Philadelphia 76ers, Red Auerbach, Shawmut Center, Sports Team History, Tall Men Short Shorts, TD Garden, The Boston Strangler, The Great Sidney Wicks/Curtis (Skid) Rowe Dumpster Fire, The Hick From French Lick, Tiny Archibald, Vanasse Hangen Brustlin | 5 Comments

Dead Blogging ‘Valkyrie Mumbet’ at MassArt Art Museum

Posted on November 19, 2021 by Campaign Outsider

Well the Missus and I trundled over to the Massachusetts College of Art and Design yesterday to catch Joana Vasconcelos Valkyrie Mumbet (through 2021; reservations required) in the recently renovated Stephen D. Paine Gallery and, say, it was swellbinding. Renowned Portuguese artist … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Atelier Joana Vasconcelos, Elizabeth "Mumbet" Freeman, Executive Director Lisa Tung, Joana Vasconcelos Valkyrie Mumbet, Lisboa Cool, MAAM, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, MassArt Art Museum, National Women's History Museum, Stephen D. Paine Gallery, swellbinding | Leave a comment

So to Conclude: The Red Sox Were Not the Team o’ Destiny

Posted on October 24, 2021 by Campaign Outsider

But the Atlanta Braves still might be. First, the sad demise of the Crimson Hose, as narrated by the Boston Globe’s resident darn-those-Sox scribe Dan Shaughnessy. Red Sox ran out of karma, and it all started after the wristwatch taunt … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 2020 NLCS, Allman Brothers, Atlanta Braves, Boston Globe, Boston Red Sox, Dan Shaughnessy, darn-those-Sox, Hot 'Lantanas, Los Angeles Dodgers, Swat Caroline, Team o' Destiny, World's Serious | 1 Comment

The Wynton Marsalis Ad Jazz at Lincoln Center Should’ve Run

Posted on October 20, 2021 by Campaign Outsider

As the hardgrading staff noted yesterday, Jazz at Lincoln Center ran this totally unreadable full-page ad in the New York Times on Monday to celebrate Wynton Marsalis’s 60th birthday. (The Missus rightly noted that Wynton Marsalis deserved far better than … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged d 60th birthday, David Ogilvy, Jazz At Lincoln Center, New York Times, Ogilvy on Advertising, The Castle Press, Wynton Marsalis | Leave a comment

Hey, Jazz at Lincoln Center: Just Set Your Money on Fire

Posted on October 19, 2021 by Campaign Outsider

Yesterday was Wynton Marsalis’s 60th birthday, so the fine folks from Jazz At Lincoln Center took out this full-page ad in the New York Times to celebrate it. Yeah, that’s what we thought. Here’s a blown up section to give … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 60th birthday, David Ogilvy, Jazz At Lincoln Center, New York Times, Ogilvy on Advertising, The Castle Press, Wynton Marsalis | 1 Comment

Hold On: Maybe the Atlanta Braves Are the Team o’ Destiny

Posted on October 18, 2021 by Campaign Outsider

Yesterday the hardlyrooting staff (which has been a Made Yankee Fan in Boston for 45 years, so draw your own conclusions) presented the case for the Boston Red Sox as this postseason’s Team o’ Destiny. But now that the Atlanta … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Atlanta Braves, Garry Brown, hardlyrooting staff, Los Angeles Dodgers, Made Yankee Fan in Boston, MassLive, NLCS, Team o' Destiny, World's Serious | 1 Comment