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Newspaper eschatology
From the Atlantic: The collapse of daily print journalism will mean many things. For those of us old enough to still care about going out on a Sunday morning for our doorstop edition of The Times, it will mean the end of a certain kind of civilized ritual that has defined most of our adult […]
The Wire’s graveyard
An intrepid Baltimore photographer/blogger recently discovered that the soundstage for HBO’s The Wire was still standing and within 24 hours was in the dark soon-to-be demolished building firing away with his camera. Click HERE to see the intriguing but bittersweet photographs from his exploration. (Hat Tip: Slash Film)
The team some voters didn’t bother to watch
Even by the absurd standards of the BCS, having voters not bother to watch an undefeated team play a single game is a new low. Whether Utah deserved to be ranked No. 1, 2 or 25 isn’t the point of this argument. The Utes deserved to have voters at least see them. –Dan Wetzel
Good work if you can ride a bull
No sport packs as much into eight seconds as bull riding. In Baltimore, the winner, Kasey Hayes, rode for 24 seconds and earned $28,370. That is a pay rate of more than $4.25 million an hour — as if anyone could ride the 1,500-pound likes of Chief of Staff, Walk the Line or El Presidente […]
LEGO album covers
A group of Flickr users that appear to be pretty partial to British music has started a photo pool of album covers reimagined Lego style. Click HERE to see a lot more from where the above Lego-fied Belle and Sebastian and The Smiths album covers came.
Star-Ledger born to run
When I was starting out as a cub reporter for the company that owns the Newark, N.J., Star-Ledger, I would tell people my paper was on the bottom of the company’s Ledger-anchored totem poll. I didn’t mind admitting that because the Ledger was such a great paper and, well, my dinky paper was pretty much the exact opposite. […]
Baseball teams take a cue from Blago
Embattled Illinois Gov. Rod Blogojevich gave a figurative middle finger to the choir of voices calling for him to step down today by naming a Senate successor to President-Elect Barack Obama. Unsurprisingly, the person Blago named isn’t Bob Evans, the director of operations for the Quad Cities River Bandits, but you can’t blame the team […]
Mega-church, heli-port
Apparently, an hour drive is sometimes just too far for a couple of mega-church pastors in Washington State to make. According to an article in the Tacoma News-Tribune, the Christian Faith Center in Federal Way recently received approval to construct a helicopter landing pad. The landing pad is reportedly needed for ego-inflated co-pastors Casey and […]