Monthly Archives: October 2015

Dead Blogging ‘A Number’ at New Repertory Theatre

Posted on October 11, 2015 by Campaign Outsider

Well the Missus and I trundled out to Watertown last night to catch A Number at the New Rep and say, it was . . . headspinning. In this stark and startling drama, a son confronts his emotionally distant father, learning … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged A Number, Caryl Churchill, Clay Hopper, Dale Price, Intimate Apparel, Lyric Stage, Nael Nacer, New Rep, New Repertory Theatre | Leave a comment

Civilians Who Run Full-Page Ads in the New York Times (Umpteenth Yoko Ono Edition)

Posted on October 10, 2015 by Campaign Outsider

Yoko Ono pays for full-page ads in the New York Times almost as often as Lord & Taylor does. So it was again yesterday, when the Rift Beatle ran this ad in the Times to mark John Lennon’s 75th birthday. … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged ImaginePeace.com, John Lennon, John Lennon at 75, Lord & Taylor, New York Times, Rift Beatle, Yoko Ono | 3 Comments

Boston Is One Crappy Baseball Town

Posted on October 10, 2015 by Campaign Outsider

Full disclosure: The hardworking staff has been a Made Yankee Fan in Boston for over 40 years. And for almost all of them, we’ve contended that people here are not baseball fans. They’re Red Sox fans. Exhibit Umpteen: It’s 11:50 … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged ESPN radio, Jacob deGrom, Los Angeles Dodgers, Made Yankee Fan in Boston, New York Mets, NLDS, WEEI | 5 Comments

Good Grey Lady Opens the Kimono: NYT Must Monetimes Itself

Posted on October 9, 2015 by Campaign Outsider

Yesterday’s New York Times reported that today’s New York Times Company is all about show me the monetize! The New York Times Company Outlines a Strategy to Double Its Digital Revenue The New York Times Company released a strategy memo … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Dean Baquet, Good Grey Lady, Manny Fernandez, Mark Thompson, monetimes itself, New York Times, Peter Baker, Ravi Somaiya, Times Insider | 1 Comment

Norman Mailer Had Hillary Clinton Down Cold 20 Years Ago

Posted on October 6, 2015 by Campaign Outsider

Yesterday the dustupping staff happened upon Norman Mailer’s essay Clinton and Dole: The War of the Oxymorons, which ran in the cuppa coffee George magazine, and came across this digression about Hillary Rodham Clinton at the 1996 Democratic National Convention … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 1996 Democratic National Convention, Clinton and Dole: The War of the Oxymorons, Dustup 2016, George magazine, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Norman Mailer, The Bubba | 2 Comments

Slowest Loading News Site? Boston.com(atose)

Posted on October 3, 2015 by Campaign Outsider

Ad blockheads are all the rage in tech news these days in the wake of Apple’s introduction of ad blockers for its mobile devices. And now you can add New York Times Tech Fix guy Brian X. Chen to the roll call. Testing … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged ad blockers, Ad blockheads, Apple, boston.com, Boston.com(atose), Brian X. Chen, iPhone, New York Times, pause that redresses, Tech Fix, top 50 news websites | 2 Comments

Dead Blogging ‘My Fair Lady’ at the Lyric Stage

Posted on October 1, 2015 by Campaign Outsider

Well the Missus and I trundled downtown last night to see the Lyric Stage production of My Fair Lady and say, it was . . . fabulous. (Bet you thought I was gonna say “loverly.” Well, it was that too.) … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Alan Jay Lerner, Alfred P. Doolittle, Amanda Dehnert, Christopher Chew, Colonel Pickering, Eliza Doolittle, Frederick Loewe, George Bernard Shaw, Henry Higgins, J.T. Turner, Jennifer Ellis, Lyric Stage Company of Boston, Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, Melissa Errico, My Fair Lady, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Playbill, Pygmalion, Remo Airaldi, Richard Chamberlain, Terry Teachout, TKTS booth, Wall Street Journal | 1 Comment