David Carr: Master of Wry Understatement
From today's New York Times 'Arts, Briefly' column:
In The Year 2000: E-mail Sites
From Linda Stasi's column in today's New York Post:
'Chicago Tribune' Guest-Edited By 'The Onion' Staff?
This is just about the funniest headline we've ever seen:
Coming Soon to Broadway: More Backward White Hats
Just what Broadway needs: another show for straight dudes. According to The New York Times:
Trivial Matters
We rarely laugh out loud at something we read on the web. In fact, we rarely laugh out loud at anything. (We live in a very dark place.) But this line from Slate brought out an unusually hearty convulsive feeling from inside of us that the Vice President would call a laugh.
Building on Brand Bradley
CNN is reporting that pro-baller and senator (and Democratic party presidential dream date) Bill Bradley has just signed up to host a show for Sirius Satellite Radio:
Tom Wolfe Speaks in Tongues
Remember Doctor Rammer Doc Doc? No? Then you must not've read Tom Wolfe's A Man In Full, which featured the improbably named rapper's threat to "peel yo cap."
Graydon On The Good Old Days
Graydon Carter remembers the late Time & Life editor-in-chief, Henry Grunwald:
We Have Seen The Future of Celebrity Journalism...
And it is word association. Greg Allen, writer/blogger behind Greg.org, offers his first impressions of the luminaries he met or saw at MoMA's Marc Forster A Work In Progress event earlier this week:
· Ryan Gosling: unexpectedly wry
· Maggie Gyllenhall: good sport, Harvard Law material
· Will Ferrell: makes even…
You Might've Heard a Thing or Two About 'Radar'
On the eve of Radar's triumphant return to the newsstand and its rightful place at the center of American life (for chic, informed, jaded but not cynical 25-39 year-old men and women of all sexual orientations, with high incomes in urban centers), Media Life Magazine interviews the Maer Roshan sound bite AI unit.
Foer Bumps Klosterman From 'NYPress' Shit List
From this week's New York Press:
Manhattan Melancholy Mystery
From today's New York Times:
Dawn Eden Update
The New York Observer catches up with Dawn Eden in 'Off the Record':
Gallagher and Dworkin: The Odd Couple
Andrea Dworkin must've left Maggie Gallagher some money in her will: how else to explain why the pay-for-play "marriage expert" would write such an elegiac column in honor of the firebrand feminist? Here's what Maggie had to say:
Tabloid Studies 101: Subliminal Story Placement
Britney's husband lives in NYC?
Well, Who The Hell Wants to Know?
The crazy thing is, you have to give your name, address, and social security number to submit.
Room 101, It Ain't: If These Walls Could Talk
Click to see a close-up of Bonnie Fuller's office door.
