Monthly Archives: August 2017

NYT’s ‘New York City Haiku’ Has Nothing on Félix Fénéon

Posted on August 28, 2017 by Campaign Outsider

A few months ago the New York Times ran a New York City in 17 Syllables contest, soliciting haikus (three lines of five, seven and five syllables) about the Big Town. For National Poetry Month, The New York Times asked … Continue reading →

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Rarer Than the Eclipse! Wall Street Journal Runs Ad in NYT!

Posted on August 21, 2017 by Campaign Outsider

Here’s something else you’ll see about once every hundreds years: The Wall Street Journal taking out a full-page ad in the Sunday New York Times.   The hardsipping staff  has no idea how many Times readers will discover the WSJwine … Continue reading →

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Dead Blogging ‘It’s Alive!’ at the Peabody Essex Museum

Posted on August 17, 2017 by Campaign Outsider

Well the Missus and I trundled up to Salem yesterday to catch It’s Alive! Classic Horror and Sci-Fi Art from the Kirk Hammett Collection (through November 26) at PEM and say, it was scary good. Kirk Hammett, best known as the guitarist … Continue reading →

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Is ‘Trump TV’ Really All That Different From ‘Obama TV’?

Posted on August 8, 2017 by Campaign Outsider

There’s been a fair amount of pearl clutching the past few days over the “Real News” videos that TrumpWorld has just started cranking out. The debut edition appeared on Donald Trump’s Facebook page last week and featured First (or Second) Daughter-in-Law … Continue reading →

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