Matt Yglesias

40 Responses to “The Dalton Lacrosse Team”

1. Tyro Says:
   September 24th, 2008 at 4:12 pm

   it surprises me that Dalton would have a poor lacrosse team, since I would have assumed that it attracts a student body that is specifically interested, for cultural reasons, in pursuing lacrosse.

   Is there some other Manhattan private school which attracts the bulk of the “lacrosse crowd”?

2. BD Says:
   September 24th, 2008 at 4:16 pm

   Dude, save it for Facebook.

3. Andrew Fly Says:
   September 24th, 2008 at 4:16 pm

   I don’t know who that guy is either, but naming his blog “Not about Marquise Grissom” is a stroke of genius

   How many blogs are named after low-OBP base-stealers who played for Les Expos?

4. j.e.b. Says:
   September 24th, 2008 at 4:16 pm

   Um, Matt. If wikipedia “misses the fact that the film and book versions of American Psycho differ”, then, umm, you could change it. That’s the whole point of wikipedia, after all.

5. ryan Says:
   September 24th, 2008 at 4:16 pm

   I love you Matt, but I’m not sure there exists a phrase more likely to cause my eyes to glaze over than “Dalton lacrosse team.”

6. cinematthew Says:
   September 24th, 2008 at 4:16 pm

   Hey, what happened to the “Getting to Work” post that’s on my RSS feed? It should be below this one, right? Good post, let’s see it.

7. Andrew Fly Says:
   September 24th, 2008 at 4:17 pm

   yikes, he has another one called “Not about Delino Deshields” !

   http://delinodeshields.blogspot.com/

8. dbreger Says:
   September 24th, 2008 at 4:38 pm

   that had to be a pain shlepping from downtown. why not friends or unis or st. anne’s? did it turn out to be a good thing, schooling with the children of the masters of the universe? which is the more valuable network, dalton or harvard?

9. Michael Says:
   September 24th, 2008 at 4:42 pm

   I’m outing him

   Marquis is Rich Berger.

   Delino is a joint project with several other authors.

   And when I was on the Dalton Lacrosse Team, we definitely had at least one win. Maybe two.

10. No Comment Says:
    September 24th, 2008 at 4:53 pm

    Thanks, Matt, for doing the valuable work of reminding us of how rich your parents are. Also, you haven’t told us that you went to Harvard for days.

11. 24AheadDotCom Says:
    September 24th, 2008 at 4:53 pm

    cinematthew:

    There was no such post, this was always the current topmost post.

    But, seriously, the post that doesn’t exist and never existed contained an email listing all of MattY’s posts today. Except, it was sent *last night* and MattY mistakenly included the headers showing it was sent from inside *BHO headquarters*.

12. steve Says:
    September 24th, 2008 at 4:53 pm

    Important list of Dalton pop culture references here,”

    I find it hard to believe that a school for the super-privileged which can’t even teach its students English is all that important.

13. MAX HATS Says:
    September 24th, 2008 at 5:16 pm

    Matt,

    I understand the political utility of stoking class resentment, but it generally works better if you don’t use yourself as a target.

14. gabriel Says:
    September 24th, 2008 at 5:22 pm

    Not everyone out there remembers Matt Y’s theatrical acting debut. But I do, because I was in the play with him. Perhaps one day, Matt, you will reprise your role in Line. I shall never forget you eating a banana at the top of the show.

15. Ikram Says:
    September 24th, 2008 at 5:25 pm

    Nothing about the scandalous! Dalton! tell-all! written by Anisha Lakhani — “Schooled”? All about the rampant cheating at that privileged (racist?) school

    In an interview, Lakhani wrote:
    … there were many hardworking students and decent families, but so, so much cheating is occurring and it needed to be exposed. In the beginning I thought making a thousand or even two thousand dollars an afternoon tutoring was a delicious way to supplement my teacher’s salary. It was only when I started receiving assignments from my own students that were so clearly the work of OTHER tutors that I started to feel as if I was undoing, after school, was I was DOING during school.

    and also
    it is my strong belief that many of these “pushes” for diverse students and faculty are actually racist. Not all, but some. I can’t help but wonder how much of hiring a diverse faculty is about promoting diversity itself or attracting a student body that will secure optimal acceptances to elite Ivy League Schools. If [the fictional Dalton] had 200 white, Jewish kids in their senior class, would that have secured them as many college acceptances than a class mixed with other ethnicities?

    Matther, trust-fund scumbag product of a racist cheater-infested school? Enquiring minds want to know.

16. M Says:
    September 24th, 2008 at 5:27 pm

    Wikipedia misses? So change it, foo!

17. a tiger Says:
    September 24th, 2008 at 5:28 pm

    If you’re school is the alma mater of a major Bret Easton Ellis character, you’re a permanent member of the Trust Fund Scumbags Club of America. Trust me, I went to Hampden-Sydney.

    “I find it hard to believe that a school for the super-privileged which can’t even teach its students English is all that important.”

    You’re confusing typing skills with English. And besides, you try pumping out 12 blog posts per day without typos.

18. Freddie Says:
    September 24th, 2008 at 5:28 pm

    What are you, baiting Petey?

    Trust fund scumbag.

19. Andrew Jackson Says:
    September 24th, 2008 at 5:47 pm

    I’ve normally got your back, Matt, but this shit is infuriating. Especially this week. If you don’t want to get strung up from a lamp-post, you should probably shut the fuck up about how your alma mater serves as a metonym for rich and slutty/psychotic assholes.

20. 55 Says:
    September 24th, 2008 at 5:55 pm

    Seriously dude, nobody gives a shit.

21. Richard Steven Hack Says:
    September 24th, 2008 at 7:13 pm

    Of equal importance is that on Monday night we learned that Terminators can’t swim…

    Cromartie having ingeniously arranged an entire kidnapping plot just to tap Sarah Connor’s cell phone and do an end run around everybody to go straight to John Connor, Connor ends up jumping off Santa Monica Pier into the Pacific ocean to escape.

    Cromartie, without hesitation, jumps in after him and tries to drag him down, ending up with John’s jacket instead as he sinks like a stone. (Of course, not being vulnerable to drowning, he just walks out of the water onto the beach later.) (As an aside, Garret Dillahunt, who plays Cromartie, didn’t sink fast enough, so the stunt crew loaded his pockets with sixteen pounds of steel shot!)

    John floats to the surface and paddles around. He looks up and sees the Caminator peering down at him from the railing.

    “A little help?” he asks.

    “I can’t swim”, she says, looking at him like he’s a total idiot.

    “I just figured that out”, he says.

22. Michael Says:
    September 24th, 2008 at 10:23 pm

    Mr. Jackson,

    It’s called jealousy.

    I’d feel sorry for you, but I’m too busy rolling in my bailout money.

    Cheers!

23. yohimbo Says:
    September 25th, 2008 at 12:32 am

    Wow.

    Well, Matt, I guess I can’t fault you for not having blocked off memories of such a past, but I am ambivalent as to whether or not that is a good thing.

    A good thing for me, I mean. Someone else mentioned jealously in the comments above, so that’s probably where I’m coming from.

    Don’t worry! I’m just depressed because of the close race.

    Oh, well. Hey — speaking of lacrosse era days, someone remind me, is negative desublimation a good thing or a bad thing, and for whom?

24. Glenn Says:
    September 25th, 2008 at 10:07 am

    Well, Matt I see you made the Wikipedia list of notable alumni, right above the guy who eats bugs on the Travel channel. Super!

25. Ron VandenBossche Says:
    September 25th, 2008 at 2:45 pm

    Please get rid of the viral movie ads that play in preview to the video clips.

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