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Score One, the Dig
I have this unreasoning fear that someday I'm going to be mentioned in Media Farm. (God, the Dig has the longest URLs I have ever seen.)
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We're All Going to Hell
In light of recent events, I've managed to concentrate my attention on some of the superblogs: Atrios, Romenesko, Wonkette, the Daily Howler, the Daily Kos. (No, I don't know what Kos means. And it's too late to try to find out.) My favorites are the ones that use a lot of profanity.
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Well, Knock Me Down and Call Me Luxury Condos
Edit #1: Hooray! I found out this sale did not go through, at least according to a veteran Fenway dude I met poll-standing for Arroyo. On the down side, that means I sent a totally stupid letter to two newspapers. "I was wrong"-Patsy Cline.Original post follows ( Read more... ) -
The Boston Metro: Mental Street Litter
Maybe someday I will be a media columnist. I don't know if I can really do it, and anyway [redacted due to my big friggin' mouth-ed.]. Meanwhile I'm perfectly happy to be one of DK's stalker posters. Today I commented on a discussion of paper news v. web news:
I don't have anything to add to all this thoughtfulness, but I just wanted to poke my ( Read more... ) -
Mr. Smearcase Waxes Lyrical
He has a lot of worries. It's not easy being him! Today he posted something so funny and true that I was irresistibly moved to x-post.
Lately I'm freaked out on regular basis by abundance. By which I mean. You go to these Korean bodegas along any street and they have a huge bin of nice large white peaches, just for instance. And you start ( Read more... ) -
The Stupidest Thing I've Heard All Year
WBUR reported tonight that the U. S. Attorney's Office has sent out an e-mail warning that terrorists may be posing as homeless people for the purpose of gathering information. Apparently 'BUR got the story from the AP; the Globe has posted it here, though as the URL includes the word "terrosists" (terrestrial systems? therapeutic cysts?), this ( Read more... ) -
Please, Pay Me $400,000 to Take a Five-Week Vacation
Which Washington paper is it that's the good one? It must be the Post, which reports:
WACO, Tex., Aug. 2-President Bush is getting the kind of break most Americans can only dream of-nearly five weeks away from the office, loaded with vacation time ( Read more... ) -
History's Longest Rain Delay
The Other Sox are in town, enjoying the rain. "Gotta wonder why they haven't pulled the trigger on this one," the Sports Flasher says. The game has been held up for over three hours, frozen in the top of the fourth at 5-2, White Sox. Before the delay (today's second-during the first, long ago, Swamp Rat and I were in Winthrop, wrapped in beach ( Read more... ) -
Media Round-Up
Mark Jurkowitz has taken up Media Log duties at the Phoenix, but he's just not as good as Dan Kennedy. His writing is flat, he doesn't have DK's amused in-the-know tone, and his blog is full of typos. The Dig's Media Farm (it doesn't have its own link) is getting better every week. I'd love to know who writes it-the author is listed as "Dig ( Read more... )