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Monthly Archives: September 2010
Dead Blogging Matthew Weiner At The MFA
Being out on unpaid furlough and all, the hardworking staff has lots of time on its hands. So Wednesday night we trundled over to the MFA, where Mad Men man Matthew Weiner appeared at a banged-out Remis Auditorium. It was … Continue reading
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Tagged Beatles, BPL, Franzenfools, Joyce Kulhawik, Mad Men, Matthew Weiner, Mel Gibson, MFA, Santo & Johnny, Shapiro Celebrity Lectures
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Watch This (Other) Space
FROM: The Management TO: Our Splendid Readers RE: Hiatus The Management at Campaign Outsider is preparing to launch a new website that will focus on the old-fashioned belief that people have the right to know when they’re being advertised to. … Continue reading
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Damn, Yankees
Go figure – Mo blows a save, then Pap blows a save, then the Yanks load the bases but can’t win, then the Yanks load the bases and do win. How great a game is baseball?
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Tagged Boston Red Sox, Jonathan Papelbon, Mariano Rivera, New York Yankees
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Damn Yankees
As a Made Yankee Fan in Boston, I am of course dismayed that the Yanks (who are giving “Bronx Bombers” a whole new meaning) have been slapped around by the Red Sox the past two days. But I’m not surprised. … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Red Sox, Derek Jeter, Made Yankee Fan in Boston, New York Times, New York Yankees, Terry Francona
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Stein Gets Short Shrift – Again
The hardworking staff has no beef with the content of Brian Mooney’s largely dismissive piece about gubernatorial candidate Jill Stein (G/R – You Still There?) in Saturday’s Boston Globe. Representative sample: Stein, a graduate of Harvard and Harvard Medical School, … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, Brian Mooney, Jill Stein, Please Marginalize Me
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Captain Rupert Chases The Great White Times, Chapter Four
After 1) morphing the Wall Street Journal from a knockout financial daily into a reasonably interesting general-interest newspaper; 2) launching a glossy WSJ. (don’t forget the period) magazine; and 3) bankrolling a WSJ New York Metro section (in hopes of bankrupting the other … Continue reading
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Tagged New York Times, Rupert Murdoch, Wall Street Journal, WSJ Weekend, WSJ.
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Another Scott Brownnabe
All across this great land of ours, longshot political candidates are finding inspiration in Massachusetts junior senator Scott Brown’s improbable win this past January. (See – actually, hear – this Here & Now piece from last month.) These candidates believe … Continue reading
Dead Blogging The Massachusetts Gubernatorial Debate #2
The first Boston Media Consortium bakeoff (accent on Con, since it required participants to raise $100,000 by October 1, even though the debate took place on September 21), proceeded smartly last night, thanks in no small part to moderator John … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Media Consortium, Charlie Baker, CNN, Deval Patrick, Jill Stein, John King, Tim Cahill
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One For The Old Man
Whenever we talked about religion (which was far too often), my father, Jack Carroll – a.k.a. Black Bart (don’t ask), a.k.a The Silver Fox (he turned gray at age 26 . . . because of me, he always said) – … Continue reading
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