Author Bio & Stories

Logan K. Young

Logan K. Young has written about sports for Can't Stop The Bleeding and Wrestling News World. Meanwhile, his writings on post-punk have appeared in the Baltimore Sun and the Trouser Press Record Guide. Like him @logankyoung and, if you must, buy his book, Mauricio Kagel: A Semic Life.

  • October 17, 2012
    Arrogance, Scheming, and The Big Ten: Now In Book Form — The Clog

    David Young's sprawling, well-researched and amusingly scummy Arrogance and Scheming in the Big Ten: Michigan State’s Quest for Membership and Michigan’s Powerful Opposition is a history of two schools at their worst and most craven, but also a backhanded tribute to some not very good, but very stubborn priorities.

  • October 8, 2012
    Reads Bad: Looking at Yahoo's Robo-Roto Fantasy Recaps

    It doesn't necessarily seem like good news, at least from a singularity/rise-of-the-robots perspective, that Yahoo has a team of robo-writers churning out reams of fantasy football copy. The good news, though, is that these robot-crafted fantasy football recaps read as if they were written by and for strange fifth graders. 

  • August 24, 2012
    Spam Poetics: Bieber Will Yield His Skateboard — The Clog

    In which an especially avant-garde spam comment about Justin Bieber, skateboarding, and (mostly) misused words inspires our spam poets to go above and beyond, into the realm of experimental diptychs and spoken word. It's weird.

  • June 25, 2012
    Spam Poetics: The Ballad of the Baltimore Bohemians (and Discount Oakleys) — The Clog

    Today's spam poesy is perhaps the most ambitious entry in the field yet: a simultaneous inversion of and tribute to an especially avant-garde Oakley-spamming comment, repurposed here into a tribute to Classical favorites and official minor league soccer team, The Baltimore Bohemians. You're crazy for this one, Logan K. Young.