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TheBusinessGuy
12/01/09

In reply to Lewis Lapham Living The Lewis Lapham Life
Rose's column will be just like his TV show: a Rose monologue.
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shostakobitch
12/01/09

In reply to Lewis Lapham Living The Lewis Lapham Life
Lapham's an idiot. It's a trick question because your caddy hands you that 7-iron, or as it was called when Lewis graduated Yale, a "mashie-niblick."
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rmric0.wedding.photographer.and.manny
12/01/09

In reply to Lewis Lapham Living The Lewis Lapham Life
That quote is why the CIA sucked through the Cold War and beyond, well that and James Jesus Angleton.
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krismry
12/01/09

@rmric0.wedding.
photographer.and.manny:
maybe so, but Mother wasn't their problem. Their failed sense of clubbiness might have been a bigger part.
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louise
11/24/09

In reply to Time Inc's Pre-Thanksgiving Layoffs
Let's hope the SI/Fortune PTB don't follow their HBO brethren's example and have the HR head do a victory lap w/her VP showing off new mink coats purchased with their bonuses.
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dreweverett
11/24/09

In reply to Time Inc's Pre-Thanksgiving Layoffs
At least one print outlet is being "resurrected." From TPM - "Staff of the Southern Voice, a gay weekly in Atlanta and one of the handful of publications shut down abruptly by parent company Window Media last week, have received a $12,000 matching grant to start a new publication. "

Anyway, thought some good news would be in order...

[tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com]

#Tips
#The Gays
#Thingswelike
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TheBusinessGuy
11/24/09

In reply to Time Inc's Pre-Thanksgiving Layoffs
Naturally the horrible murders in the Philippines dwarfs anything else in this post--the enormity of the evil is staggering. But to deal with what my mind can wrap itself around, does anyone else remember when companies--even magazine companies--had sufficient humanity to wait until after the holidays to do layoffs? Now the objective is just to get 'em off the expense side before the new budget kicks in. I always wonder how the executioner executives can watch or read A Christmas Carol unironically.
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Pesti-Esti
11/24/09

@TheBusinessGuy: I would argue that it is still before the holidays. After what date would you no longer lay people off? November 1? Labor Day? Yeah, laying someone off on December 15 is kinda prickish, but lets get a handle on extending the holidays t0 over 15% of the year.

On the bright side, at least they were laid off before they did their shopping. In a way, it's probably better than being laid off on January 10. Not that being laid off anytime doesn't suck.
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TheBusinessGuy
11/24/09

@Pesti-Esti: I think laying someone off two days before Thanksgiving is dickish. What should be the cutoff? In the old days, it was usually November 1.

#tips
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Mediahohoho
11/24/09

@TheBusinessGuy: Fortune laid me off a couple of weeks before my wife gave birth, so I wouldn't go looking for a lot of humanity there.
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If_I_Had_a_Poodle
11/24/09

@TheBusinessGuy: +1111111111111
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If_I_Had_a_Poodle
11/24/09

@Mediahohoho: Sadz
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TheBusinessGuy
11/24/09

@Mediahohoho: Yeah, that is awful. Anytime a company refers to its employees as "our family," I reach for my pistol.

#tips
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snugbug
11/20/09

In reply to German Newspaper Feud Gets Penis-y
Did anyone else get the "Pimmel über Berlin" (Penis over Berlin) pun? It riffs on "Der Himmel über Berlin" (The Heaven over Berlin) title of that famous Wim Wenders film aka Wings of Desire.

No? Just me? OK, I'm a dork.
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BunnySkull
11/20/09

In reply to German Newspaper Feud Gets Penis-y
Now why doesn't the NYT do a Murdoch mural like that on the side of their building? These German are taking us to school on how a real editorial feud is handled.
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senatormayer
11/20/09

In reply to German Newspaper Feud Gets Penis-y
That's what trying to conquer the world does to a country. You wind up with cocks on the sides of buildings.
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Richard Petty Bourgeoisie
11/20/09

In reply to German Newspaper Feud Gets Penis-y
Also, read between the lines on the GMA item: The staffers are concerned about the show's basketball team as much as anything else.
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Richard Petty Bourgeoisie
11/20/09

In reply to German Newspaper Feud Gets Penis-y
Right, because cobras have hoods, just like European wieners.
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manchops
11/19/09

In reply to Rumors: Staff Shuffles at New York Post, Sports Illustrated
You wanna save Sports Illustrated? GET RID OF TERRY MCDONNELL. The guy sat at Esquire watching circulation fall through the floor, his only real talent being to spend ungodly sums of money on basically nothing and for that he ends up being promoted to SI? I swear to god, the best way to save every magazine out there? Bag the over-paid, over-spending captian of the ship and keep everyone else's jobs.
Tossing McDonnell is perhaps the best example of how this would save the industry.
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Molly Friedman
11/19/09

@manchops: Terry actually "sat at Esquire" doing just the opposite: publishing dozens of literary icons, many of whom are now in the canon thanks in part to Terry's faith in them. Talese, Mailer, McInerney, Salinger, Hunter S. Thompson, Joan Didion, Cormac McCarthy...are you kidding me?

Under Terry's editorship, Esquire was an ASME finalist SEVEN times. Just try comparing Esquire's (well-documented recently by DiGiacomo in VF) pathetic fiction to the work Terry accomplished back then.

@Immaculate:
1) Jann promoted Terry because he earned that ME position.
2) "Personal habits"? You're actually chastising someone who worked at Rolling Stone under Wenner in the early 80s for having fun?
3) Jann and Terry, to this day, are close friends. If Terry stole anything from Jann, it was a series of classic Hunter S. Thompson anecdotes due to the fact that HST adored Terry and wasn't so fond of Jann.
4) Nick writes his own novels. Terry is (and will proudly admit it) an editor, not a writer. And an effing legendary one, who works seven days a week, has completely revived si.com (who do you think oversaw the CNN partnership?), and most importantly, a gentleman.

Jealousy doesn't justify idiotic, ignorant bashing of someone you clearly know nothing about.
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Rozelle’s Bagman
11/13/09

In reply to Jack Welch —
Suzy cream cheese? #jackwelch
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Ima_letchu_finish
11/13/09

In reply to Jack Welch —
Yeah....cause Suzy ran dry....but they do make a cream for that. #jackwelch
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crookedE
11/13/09

In reply to BizWeek Geeks Tell Chic Money Honey, 'You're Done-y'
Have you noticed her styling lately? she always shows up on Morning Joe looking like she spent all night dancing on a banquette and didn't make it home to comb her hair or wash her face. I believe the young people would call her a "hot mess." #businessweek
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FitnessMadeSimple
11/13/09

@crookedE: A hot mess is still hot. #businessweek
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pooks
11/13/09

@crookedE: There used to be a chart on the web that traders could use to predict the market's activity each day based on the appearance of Maria's cowlicks on CNBC. #mariabartiromo
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momof3wildkids
11/13/09

@crookedE: You are right... the last time I saw her on Morning Joe it looked like she was doing the 'walk of shame.' #mariabartiromo
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pollyannacowgirl
11/13/09

@crookedE: Lately? She's always looked like that to me. I used to yell at the TV and tell her to put some Preparation H on her baggy undereyes. #mariabartiromo
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britneyspearstears
11/13/09

@pollyannacowgirl: Does that really work? #mariabartiromo
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