Well-written Sappy Love Story

Always nice to read one once in a while :)

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/08/fashion/08love.html?pagewanted=2&em



Idiom of the moment:


'ONCE BITTEN, TWICE SHY'.... is me.

What talents

If you just go to this website and then click on related links, you will end up sitting in awe for a good two hours. I guarantee. Violin concertos, oh how you give me shivers.

LOL

The Onion is very awesome.


http://www.theonion.com/content/news/chipotle_employee_just_gave_guy_in

"CHIPOTLE—In a lunchtime incident significant enough to warrant you pause, an employee at the fast food Mexican restaurant Chipotle has just dispensed to you a smaller serving of rice than the customer ahead of you."...

c'est trop cool

http://villageofjoy.com/amazing-3d-sidewalk-art/

follow up site after looking at aforementioned site: http://polizeros.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/03/julian-beever.jpg


good site to look at when bored in general: http://villageofjoy.com/

Oops, it's been a while

THE article of the day: Presidents' Prose, and a detailed look at Obama's
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123154076720569453.html

Very expensive tuna.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123154398110769541.html

Wall Street Frat
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123206847829188365.html

On president's ability to write and be in office
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123154076720569453.html

Found some more good ones!

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/17/opinion/17kenney.html?em

IN France, of course, it’s a waffle. Throw a waffle at someone and you have said, in essence: “I loathe you. You are scum. Your people are donkey traders.” It suggests that the target is even lower than a waffle, which is sometimes on the ground if it happens to fall off a plate, and the ground could be dirty, depending upon the ground.



http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/18/business/18pay.html?pagewanted=3&em

Lovely.

"Critics say bonuses never should have been so big in the first place, because they were based on ephemeral earnings. These people contend that Wall Street’s pay structure, in which bonuses are based on short-term profits, encouraged employees to act like gamblers at a casino — and let them collect their winnings while the roulette wheel was still spinning..."

"Salaries were merely play money — a pittance compared to bonuses."

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/18/business/media/18bureaus.html?em

Media orgs are closing down their Wash. bureaus and cutting back on nat'l coverage due to lowered profits at a time when fed gov't news and journalistic oversight matter most.

"The times may be news-rich, but newspapers are cash-poor, facing their direst financial straits since the Depression."

Some articles I've extracted in the last few days

What it feels like to always write about a perpetual war...


Cool birthday present for Upper East Side runner

The Demise of Dating

A snippet: "Under the old model, you dated a few times and, if you really liked the person, you might consider having sex. Under the new model, you hook up a few times and, if you really like the person, you might consider going on a date."

Crunks 2008: The Year in Media Errors and Corrections

A snippet: "In yesterday’s column about badminton, I misspelled the name of Guatemalan player Kevin Cordon. I apologize. In my defense, I want to note that in the same column I correctly spelled Prapawadee Jaroenrattanatarak, Poompat Sapkulchananart and Porntip Buranapraseatsuk. So by the time I got to Kevin Cordon, my fingers were exhausted." -Dave Barry



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