Author: tom

You kids have been busy

Yesterday’s blogroll turned up a host of tasty links. Another trip through this morning reveals yet more goodies. Claire Zulkey on giving blood. Side Salad on seeing George Jones at the Florida Strawberry Festival. Some guys have all the luck.…

Another editor’s blog

Notes-to-self is the name of Cheryl Paquin’s blog. She’s an editor at a newspaper someplace but I haven’t figured it yet. She’s done scads of stuff online over the years — as a quick Google search reveals.

Steamy, aromatic blogroll

Lots o’ links today, as promised. My favorite of the morning: George Kelly attended nuptials at San Francisco City Hall yesterday. You can guess how come. (Not him, silly, he’s already married.) Doc Searls has a swell quote from Gandhi:…

Light blogging

I wore myself out blogging the Oscars last night, so I can’t get too inspired this morning. If you need an excuse to do something work-related, check out all of Liz Donovan’s weekend links. I think that’s gonna do it…

Not making excuses, but …

From the NY Times preview the book by Jayson Blair, who … admits many of his deceptions in a forthcoming memoir but writes that they were fueled by ambition, cocaine and alcohol abuse and an undiagnosed condition of manic depression.…

Winkie’s in Tokyo

Sid recounts his arrival halfway around the world: I feel kinda worldly having gone from Hurricane, W.Va., to Tokyo within 48 hours. One day I’m scrapin’ possum off the highway for dinner and the next I’m at a cozy little…

Lots o’ Haiti links

Liz Donovan has amassed a passel of them. I noticed a bunch of looters pictured on the New York Times homepage this morning, which had me picturing the exultant beneficiaries of the revolution: HER: “Soon we will be free of…

Staying on message

CJR’s Campaign Desk recounts a White House news briefing exchange that would be funny it were in a sitcom. The final tally? When discussing gay marriage McClellan employed the phrase “sacred institution” nine times during the 36-minute briefing. Close cousins…

Trudeau’s contest

E&P talks to “Doonesbury” creator G.B. Trudeau about his offer of 10 grand to anybody who can prove Bush served in the Guard while working on a political campaign in Alabama. Trudeau had one more comment about the contest: “We’re…