Today’s NY Times style section includes this set of tales about weddings. “Her most vivid recollection involved a particularly brutish upstaging during a lavish wedding, just as the newlyweds began their first dance. As the number started, the groom’s college fraternity brothers, who were also on the wrestling team with […]
Last night after crunchy, spicy tuna rolls at our favorite Japanese restaurant Moshi Moshi in Northampton, we went to the little Pleasant St. theater to see “Grizzly Man.” Narrated by the filmmaker Werner Herzog, in his deep German accent, the film follows the travels and eventual demise of Tim Treadwell, […]
Driving back in the bright September sun, I passed a group of dark skinned men playing cricket in North Amherst. One man stood in front of a stake and the other pitched at him as he held his large bat. Amherst was a beehive of human activity, there was an […]
Today a man named Paul Schmidt came by the house. He wore a Red Sox baseball cap and held a clipboard. He works for Honeywell, and was there to inspect my new furnace. As gas and oil prices go up and up, I thought about how much more important people […]
Nikki Finke writes with a sharpened pencil in the LA Weekly. She published this screed after Michael Kinsley got bumped out of the editorial page job at the LA Times in early August. “The Kinsley Experiment, which officially ended this week at the Los Angeles Times not with a bang […]
Tina Brown writes about a place I wish I could have been, Bill Clinton’s Global Initiative conference at the Sheraton Hotel in New York last week “Welcome to Planet Clinton, an interconnected world that’s a solar system and a wormhole away from Bush country. Here Shimon Peres and Oprah Winfrey […]
Foud Ajami writes in the Opinion Journal on the deafening silence from Arabs. “The remarkable thing about the terror in Iraq is the silence with which it is greeted in other Arab lands. Grant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi his due: He has been skilled at exposing the pitilessness on the loose […]
Firemen wore SS uniforms, reported Ananova today on the Howie Carr website. “Two German firemen are in trouble after they tried on Nazi SS uniforms they found in an old farmhouse. The firefighters reportedly paraded up and down in the uniforms in front of a group of boy scouts. The […]
Daniel Terdiman writes on CNET today about Open Source magazine writing. “When Esquire magazine writer A.J. Jacobs decided to do an article about the freely distributable and freely editable online encyclopedia Wikipedia, he took an innovative approach: He posted a crummy, error-laden draft of the story to the site. Wikipedia […]
New Media Report is usually full of interesting insider stuff about the web, it’s edited by Elizabeth G. Hines. This is from today’s emailed report. “The news: Google has been quietly gathering classified feeds. The question: Is there a Google classified service in the works? Classified Intelligence—a classified ad industry […]
“From certain angles, the tanned Yaz looks like Ted Williams in the old Sears fishing ads. Tanned and muscular, but much quieter,” writes the Boston Globe. “On these September fishing trips, in a place where the coast of Massachusetts is protected and timeless, where the geese outnumber the people, Yaz […]
Steve Szkotak just emailed me from Richmond VA with news that the Daily Hampshire Gazette and Amherst Bulletin have been sold to the Newspapers of New England, publishers of the Recorder, Concord Monitor, and other papers. I have a connection to the old Gazette, I worked at the paper from […]