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Stuff about Fluff
Behold....all you folks that grew up thinking Kennedy talked funny...the Fluffernutter. Contrary to what you might have thought as you watched me eat this sandwich icon and politely said, "I'll pass"...it is the Best. Sandwich. Ever.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Elsewhere: Movie Jargon Preservation - Schott’s Vocab Blog - NYTimes.com
Elsewhere: Movie Jargon Preservation - Schott’s Vocab Blog - NYTimes.com
I'd like some feedback on this movie jargon...does it ring true, or does it ring like your dad visited some showbiz guys and picked up some odd expressions and loves using them out of context?
I will say, that "The Rake Bit" is a Simpsons standard...Homer wouldn't be funny without it.
I'd like some feedback on this movie jargon...does it ring true, or does it ring like your dad visited some showbiz guys and picked up some odd expressions and loves using them out of context?
I will say, that "The Rake Bit" is a Simpsons standard...Homer wouldn't be funny without it.
Thursday, March 26, 2009
New NYT Blog for Wordies
This is going to be delicious. A Primer on new or unfamiliar terms buzzing around because of current events.
Interview without Coffee
Maybe I just love the irony of brusque military-speak paired with droll British humor.
Interview without Coffee
Maybe I just love the irony of brusque military-speak paired with droll British humor.
Echos from Email
This sounds like something I read in a Saylor email once or twice. Who is keeping track of the predictions and prognostications of our "experts" and rating them on the ONE thing we value them for...their expertise?
Sounds like a great idea for a blog. You 'd need three groups of staffers to watch CNN, FOX, and MSNBC all day, and then probably 1 or 2 more to read and highlight the major editorials. From this you could glean a pundit's position, evaluate it's consistency (i.e. have the changed their tune to suit the reality on the ground) with perhaps a mitigating "mea culpa" factor for honest mind-changers, and then follow up on the positions as concensus forms around an issue.
You could rank them numerically and begin to weed out the dopes.
Foxes and Hedgehogs
Sounds like a great idea for a blog. You 'd need three groups of staffers to watch CNN, FOX, and MSNBC all day, and then probably 1 or 2 more to read and highlight the major editorials. From this you could glean a pundit's position, evaluate it's consistency (i.e. have the changed their tune to suit the reality on the ground) with perhaps a mitigating "mea culpa" factor for honest mind-changers, and then follow up on the positions as concensus forms around an issue.
You could rank them numerically and begin to weed out the dopes.
Foxes and Hedgehogs
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Geithner-Fu
I read an interesting analysis of the Geithner plan over at Ezra Klein's blog and it conforms with everything I've said about the "wait for it" factor with Obama.
In a nutshell, it took Geithner 6 weeks to come up with this plan not because he didnt know how to fix it, but because Obama is a master politician and needed to overlay a complex set of political imperatives over a very gnarly financial problem.
It's a Public song in the key of Private enterprise, with the Nationalization-ettes as backup singers.
Check out the theory...I'm willing to buy it for now.
In a nutshell, it took Geithner 6 weeks to come up with this plan not because he didnt know how to fix it, but because Obama is a master politician and needed to overlay a complex set of political imperatives over a very gnarly financial problem.
It's a Public song in the key of Private enterprise, with the Nationalization-ettes as backup singers.
Check out the theory...I'm willing to buy it for now.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
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