December 2011
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My Top Longreads of 2011
Ah, procrastination! I knew I got into a deadline-driven business for a reason. Deadline pressure is the only antidote to procrastination, so here I am on December 31 organizing my Longreads thoughts.
I had trouble limiting myself to five stories so I did a bunch of sublists just for fun. Probably why this took me so long….
Top 4 Tech Features I Wish I’d Done
Scott Forstall, the...
November 2011
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October 2011
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August 2011
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jeremy paul gordon: Oral History of the Oral... →
airgordon:
Robert Mays (Editor, Grantland): I said to Bill, I’ve got a story idea.
Bill Simmons (Editor-in-Chief, Grantland): It was a Tuesday and I hadn’t had my coffee yet. That’s about all I remember.
RM: Friday Night Lights is ending and we should write a story about it. Something that hasn’t been…
I am a fan of the oral history story form, but it does seem to be getting a bit of...
June 2011
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February 2011
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January 2011
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December 2010
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'What It Takes': The Book that Defined Modern... →
longreads:
Richard Ben Cramer’s “What It Takes” is now widely considered the greatest modern presidential campaign book. But the judgments of Washington’s elite come late to Maryland’s remote Eastern Shore, and the book’s place in political writing has dawned only very late on its author. When it came out in the heat of the 1992 campaign, the tome dropped with a heavy thud. It was viewed as...
My Year-End Lists, Volume 1
If I’ve learned anything from my career in magazine journalism, it’s that people love lists, amiright? Of course I am. That’s why we do them. Let’s be honest: The best time for a list is at the end of the year to help us put a bow on the past 12 months and prepare us psychically to move forward for the year ahead. So to follow in that august tradition, I will be publishing...
November 2010
4 posts
This Week's Walking the Room Podcast
walkingtheroom:
#24 Candy Insanity and No Snitchen’ Ellen
Week three of my cameo in Greg & Dave’s podcast, as they open up my box of Halloween candy on air! And then once that’s done, they have their best podcast segment ever!
October 2010
4 posts
The Most Underrated Fast Company Stories in...
In celebration of Fast Company magazine’s 150th issue (and 15th anniversary), fastcompany.com published a list of the “most groundbreaking Fast Company stories.” And while I could quibble with some of these choices, I thought it would be more interesting (and career-preserving—I work at FC!) to select a few personal favorites of mine, “deep cuts” from Fast...
August 2009
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April 2009
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What's Your NPR Name?
doree:
spiegelman:
liana:
Eric and I recently discovered a shared fascination with the slew of impossibly named NPR hosts we listen to every day: Renee Montagne, Steve Inskeep, Corey Flintoff, Korva Coleman, Kai Ryssdal, Dina Temple-Raston.
In fact, we’ve often wondered what it would be like to be one of them. A Nina Totenberg or a Renita Jablonski. A David Kestenbaum or a Lakshmi Singh. ...
December 2008
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November 2008
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October 2008
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CUTE!
Via doree: via Videogum
McCain-Palin Rally Sites from here to the election
Thursday, October 30: Defiance, Ohio
Friday, October 31: Denial, Virginia (the real part); Creeptown, Pennsylvania; Wackjob-Diva-Opportunist Tri-Cities, Pennsylvania (Palin only)
Saturday, November 1: Daylong rally and picnic at Anger, Indiana campgrounds and demolition derby
Sunday, November 2: Lyeville, North Carolina; Bargaining, North Carolina
Monday, November 3: Depression, West Virginia...
September 2008
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August 2008
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More on the Mad Men Twitter dustup
doree:
I just don’t find Don Draper’s Twitter all that clever, is the thing! Maybe also because Don Draper would NEVER IN A MILLION YEARS have a Twitter. Peggy’s is better, in my opinion.
The Reuters story about the dustup brings up the important issue of fictional character law:
Many Twitter accounts are fans pretending to be fictional characters, so the “Mad Men” flap could set a...
Details to come about my night backstage at The Colbert Report with my friend Lucas Conley, author of Obsessive Branding Disorder. Note the Colbert bump: OBD is currently 1029 at Amazon.com. Yesterday it was 20,549. That’s power, folks.
Fuck the Hilton and other Hotels that Overcharge...
azizisbored:
NEVER STAY AT HILTON HOTELS.
Please re-blog and repost this.
I’d encourage anyone that reads my website to never stay at Hilton hotels, I’m staying at one in Chicago and they overcharge the fuck out of you for internet use. In the rooms, its $12.95 a night for “Basic Broadband” and it goes up to $17.95 for “Premium Broadband.” Here’s the deal, I bought the Basic one and it was...
July 2008
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Never Not Funny Podcast with special guest Greg Behrendt
Why Patton Oswalt Is a Genius
Amidst other sports-related stuff last night, but worth waiting for. From last night’s Root of All Evil. Must see. The best part starts with about 1 minute left.
(Via Awful Announcing via Deadspin) http://deadspin.com/5031352/an-ode-to-ea-grown-men-crying-and-commenters-are-the-root-of-all-evil-nsfw
In Search of Sasquatch, Marine Edition →
It's not everyday that my law degree comes in...
Nikki Finke reports on her blog that New Line is eager to do Austin Powers 4 with Mike Myers. My favorite part of the story is this nugget:
Interestingly, I’m told that Myers had a character in the original Austin Powers: International Man Of Mystery script called The Love Guru but decided not to shoot it and then wrote it out of the series. Nevertheless, when Paramount decided to make The...
June 2008
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May 2008
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I'm starting to get the feeling my friend Bill...
Somewhere, Kemmons Wilson, founder of Holiday Inn, is frowning. billbarol: Many thanks for the warm welcome you extended to me last night. I particularly admired the way you’ve chosen to conserve fuel by operating your shuttle vans on a sharply reduced schedule, and the way you’ve chosen to conserve communications bandwidth by not telling anyone. This morning’s Continental Breakfast easily...
Her supporters cheered raucously when numbers showing Clinton’s margin among...
– From a Politico.com story about last night’s Clinton victory in the West Virginia primary. Of course, this being West Virginia, the cheering could have been for their first exposure to electricity and the “flying pictures through the air” of television. Saw the same thing happen...
Finally
David Lipsky added you as a friend on Facebook. We need to confirm that you know David in order for you to be friends on Facebook. David says, “Because shouldn’t we be? At long last?” To confirm this friend request, follow the link below: http://www.facebook.com/n/?reqs.php Thanks, The Facebook Team For all those years where my name has been transmogrified into his, I accepted...
Official U.S. Drinking Holidays
Walking to the gym last night, I saw two women carrying colorful sombreros, which made me realize that when Cinco de Mayo falls on a Monday, Cinco de Mayo (observed) is the previous Saturday. (The effect was somewhat ruined when the ladies walked into the twee sushi restaurant on my block to begin their Cinco de Mayo reverly.) Nonetheless, it reminded me to update the list of official drinking...