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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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mimigoliath
11/30/09

In reply to 'Twitter' Is Word of Sexless Year
I think Twitter is one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse, but I would have expected the verb form, "tweet," to be the so-called "top word." Isn't Twitter a brand name? At least Google has been turned into a verb. Aren't we celebrating the related human activity that Twitter promotes and not the actual thing? Unless they just think Twitter is the verb. Am I overthinking this? Can we spend the next 20 minutes conjugating?
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Magister
11/30/09

Can we spend the next 20 minutes conjugating?

@mimigoliath: If we can do it in 140 characters or less.
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sweetpickles
11/25/09

In reply to Martha Stewart Caught in Bed With Big Government
Do magazines think people want to wait for their regurgitated content on a monthly basis again? No. They do not. Silly magazines. You're going to have to offer people subscriptions to a bunch of your sites. And not .pdfs.
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momof3wildkids
11/25/09

In reply to Martha Stewart Caught in Bed With Big Government
From the looks of the picture, Martha Stewart is in bed with something other than the State Dept.

With that stick, it is no wonder she doesn't need a man.
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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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OliversArmy
11/23/09

In reply to Carl Kasell Escapes NPR News Gig Alive
I just pulled a chicken from the the freezer for dinner tomorrow night. Every year friends and I raise chickens in the summer. And then in the fall, after 3 months of living a life of grass-scratching and grub eating the chickens are killed, dipped, plucked and gutted. I would like to think that it was a happy life, but I don't know, I am not a chicken.

We dressed the chickens two weeks ago. That day dawned bright and beautiful. Cool, but not too cold. And later, warm, but not too hot. It was the kind of day that fooled the honeybees into coming out of their hives one last time before winter, only to learn one of lifes lessons: there is no nectar on a dead chicken carcass.

Today is a completely different kind of day. My patch of earth is covered in the slate grey of late November. It's the kind of day that reminds you that winter is coming. On days like this I often wonder what it is like to be an editor at media-centered gossip blog. Did they spend the last three months living the chicken life, scratching at the grass and eating the grubs that city life has to offer? Are they doing what they can to prepare for winter? Do they even know that winter is coming? Does Hamilton Nolan want one of my chickens?
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If_I_Had_a_Poodle
11/23/09

In reply to Carl Kasell Escapes NPR News Gig Alive
Verlyn Klinkenborg must have photos of the entire NYT board and barnyard animals.
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Tart of Darkness
11/24/09

@If_I_Had_a_Poodle: WIN!
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dmerc
11/23/09

In reply to Carl Kasell Escapes NPR News Gig Alive
Question for the masses: If you were to win Carl Kasell's voice for your home answering machine; what would you have him say?
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contradicto
11/23/09

@dmerc: When I won it, and, yes, I have won it, I made him do his lady voice.
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Dictator for Life
11/23/09

@dmerc: One of the winners a couple of weeks ago is a good friend of my fiancé. I keep trying to get my fiancé to call his friend when he knows he's not gonna answer, but he hasn't done it yet. I have no clue what I would ask him to say on my home answering machine, but I think a clip show of all his messages would be a great idea.
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Baroness
11/23/09

@contradicto: Did you really?? Brilliant, especially the lady-voice.
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contradicto
11/23/09

@Baroness: His lady voice is awesome.
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Juancho
11/23/09

In reply to Carl Kasell Escapes NPR News Gig Alive
In celebration, Steve Inskeep left a naughty messge as Carl's outgoing message on his answering machine.
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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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