What he said: Slate’s Ben Yagoda explains why Sports Illustrated’s Gary Smith is America’s best sportswriter, no, make that the best writer, period. Which sort of relates to what I blogged last week.

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Gary Smith is a modern nonfiction master, and it’s about time everyone else got the memo.

Still traveling: San Francisco is beautiful, but you would think a hotel in the center of the tech world would have better internet access than what is available at the Hotel Rex. Nonetheless, that’s the only thing keeping me from naming it the official hotel of the rexblog. Heading out again shortly, but I’ll be doing some catch-up blogging later tonight or tomorrow.