Tobias Peterson is PopMatters’ Sport Editors and columnist (From the Cheap Seats). He holds an MA in English Literature (with a concentration in Cultural Studies) from George Mason University, where he studied representations of race in professional basketball.
Features
Friday, September 28 2007
Allen Ginsberg: The Politics of Ecstasy
Ginsberg had an eye that took in a world full of lovers and low-lifes -- each, for him, was a song waiting to be sung.
Tuesday, October 24 2006
The Thin (White) Line between Ballers and Brawlers
Critics of the Miami-FIU fight are condemning the same kind of antagonism, machismo, and mayhem that is regularly reinforced as integral to football as a sport.
Monday, March 20 2006
Film Days 6 and 7: Dreams for Insomniacs
We bid a fond farewell to the cultured madness of SXSW Film 2006, as the barbarian hordes of the music festival descend to have their way with Austin.
Thursday, March 16 2006
Film Days 4 and 5: Camps, Pixies, and Four Letter Words
Attending these events makes me feel a lot like one of those nature documentarians, tracking some bizarre annual urban migration.
Wednesday, March 15 2006
Film Day 3: Other Bodies, Other Selves
This year's festival is a scene Fellini would have been proud to shoot. And I haven't even gotten into the theater.
Columns
Wednesday, January 26 2011
Play On: Get Off the Couch, Get On the Court
The true measure of a fan’s joy is in play. Without it, all sports would simply cease to be.
Tuesday, December 7 2010
Teams of Rivals: 'Tis the Season for Mayhem, Pranks and All Around Hating One Another
Rivalry games feature a special kind of hatred -- the kind only your closest neighbor can inspire.
Wednesday, November 17 2010
An Anti-Brett-Favre-Article Article
From the desk of Roger Goodell: It is with the goal of achieving 100 percent media saturation that I submit these notes.
Thursday, October 21 2010
Redemption Songs: Rehabilitating Michael Vick
Michael Vick has arrived at the final stage of a well-known formula: transgression-outrage-apology-punishment-contrition-and, finally, forgiveness.
Thursday, September 9 2010
Jay Mariotti and the Moral Role
In a world of 24-hour programming, Jay Mariotti's Around the Horn does for ESPN what Glenn Beck or Bill O’Reilly does for Fox News: fill in large gulfs of empty space between actual news or events by making a fetish of opinion.
Reviews
Tuesday, April 26 2011
'The Poets Laureate Anthology': Another Salvo in the War Against Irrelevance
Anthologies such as this are a movement, or a moment, a force of expression that seeks to take up more space -- literally and figuratively -- than the book of one individual might.
Thursday, November 8 2007
Paul Bowles
The mystery that surrounded Paul Bowles, then and now, seems to be the driving force of his artistic legacy.
Wednesday, May 9 2007
Rising Son - The Legend of Skateboarder Christian Hosoi (2006)
Christian Hosoi was the coolest of the cool, a brash and rowdy pin-up idol whose talent took him to the apex of the skateboarding world during the '80s, only to leave him flailing when the world moved on without him.
Tuesday, January 2 2007
Private (2004)
This film, at its heart, asks the question of how a fundamentally intolerable situation is to be tolerated.
Friday, October 6 2006
Krays - Geordie Connection (2004)
Rather than delving into the multitude of cultural ramifications posed by twin, bisexual crime lords, the film instead is satisfied merely to offer up a hodgepodge of disconnected video clips.
Blogs
Monday, December 14 2009
The Official World Series Film Collection
The Official World Series Film Collection - A&E Home Video [$229.95]
