Hans Eisenbeis Maybe it’s in the air, I dunno. But I’m hoping yesterday’s storms–seen to be literally a wall of brown out the windows of Bunker’s–cleared about ten days’ worth of bad karma. You know, an accumulation of weird breakdowns, bad communication, minor automotive hiccups, moving violations, unspeakable regression, birds gathering in strange symmetric formations on top … Read more
Sid Hartman’s in a bit of hot water over at the Strib, and we’re not talking jaccuzzi time. Sid is evidently of the opinion that certain silly ethics rules don’t apply to him–and it will be interesting to see how (or even whether) his editors manage to slap the old duffer’s wrists. Kate Parry is … Read more
There’s an interesting article on product placement in this week’s Business Week (via Romenesko, naturally). But not product placement like you know and love it–we’re talking product placement in the edit space of magazines. Toyota Corporation apparently approached Hearst, Conde Nast, and Meredith and asked executives to consider “product integration” in their pages. The thing … Read more
We are tearing through the cabbage patch today, putting together the next issue,but we thought you might be interested in this over at MnSpeak, where we appreciate the frank talk about our humble little magazine, and we’d join in the fun, but too much too much too much. Let me just say that the thread … Read more
We didn’t want to like Michael Kinsley’s little dismissal of the Downing Street Memo, but in the end you just can’t argue with reason, even if it’s coming from Wax Museum Mike. (We like Kinsley fine, we just think he should stay off TV if he can help it. With Crossfire officially gone, there is … Read more
There has developed a little cottage industry in poo-poohing the Watergate scandal–and as a corollary, actually discussing whether Deep Throat was a hero or a villain in the annals of modern American history. (We won’t link to them, but they know who they are.) This is of a piece, we suppose, with various evil revisionists … Read more
We’ve been catching up on “House” reruns, which started immediately after the season finale a couple of weeks ago. We rashly made the pronouncement that it was “the best show on TV” after seeing just half of one show. We’re willing to stick with that assessment, but it’s interesting how the show really picked up … Read more
God bless our man Chuck Haga, who like a friendly health teacher with a high beltline, a stylish combover, and a full quiver of PG-13 puns, has compiled a little refresher list of euphemisms for marijuana. Strib readers who receive their copies of the paper at their guard stations can thus be dutifully outraged today … Read more
Our friend Molly Priesmeyer notes that three key curators at the Walker Art Center have announced that they’re leaving, along with the Walker’s chief operating officer. Both WCCO (who reported the news yesterday) and Preismeyer are worried about what this might mean, and they point out the alarming cost overruns of the new digs on … Read more
A crazy day around here, but lookit: We hear Washington City Paper has decided to take their paper to the streets, in an apparent effort to staunch their lightly bleeding circulation numbers. The approach is simple: Put twenty real, live human beings on the streets handing out the paper to passersby (much as D.C.’s two … Read more