kontextmaschine:

Oh my God, I just realized knowing how to pronounce “Buttegieg” crowded out knowing how to pronounce this other weird Midwestern name, this labor economist/historian who used to write about how he’d go to a white ethnic boxing gym in the rough 80s and they’d jog around the neighborhood like “I hope they try to jump us, we’ll show them what’s what”.

TOM GEOGHEGAN

(ge-GAY-gan)