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Monthly Archives: October 2016
Glenn (Not Even) Close in Ad for ‘Sunset Boulevard’ Revival
Back in 1994, the Missus and I trundled down to New York to catch the final performance of Glenn Close in the Broadway production of Sunset Boulevard. As we settled into our seats, this announcement came over the PA system: … Continue reading
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Tagged Glenn Close, New York Times, Sunset Boulevard, The Missus
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Another $cheme From Six Flags Over New York Times
The hardworking staff recently noted the various financial sidelines the New York Times has launched lately to boost sagging revenues. There’s the Times Journeys travel agency and the Times Store retail outlet, both of which have profited from full-page ads in the … Continue reading
‘Pay It Backward’ Is a Time-Honored Government Gambit
The federal clawback is back – this time for the California National Guard. From Saturday’s Los Angeles Times: Thousands of California soldiers forced to repay enlistment bonuses a decade after going to war Short of troops to fight in Iraq … Continue reading
NYT = Now You Travel (Instead of Reading)
Interesting piece by Suzanne Vranica and Jack Marshall in the Wall Street Journal the other day about newspapers chasing alternative revenue sources in the face of knee-buckling advertising losses. Plummeting Newspaper Ad Revenue Sparks New Wave of Changes With global newspaper … Continue reading
Conservative Magazine Says ‘Bill Belichick for President!’
Throughout the 2016 presidential campaign, The Weekly Standard has been a standard-bearing Dump Trump hardliner. But in the magazine’s October 17th issue, contributor Geoffrey Norman proposes an actual alternative. A Real Winner Come November, I’m writing in Bill Belichick Variations on the … Continue reading
A Conversation Between Donald Trump and Abraham Lincoln
DONALD TRUMP (at a rally in Anytown, USA): Believe me, we’re going to build a beautiful Republican Party after this election – and , believe me, the Democrats will pay for it – and it will be a tremendous new … Continue reading
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Tagged @realdonaldtrump, Abraham Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln Online, Donald J. Trump
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Positively 231st Street: Bob Dylan, the Bronx, and Me
In the summer of 1966, the Jack & Agnes Carrolls misguidedly moved from 89th and Third in Manhattan to Brookview Road in Windsor, CT – a town that lacked virtually everything, including sidewalks. I did not go with them. Hell, I … Continue reading
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Tagged Absolutely Sweet Marie, Blonde on Blonde, Bob Dylan, Boston Globe, Dan Kennedy, Designated Tsker, Fourth Time Around, Jo Schneider, John Lennon, Media Nation, Melbourne 1966, Mike Hogan, Misericordia Hospital, Nobel Prize in Literature, Norwegian Wood, Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands, Tsk Six, Ty Burr, Vanity Fair, Visions of Johanna
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Civilians Who Run Full-Page Ads in the New York Times (Umpteenth Plus Two Yoko Ono Edition)
From our Late to the Peace Party edition Over the years, the hardworking staff has dutifully chronicled the must-by-now-be-a-million-dollars Yoko Ono has spent on full-page ads in the New York Times. (Umpteenth here, Umpteenth Plus One here.) Now comes yet … Continue reading
Xavier University Hits #1 in Higher Education Rankings!
But first . . . The hardwatching staff knows it should join the rest of the chinstrokerati in commenting on last night’s presidential debate, so we’ll venture these few observations. 1. We really need a shower. 2. Anderson Cooper and … Continue reading
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Tagged Anderson Cooper, Best Colleges, chinstrokerati, CNN Money, Denzel Washington, Dominos, Donald J. Trump, Hillary Clinton, Jill Harth, Kellyanne Conway, Martha Raddatz, New York Times, Nicholas Kristof, Nurse Ratched, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Oxford Dictionaries, pie are round, pizza ATM, preterition, Randle McMurphy, sexual assault, Time, Trumptanic, Unstoppable, Unstoppable II
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