This Isn’t Working

This is the final installment of my notes on the cultural history of the bowling shirt. You don’t need to have read part one or part two, but you might like them. Winning In the twenty-first century, nostalgia piled on top of itself until it collapsed into a heap of meaningless. The swing revival …

This is part two of a series of notes on the bowling shirt and the culture around it. Part one is here, but you don’t need to have read it to enjoy this one. There Is No Twenty-Year Cycle I bowled on a computer before I bowled in real life. I spent hours on our Macintosh Performa playing “Alley 19,…

This is going to get weird Let me explain.  When I was sorting through my clothes before moving two years ago, I found an old bowling shirt I used to wear in high school. It was a gift from a friend who got it from her dad. At the time, it was cool—ironic, vintage, unique. I wore it until sometime …