Monthly Archives: January 2012

Dead Blogging The GOP New Hampshire Debate

(The Hardworking Staff Held iPadlocked, Day 4. No video, no links, no ITALICS. Free the Campaign Outsider One!) Let’s get right to the major results of last night’s Republican presidential primary debate in New Hampshire: 1) If you picked “jobs” … Continue reading

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Arts Seen In The Big Town (II)

Three to see in New York City: * Cecil Beaton: The New York Years at the Museum of the City of New York (through 2/20/12). And while you’re there, check out The Greatest Grid: The Master Plan of Manhattan, 1811-2011 … Continue reading

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Arts Seen In The Big Town

The Missus and I went down the city and here’s some of what we saw: * Vivian Maier at the Howard Greenberg Gallery A professional nanny in Chicago, Vivian Maier was also a street photographer nonpareil from the 1950s to … Continue reading

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Hardworking Staff Held iPadlocked, Day Three

Compliments of the late, grate Steve Jobs, another post without video or links. From the Campaign Outsider files: * Democratic Super PAC goes all Solyndra on Mitt Romney. American Bridge has posted a web video whacking Romney for doing exactly … Continue reading

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Take The Whitney Museum Tours

The Missus and I have taken a few gallery tours at the Whitney Museum lately, and they’ve been uniformly excellent – from the recent Lyonel Feininger exhibit to the current Sherrie Levine: Mayhem (through January 29) and Real/Surreal (through February … Continue reading

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Dogging Mitt Romney

The hardworking staff has recently received several comments that we’ve filed under “Seamus on Mitt Romney.” From splendid reader Laurence Glavine: “Speaking of the Noo Yawk Times: Gail Collins is definitely pranking the folks who make fun of her references … Continue reading

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Bad Sentence ‘o the Day (Charles Isherwood Edition)

Actually, a daily double from Charles Isherwood’s New York Times book review of “Would It Kill You to Stop Doing That?” by Henry Alford: “The implicit promise of thorough and up-to-date instruction in how to behave isn’t entirely fulfilled by … Continue reading

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Ads ‘n’ Ends (Grand Old Parting Edition)

Now that the Gang of Seven has split up (ave atque vale Rick and Michele), let’s see where things stand with the survivors. (Production note: The hardworking staff is currently iPadlocked, so no video or links, but we’re ruminating and … Continue reading

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Boston Herald Front Page Clueless

The very definition of whistling past the graveyard: Really, guys – that’s what 25% buys you these days? Since when is a single is a home run?

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Our First Quadrennial Hawkie Awards

The hardworking staff is pleased to announce Campaign Outsider’s Hawkie Awards, a quadrennial exercise in highlighting the most ridiculous aspects of the Iowa caucuses, outside of the fact that they have any impact at all. Regardless, nunc est bibendum: I’ll … Continue reading

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