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Monthly Archives: October 2009
New York Times in Fantasyland
Page One story in Friday’s New York Times: “Drop the Mask! It’s Halloween, Kids, You Might Scare Somebody.” Guns, daggers and other toy weapons have long been excised from costumes at many school celebrations on Halloween. But in some classrooms … Continue reading
Boston Mayoral Ruse
I did a turn as WBUR’s media analyst on Friday’s Radio Boston, which featured Boston mayoral candidates Tom Menino and Michael Flaherty. Menino (via telephone) was his usual incoherent self, but it was Flaherty’s in-studio appearance that I found most … Continue reading
Yanked Around, Part Two
I yield to no man in my admiration for Olympian closer Mariano Rivera, but really – the Yankees have got to stop playing the boneheaded baseball they’ve descended into. Regardless of the ballclub’s performance, the Friday New York Times homepage … Continue reading
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Tagged Derek Jeter, Olympian closer Mariano Rivera, World's Serious
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A Million Monkeys Later . . .
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R-Kindergarten) recently – according to this New York Times report headlined (in the dead-tree edition) “Obscenity, Governor? Oh, That.” – issued a veto statement that “contained a message – and not a nice message – that … Continue reading
A World’s Serious
The great Ring Lardner‘s lede for his 1920 gem, “A World’s Serious:” ADVANCE NOTICE Sept. 30. – All though they have been world serious practally every yr. for the last 20 yrs. this next world serious which is supposed to … Continue reading
Clove Hurts
Excellent A-Hed in Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal: To the FDA, This Indonesian Smoke Is Close but No Cigar The story: Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar — unless the Food and Drug Administration and a congressional committee think it … Continue reading
Dead Blogging the Massachusetts Senate Debate
(dead blog v. tr. To write about an event after it’s happened.) Tonight’s Senate debate was – I dunno – unseemly. For starters, it was sponsored by the Edward Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate, the big (taxpayer) bucks … Continue reading
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W Is for Wha?
Anybody else wondering exactly why “Inside the W” ran above the fold in the Boston Sunday Globe’s Money & Careers section, while “Fight against hunger in the Hub expands” ran below the fold? Could it be that “the W Boston, … Continue reading
Yanked Around
As a survivor of the Great Fold of 2004, I’ll freely admit that I went into tonight’s Yankees-Angels game with one thought. Don’t do this to me again. The good news: They didn’t. The New York Yankees defeated the Anaheim … Continue reading
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Tagged ALCS, Great Fold of 2004, James Malone, Ring Lardner, World's Serious
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Soupy Sales Revisited
In my sendoff to the posthumously lionized (Pookie would be pleased) Soupy Sales, I foolishly left out the estimable-but-meshugge private detective Philo Kvetch. Grace note for the jazz-loving Milton Supman: Sad that he’s gone, but it’s been a hoot watching … Continue reading
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Tagged Bugs Bunny, Fractured Fairy Tales, Milton Supman, Philo Kvetch
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