Posts by Kevin Wildes

  • NBA Half-Baked Ideas: Five Not-Quite-Foolproof Ways to Improve the Basketball Experience This Season

    The following NBA Half-Baked Ideas are ordered from most plausible to most “C’mon, man.” Warning: These ideas are not fully baked.

  • Kevin Wildes and David Jacoby

    The return of Half-Baked! In this episode, David Jacoby and Kevin Wildes add a little flair to bowling, create the basketball bullpen, and devise much more.

  • Gerald Green

    Half-Baked Ideas: Let’s Fix the Dunk Contest with a Hero’s Journey

    Here’s a word that should exist — complainolidays. These are days when people get together and complain about things they actually love. The day we travel for Thanksgiving is a complainoliday. The credits of Girls launches a complainholiday. Saturday, February 16, the day of the NBA’s Slam Dunk Contest, is a complainoliday. The following list […]

  • The Half-Baked Podcast

    Kevin Wildes and David Jacoby are back with six more half-baked ideas, including grown man sleepy-time books, business bye weeks, and America’s Team Olympics.

  • The Half-Baked Podcast

    This Fast Company article bills George Lois as “the original Mad Man” and “advertising’s original Bad Boy.” I personally think he trends more Draper than Craig Mack, but sure. In any event, here’s my favorite part of the article: “To create great work, here’s how you must spend your time: 1% inspiration, 9% perspiration, 90% […]

  • The Triangle Podcast: Kevin Wildes’s Half-Baked Idea

    I’m so fired up for the Olympics that if you cut me I’d bleed red, white, and blue. My arm would look like a melted Bomb Pop. Wait a second, there’s a little green in there too. Yeah … sorry. That’s a streak of envy I’ve got now that I’ve realized I’m going to be […]

  • Winners and Losers: Tebowmania Edition

    Life is filled with nuance and compromise. Luckily, Kevin Wildes has sorted through it all for our feature, Winners and Losers. The Winners Lindsey Vonn’s ex-husband-to-be Thomas Vonn Lindsey Vonn says she’s “friends” with Denver quarterback Tim Tebow, and I’m a jerk for putting quotations around that word. I should just accept her explanation. She […]

  • Winners and Losers

    Life is filled with nuance and compromise. Luckily, Kevin Wildes has sorted through it all for our feature, Winners and Losers.

  • Tebow

    Winners of the Week: Penn Jillette and Tim Tebow (Yes. Tebow.)

    Five years ago I went out with Bill Simmons for a night of debauchery. That means we played shuffleboard for four hours. The next day I brushed the shuffleboard salt from my eyes, drank a Gatorade, and wrote a long email about Winners and Losers of the night. It wasn’t bad. Next time I saw […]

  • Winners and Losers

    Life is filled with nuance and compromise. Luckily, Kevin Wildes has sorted through it all for our feature, Winners and Losers.

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