Nick Bergus Thoughts on what media do, and can do better, and other things

For the last 17 months, I’ve been roller skating in counter-clockwise circles around women hitting each other while also skating in counter-clockwise circles, blowing a whistle and shouting projecting at them. Except not really. For the first several of those month, you could barely call what I was doing roller skating. It was mostly falling [...]

I’ve been watching the West Region Area Derby Action Playoff  Tournament, or whatever WFTDA wants everyone to call the western regional now, and the announcers keep shouting about five-point grand slams. It drives me crazy. A grand slam in roller derby is always five points. Referring to it as a “five-point grand slam” is like referring to a six-point touchdown. But the [...]