Sailing with the Sea Shepards in the South Ocean
Peter Heller is an old friend who just published an incredible article in National Geographic Adventure, about sailing with the Sea Shepards in the Antarctic, trying to sabotage Japanese whaling ships. “The Nisshin Maru was on our port side, and the two ships approached each other at an acute angle. […]
It’s Poker on Triple Espresso
Today’s NY Times included a story about a new Fox show: ” “Poker Dome” will encase a group of players in a soundproof, glass-walled stage, while viewers and a studio audience watch everything they do. Microphones will capture game chatter, and pulse monitors strapped to the gamblers will track their […]
There Used to be a Cafe There
This morning I drove down into the flats of Holyoke. There I found City Paper, where it felt like I was being transported back in time. Wooden floors, sad and tired party decorations, an older black women behind the counter, no customers in sight. I was there to find plastic […]
Max E. Churchill is Done for a While
I went to Greenfield on Wednesday morning, and was crossing the street when I saw two cops quickly approach in a cruiser. They looked excited, energized, and one gripped his holster as he ran toward the BankNorth on Federal Street. They were looking for somebody, and I didn’t know who. […]
Sob, Weep, Here Come the Builders & Inventors
ABC is becoming the Network of Weeping. On Sunday nights, the juggernaut show is Extreme Makeover, with Ty Pennington, who can draw raw emotions out of anything, including a trip to Sears. Then each of the craftsmen and designers gets a chance to wring tears out of the audience. Then […]
No Books for You! I see Your Undies!
Falkenberg, Sweden — A Swedish school library is refusing to lend books to pupils if their underwear is showing. Pupils of Tullbro School in Falkenberg do not have to wear a uniform but librarians are clamping down on some teenage fashions. Students who wear hipsters which show off their underwear […]
Ms. Mudflap Meets Yosemite Sam, Drives into the Sunset
Home at lunchtime baking lemon poppy and pumpkin bread, I usually turn on the television down in the basement. Today it was Modern Marvels…about UFOs. But what got my attention was this clever ad for the new Honda Ridgeline truck. Therein, the silver girl on the mudflaps slinks her way […]
It Ain’t as Interesting if I We Have to Buy It
At the Minneapolis Star Tribune, the execs are up in arms about what happened after they tried making the employees pay for the newspaper. Below is part of a letter to them: “There has been one unfortunate and unacceptable byproduct of the switch – employees are stealing print copies from […]