I’ve just finished Jeffery Tayler’s book about his trip across the Sahel in Africa. So I found his other journey journal, called “Glory in a Camel’s Eye,” on Amazon and extracted this nugget. “In any case, I discovered a distraction that brought me closer to Moroccan life than any job […]
A grey Saturday in South Deerfield, a day to let your eyes close and nap, and one to read the local papers. I picked up the Recorder and found a big front page story about an atrocity against birds. The owner of a Sunderland fish hatchery had more than 250 […]
“Today, there are new claims about other ways we are tracking down al Qaeda to prevent attacks on America,” Bush said.The government does not listen to domestic phone calls without court approval. Third, the intelligence activities I authorized are lawful and have been briefed to appropriate members of Congress, both […]
Wendy Goodman lives in Greenfield, MA and just returned from Haiti, where she opened a community arts center in 2003. She explained the difficulties of trying to make progress in a country such as Haiti, where mistrust of outsiders and strict class boundries are so sharp. She was interviewed in […]
David Andelman wrote a tribute in Forbes about the Timesman who just passed away this week. The Times takes a lot of flack, but Abe Rosenthal was a class act. “After three months of total immersion in Vietnamese at Berlitz, I was heading to Saigon as a newly minted foreign […]
Gawker is the biggest of all blogs. Some of their sticky features explain why. I was just browsing on their Gawker Stalker page. There every day, they chronicle where readers have run into stars. All of the stars you’d think they would log the comings and goings of, from Lucy […]
Craig Silverman writes in the Toronto Globe and Mail about a pair of porn magnates. “As he hoovers his way through a pack of cigarettes, McAlear explains how he went from working stiff to porn king. He was a mechanical engineer at Bell Helicopter when he introduced his wife to […]
Today is a big day. Nathaniel Javier Cosme turns ONE! It was exactly one year ago, I was basking in the nude at D’Anza Springs Resort in the California desert, and Kate called me with the big news. I ws thrilled for her then and remain in love with my […]
Steve Ballmer is a rich man and knows what is coming down the pike from Microsoft. He spoke at an industry event and predicted great things for RSS feeds. “While feedreading has been more embraced by those who work and use technology very frequently in their lives, Microsoft should be […]
Chip Scanlan, writes in the Poynter.org website about Harvard’s now infamous “Chick-Lit Plagiarist” Kaavya Viswanathan. “When accusations of plagiarism began to spread this week about a hot new novelist — a 19-year-old Ivy Leaguer who’d pulled down a reputed $500,000 two-book contract and a DreamWorks movie deal to boot — […]
