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Monday, Apr 29, 2002

rush hour

spoozy reminds me of bis.

Saturday, Apr 27, 2002

dick tracy

feeling a little naked when you travel?

Thursday, Apr 25, 2002

here it comes (there it goes)

"When the old Sun bowed out on Jan. 4, 1950, it promised, as newspapers do, that the solution to the crossword puzzle would be published the next day. More than 52 years later, that next day finally came. The new Sun printed the answers yesterday."

history chunnel

"Research Guide to the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict" (via booknotes)

time piece

""Four-twenty"--once an obscure Bay Area term for pot--is showing up nationally in the advertisements and business names of concert promoters, travel agencies, even high-tech companies."

give me a call

i think we might be able to build a coalition around this op-ed piece. who needs tom friedman when we can build up trust from our mutual hatred of cell phone excess.

smile for the camera

"Media training one of great delicious experiences of life," wrote Ms. Fielding in a 1998 account published in England�s The Daily Telegraph. "Word �scarf� came up within three minutes �. Suddenly understand why Americans so fluent and sound-bite-esque on TV. Am trained to �scope out� my �bullet points� �. Must, however, not try to be funny but simply decide what going to say; tell them am going to say it, say it, then tell them have said it whilst ignoring interviewer, apart from using interviewer�s name as often as possible and remembering to �stay in the moment� and clenching the buttocks to avoid tense-looking mouth."

phuket, yo

some abc gum for ya.

lapdawg

"Lapham once considered himself a centrist, but said the center has moved so far to the right that he's now seen as liberal. Still, he believes the notion of a liberal media is "a canard . . . utterly a straw man as far as I'm concerned."

The right wing wants to "blame the wreckage of the culture on a few university professors," Lapham said. "The people that have (wrecked the culture) -- it's the (Rupert) Murdochs of the world. Those are the people who say, 'Whatever the market will bear.' The market doesn't think. The market isn't a cultivated person. It's a ball bearing. It will go immediately to what sells. That's what wrecks the culture."

midas well

ny observer columnist michael thomas "retires" to life of golfing gardening and blogging.

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