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Tuesday, Jan 06, 2004
he believed
Monday, Jan 05, 2004
knicked up
wow. i cant believe im getting a major sports update from matt yglesias. scooped again. i dont even have a joke at my own expense. will talk about the trade once ive checked it out. cant say im a stephon marbury fan though.
smellavent
my new neighbors to the north (aka upstairs) have commenced with the unpardonable sin of cooking non-foul smelling items within noseshot. will their treachery never surcease?
dilly dally
one of the powers of the blogosphere which can be used and abused is a collective hammering down on someone in the media for shoddy misuse of their office. it seems this nedra pickler has been the ire of many for some weeks now. i dont doubt that theyve made her somewhat uncomfortable, or at least one would hope.
willing and alba
sure, 2003 was a breakout year for bloggers but we wont truly have made it into the american collective subconscious until some bloggers are featured on Entertainment Tonight. well, that wont be long now as Oliver Willis has announced his secret marriage to hollywood siren Jessica Alba. no word yet on where the happy couple are spending their honeymoon, or whether Alba has been notified of the preceding nuptials. a toast to The Willises, may the annulment be quick and painless. just dont break her heart, O-Dub.
arresting development
im glad to see that Arrested Development has been picked up for next year. ive found the episode to be hit or miss but its still the only new sitcom thats worth watching. actually, i dont think i could name any other new ones. my one wish for the show would be more David Cross. and props to Liza Minnelli, shes actually funny as an actress when shes not being portrayed as a pathetic old diva in the tabloids.but what inspired this post was the news that AD star portia di rossi is dating ringo starrs step daughter. and look, she has scruples. damn her. heres the girlfriends site.
Sunday, Jan 04, 2004
times change
im liking this ny times ombudsm...ur, public editor. half the newspaper should be bs reporting and the other half should be used to deconstruct the articles.
Saturday, Jan 03, 2004
les is less
"The company has begun laying the foundation for the first of four buildings it is putting up on land that has been the target of fierce dissension and the site of failed plans for decades. To be called Avalon Chrystie Place, its 708 apartments will be in buildings scattered across four irregular parcels sitting between East Second Street to the north, Stanton Street to the south, the Bowery to the west and Second Avenue and Chrystie Street to the east. The property, which measures more than three acres, is traversed by East First Street and Houston Street."
defensive posture
"There are two very large inferences that can be drawn from comments like these and, more broadly, from the current debate over national security issues in policy institutes, academia and professional journals. One is that the Bush administration stands very, very far from the foreign-policy mainstream: liberal Democrats, conservative Democrats and moderate Republicans have more in common with one another than any of them have with the Bush administration. The other conclusion is that the administration's claim that 9/11 represents such a decisive break with the past that many of the old principles no longer apply is right -- but the new principles need not be the ones the administration has advanced. A different administration could have adapted to 9/11 in a very different way. And this is why national security should be, at least potentially, such a rich target of opportunity for a Democratic candidate."
Friday, Jan 02, 2004
affairgate
"I actually think it's likely that the original source didn't know that Plame was a "NOC," because I actually don't believe that the people around Bush would have been sufficiently unpatriotic to burn a NOC, and all of her assets, in such a petty act of revenge and damage control. That was my first take on this story, and I haven't yet seen adequate reason to change it. I think that some of my Democratic friends are so taken with the general horribleness of the Bush Administration as to have lost sight of that fact that these people aren't Snidely Whipsnade melodrama villains, self-consciously revelling in the evil they do. In their own minds, they're good people, and above all, patriots. So it's much more likely that whoever called Novak would have had only a hazy impression of Plame's actual status than that he would have been deliberately revealing a still highly secret identity."