Hope you like your job

… because there’s not going to be much hiring next year, E&P reports. And I just love this part: Companies “see some improving advertising trends right now,” and that keeps them from continuing to downsize, said Kevin Gruneich, newspaper analyst…

I got yer instant art, pal

Maud Newton links to story about “crap art,” which is described as follows. Carnegie Mellon University graduate student Tom Murphy challenges musicians to write, record and mix an entire album in one 24-hour period “preferably with no sleep breaks in-between.”…

A day at the beach

Why Mondo Winkie’s family is probably not like yours: We all had been making merry (drinking a lot) and my granddad, dad and I decide to go walk on the beach. Yes, the mid-Atlantic beach is cold during Christmastime, but…