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Author Archives: Campaign Outsider
NYC Cops Have Sharp(ton) Words for Mayor Bill de Blasio
It’s DEFCON 4 between the NYPD and Bill de Blasio. Exhibit Umpteen: This full-page ad in yesterday’s New York Times. Money grafs: Got that? – demagogues, anti-safety political opportunists, blowhards . . . Al Sharpton, c’mon down! (See also Tawana … Continue reading
Round Midnight at the Global Worldwide Headquarters (Thelonious Monk Edition)
First in a series of live music performances the hardwatching staff has enjoyed (via YouTube) at end of day The hardworking staff has taken to watching music videos before bedtime, so we’ve decided to share some of them with you, … Continue reading
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Tagged 1966, Ben Riley, Charlie Rouse, Larry Gales, Norway, Round Midnight, Thelonious Monk
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Quote o’ the Day (Robert Capa War Correspondent Edition)
From the Weekend Wall Street Journal’s Review section: “For a war correspondent to miss an invasion is like refusing a date with Lana Turner.” – Robert Capa Sadly, Lana Turner is dead. H.D.S. Greenway, on the other hand, is very … Continue reading
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Tagged Behind the Front, Craig Gibson, Doonesbury, Foreign Correspondent, Garry Trudeau, H.D.S. Greenway, James Foley, Lana Turner, Margaret Asquith's Great War Diary 1914-1916, Martin Rubin, Review, Robert Capa, Roger Lowenstein, Stephen Brumwell, Vietnam, Wall Street Journal, World War I
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Dead Blogging ‘Circus’ at RISD Museum
Well the Missus and I trundled down to Providence yesterday to catch Circus at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum and, say, it was swell. For starters, there was the exhibit itself. The spectacle of the American and European … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Calder, Alison Chang, August Lehrecke, Chifferobe Events, Circus, Design the Night, Dizzy the Clown, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri Matisse, James-Jacques-Joseph Tissot, Kristen Minsky, Kylie Why, Marc Chagall, Matthew Muller, Max Beckmann, Paul Carpentier, Pneuhaus, Rhode Island School of Design, RISD, The TropiGals
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What Do You Want the First Line of Your Obituary to Be?
The hardworking staff found itself reading a variety of obituaries of former Vermont U.S. Sen. James Jeffords yesterday, all of which featured similar ledes. Washington Post: James M. Jeffords, the maverick Vermont politician who in 2001 gave Democrats a short-lived majority … Continue reading
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Tagged Jim Jeffords, MBTA GeezerCard, New York Times, obituary, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post
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Correction o’ the Day (Bald Eagle Poop Edition)
Correction on today’s New York Times op-ed page: An Op-Ed essay on Monday described bald eagles and ospreys incorrectly. They eat fish, and their poop is white; they do not eat berries and excrete purple feces. (Other birds, like American robins, … Continue reading
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Tagged bald eagles, correction, Jennifer Finney Boylan, New York Times, ospreys
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Headline o’ the Day (Uber All Is Edition)
From Valley Wag (tip o’ the pixel to Politico Playbook): People Keep Getting Into Strangers’ Cars Because They Think It’s An Uber Backtrack story: Just because Uber’s motto is “Everyone’s private driver,” doesn’t mean every car is yours for the hailing. … Continue reading
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Tagged Ashwin Deshmukh, Gawker, Lyft, Politico Playbook, Uber, Valley Wag, Williamsburg
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Time Inc. Writers: Be Advertiser Friendly – Or Else!
The hardtracking staff has noted on numerous occasions Time Inc.’s pimping out its editorial content to advertisers. Now comes Exhibit Umpteen, via Gawker. Time Inc. Rates Writers on How “Beneficial” They Are to Advertisers Time Inc. has fallen on hard … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony Napoli, CEO Joe Ripp, Gawker, Henry Luce, Italian fascism, Newspaper Guild, Sneak ADtack, Sports Illustrated, Time Inc.
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Ask Dr. Ads: Seriously, Is Tom Steyer Crazy?
[Aditor’s note: As you might – or more likely might not – have noticed, Dr. Ads has been (in)conspicuous by his absence over the past several months. We’d rather not get into the details; let’s just say he’s been under … Continue reading
NYT Ad/News Vortex (Korean Ferry Disaster Edition)
From our Coincidence Not Irony desk Sunday’s New York Times featured this collision of viewpoints on last April’s South Korean ferry tragedy that took hundreds of young lives. First, this full-page ad on Page 5 (New England Edition). … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, Cathoholic Czar, John L. Allen Jr., New York Times, Pope Francis, Sewold Act, South Korea
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