Things added in September, 2007
26/25
Thanks to everyone who showed up to Solly's last night to fete me and Brian Beutler. I can't speak for Brian but I'm really--I'll just resort to this word--blessed to have so ...
While on the other hand…
My enthusiasm is dampened by my total inability to finish articles - or more accurately, queries on articles. I was sort of entertaining the notion of grabbing dinner with friends tonight but ...
Innocence Lost
Today's my birthday, I'm checking who else was born on 9/26, and in addition to the old faves - Gershwin, Springsteen - I see this is the 20th anniversary of "Chucklevision." Q: ...
I get results
This post went up like 10 minutes after I sent out the Brian + Dave birthday evite. Garance raises an issue I grapple with sometimes, too. If a friend of yours ...
Like the wind
As a congenitally slow writer, my hat's off to William Kristol. My back-of-the-envelope calculation is that he's writing one paragraph slamming Mahmoud Ahmadinejad every 54 seconds.
Take your guns to town
Since Matt and Megan posted their pics, I'll go and steal Matt Ficke's Pulitzer-worthy shot. The consensus is that I "looked creepy." [Correction: it's more that I looked "badass" or "like ...
Confidential
At the end of a long fun day I'm already sort of regretting (I can write 3000 words on a Sunday, right?) I run into a casual acquaintance who I once shared ...
Weigel on your internet TV
So, this is odd. Based on a blog post I wrote asking what was so wrong with Iran's president visiting Ground Zero an upstate New York TV station had me on to ...
Give the people what they don’t want
I just now am seeing Rasmussen's pre-Emmy poll on which shows Americans wanted to win awards. In both the drama and comedy categories, the least popular shows won. In a happy ...
Trivi-aaaaaah
Fun tonight, but since I work for a magazine that ran a cover story on Wikipedia I'm sort of amazed we went 6 for 10 on a "Wikipedia round."