Tag Archives: The Missus

New York Times Published a Co-bituary of Lee Radziwill

Posted on February 19, 2019 by Campaign Outsider

Not to say that this has never happened before, but Sunday was the first time we’d ever seen if (tip o’ the pixel to The Missus). Robert D. McFadden’s full-page sendoff of Lee Radziwill in Sunday’s New York Times started out … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Anna Christina Radziwill, Aristotle Onassis, co-bituary, Jacqueline Kennedy, Lee Radziwill, New York Times, Robert D. McFadden, The Missus | 3 Comments

Some Serious Editorial Mishegas at the Wall Street Journal

Posted on June 6, 2018 by Campaign Outsider

WTF, WSJ? First, there’s Kali Hays’s piece in yesterday’s WWD (tip o’ the pixel to The Missus). WSJ Reorganization Continues as Editors Reapply for Positions The Wall Street Journal has been slowing moving forward with its restructuring. The Wall Street Journal is … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged desk editors, Gerard Baker, Kali Hays, Lloyd Grove, Maxwell Tani, News Corp, The Daily Beast, The Missus, Wall Street Journal, WSJ 2020, WWD | Leave a comment

Wall Street Journal Dads Who Play Barbie

Posted on February 19, 2017 by Campaign Outsider

From our Changing the Culture Is Hard! desk Just call her Totally Daddy’s Barbie. Full-page ad in Friday’s Wall Street Journal: Fun! The Dads Who Play Barbie website features videos like this one. Important! Popular! … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged #DADSWHOPLAYBARBIE, CULTURE CHANGE IS HARD!, James Gandolfini, Macy's Day parade, The Missus, Totally Daddy's Barbie, Totally Wet Barbie, Wall Street Journal | Leave a comment

Glenn (Not Even) Close in Ad for ‘Sunset Boulevard’ Revival

Posted on October 31, 2016 by Campaign Outsider

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 →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Glenn Close, New York Times, Sunset Boulevard, The Missus | Leave a comment

Ben Carson Is So Desperate He’s Sending Mash Notes to Me

Posted on January 12, 2016 by Campaign Outsider

So what’s so strange about GOP presidential hopeful Ben Carson (R-Pyramid Scheme) romancing a person such as I? Just that I have a) been a registered independent for almost 40 years and b) never voted in a Republican primary all … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Ben Carson, Carson robocall, Jerry Sickles, lithograph, Prose Muzak, Ted Cruz, The Missus, WMUR, world's oldest altar boy | Leave a comment

NYT’s Boston Hemingway Piece Features Wrong Wife

Posted on February 12, 2014 by Campaign Outsider

Ernest Hemingway is the Moveable Feast of American literature. And the latest entrée comes from Tuesday’s New York Times. A Mutable Feast Batch of Hemingway Ephemera From Cuba Is Digitized BOSTON — Ernest Hemingway was a hoarder. His own prose … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged A Mutable Feast, Charles McGrath, Ernest Hemingway, Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center, JFK Library, Martha Gellhorn, Mary Hemingway, New York Times, The Missus, Vita Paladino | Leave a comment

The Art Seen In New York (Magritte/Balthus Edition)

Posted on November 29, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

Well the Missus and I trundled down to The Big Town last weekend and say, it was swell. (After, that is, we crawled our way through the Mother-in-Law of All Traffic Jams: From the New York City line to the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 59E59 Theaters, Al Hirshfeld, Alexander Calder, All That Fall, American Modern, Balthus: Cats & Girls, Barneys New York, Calder Shadows, Cezanne, Charles Demuth, Dennis Freedman, Designing Modern Women, Dubuffet Frayeur, Eileen Atkins, Eykyn Maclean Gallery, Gauguin, I Saw the Figure Five in Gold, Interwoven Globe: The Worldwide Textile Trade, Lincoln Center Library, Magritte, Malkine Untitled 1927, Marcel Duchamp, Matisse, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Michael Gambon, MOMA, Mother-in-Law of All Traffic Jams, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, New York Times, New-York Historical Society, Nude Descending a Staircase, Picabia, Picasso, Robert Indiana: Beyond Love, Roberta Smith, S.J. Perelman, Samuel Beckett, Surrealism and the Rue Blomet, The Armory Show at 100, the Big Town, The Line King, The Met, The Missus, Van Gogh, Venus Over Manhattan, Westward Ha!, Whitney Museum, WWD | 5 Comments

Russel Pergament’s Jewish News Service Is Totally Old Testament

Posted on October 17, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

Several days ago the hardreading staff posted an item about the Jewish News Service running this ad in the Boston Herald but not the Boston Globe. We also said we’d try to contact JNS founder (and inveterate publishing bunny) Russel Pergament to ask, among other … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Adam Reilly, Aftonbladet, Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Boston Phoenix, Chicago Tribune, Filene's, It's Good to Live in a Two-Daily Town, Jerusalem Press, Jewish News Service, Jewish soldiers harvest Arab organs, JNS, Russel Pergament, Tab newspapers, The Missus, The New Republic | Leave a comment

That’s Just So Awkward! (NYT CEO Snubs NYT Edition)

Posted on September 6, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

(Tip o’ the pixel to the Missus) Thursday’s New York Times featured this piece on page A8: Britain Will Look at Why BBC Severance Payments Exceeded Contract Terms LONDON — When it comes to the BBC and funding that is … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged BBC, BBC Trust, House of Commons, M.C. Escher, Mark Thompson, Milton, New York Times, Public Accounts Committee, severance payments, The Missus, William Wordsworth | 1 Comment

Dr. Dre’s WSJ Two-Step

Posted on August 21, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

From our Ad/Ed Pas de Deux desk Monday’s Wall Street Journal featured this piece that reads like a press release for Beats by Dr. Dre headphones. Beats Electronics Looks to Scratch HTC The maker of the popular Beats by Dr. Dre … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged #Newbeats, Beats by Dr. Dre, Beats Electronics, BeatsbyDre.com, Dr. Dre, HTC, New York Post, the Googletron, The Guardian, The Missus, Wall Street Journal | 1 Comment