Archives for October 2005

Few if any bloggers have flattened Judy Miller’s tires with more gusto than David Ehrenstein, and so what if he can’t spell. Witness Thoroughly Postmodern Miller, from earlier this week, and today’s Random Thoughts and Unanswered Questions (a detailed enterprise), or yesterday’s Bill Keller’s Surprising Admission (wanner still). Even so, she has gotten off some […]

Do you mean to say that Tom Friedman has written a Since you can’t read the column online unless you have access to subscribers-only his point is timely, today especially. And finally, this reaction from another delegate member, the editor of a new Iraq newspaper, as he watched the rehearsed videoconference between the Bullshitter-in-Chief and […]

You had to “The Torture Question,” documenting more clearly than ever Except that Schlesinger’s analogy, however well intended, fails to communicate what really happened, and how far up the chain of command responsibility went. No mystery there, of course. It went right to the very top. Today you can join the discussion, which is available […]

Everybody’s talking — OK, not everybody, just us savvy media folks — about the the trouble with mergers, from The Economist (1994). Our second choice is the one by Maira Kalman and Rick Meyerowitz mapping the post-9/11 country of der Spiegel online.) –Tireless Staff of Thousands EmailFacebookTwitterReddit

Susan Feeney Fleet, trumpet player and feminist extraordinaire, lives in Metairie, La., in an apartment complex owned by the Archdiocese of New Orleans, which is about to evict her and all her neighbors, despite what she terms “livable” conditions and only minor flood damage. She saw Fleet, whose gorgeous playing is recorded on “A band […]

We weren’t the only ones who noticed. We just noticed sooner. So our question is: Is Frank Rich reading us? If so, there’s no crime in that. Hi Frank. We like the idea.

John Simon says he would have given Harold Pinter three Nobels in one — Radar magazine’s online Kulture Klub, the notorious Mr. Nasty, right, objects to

And now for a change of pace. . . . Three Poems (for Dick Wold)— Norman O. Mustill — Tireless Staff of Thousands Postscript: Should’ve mentioned that “Three Poems” was originally published 31 years ago in a collection of avant-garde artworks, “a great big diary” rather than an anthology, called the “Flypaper” (Beach Books, Texts […]

British writer The Swedish Academy notes that in his plays he “uncovers the precipice under everyday prattle and forces entry into oppression’s closed rooms.” The academy made no mention of the Watch the announcement in six languages: Norwegian, Swedish, English, French, German and Russian. The academy’s prattle does not come in Chinese, Japanese, Spanish or […]

Looking through some old correspondence from many years ago, I came across a letter to the poet I gunned the old VW to Italy. I knew where my brass was. Before I checked in I’d stashed it in its custom leather holder under my right arm. I’m a lefty. It must’ve weighed nearly two pounds. […]

In his “flying off the shelves,” The New York Times reports, and “some stores already have reported shortages” — with Is

Murray Waas explains it all for you. Next comes Karl Rove, Postscript: “Lawyers familiar with the investigation believe that at least part of the outcome likely hangs on the inner workings of what has been dubbed the White House Iraq Group.” EmailFacebookTwitterReddit

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Brooding Vincent van Gogh. Sunny David Hockney. Two artists who could not be more different. Two artists separated by temperament and time, by style and technology. Yet both are united by their belief in the power of drawing. the Getty quotes him about his photocollage, “Pearblossom Hwy., 11 – 18th April 1986, #1,” above left, […]

We call it the It featured family photo from Didion’s private collection, and “The Year of Magical Thinking.” Couple all that with cover story of The New York Times Magazine (on Sept. 25) — an 8,500-word excerpt from the book (which we liked very much) — and it gives us an inkling that Joan is […]

We didn’t intend to take the week off. But it turns out that’s what happened. There was no particular reason, except a touch of blog fatigue, which was regrettable because we missed posting the BBC saga about the divine inspiration that led to the invasion of Iraq. press release, then as failure of nerve. That […]