Thursday Tipsheet 47
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On 'HeadHood Heavy Rotation: The Fray, How To Save A Life; Gemma Hayes, Night On My Side; Idlewild, Warnings/Promises.
Celebrating: Fans of playoff action in the National Basketball Association and National Hockey League. OK, I'm not really paying attention to them, but I assume somebody is.
Not Celebrating: Elton John, after critics sank their fangs into the Broadway debut of his musical vampire production Lestat.
Pop Culture Will Eat Itself, Vol. XLVII: The wall between politics and pop culture is already porous, but it seems even more so after the Bush Administration reached through the TV screen to name Fox News commentator Tony Snow as its new press secretary. Snow's background does includes writing speechwriter for Bush's father ... but Hardball's Chris Matthews is also a former presidential speechwriter and I don't think anyone would like to see him as a press secretary. (Or a senator from Pennsylvania, as is his rumored ambition.)
Lost: Author, activist and urbanist Jane Jacobs. Since The Death and Life of Great American Cities was a huge influence on my interest in neighborhoods, this is sad news.
Found: By Venezualen scientists, a way of preparing beans that won't give eaters flatulence. I smell Nobel Prize.
Elevator Up: To Matisyahu, the unlikely success story of a reggae rapper who is also a Hassidic Jew. And he's got serious skills, too.
Elevator Down: Former baseball star, current announcer and overall troglodyte Keith Hernandez for making derrogatory on-air comments, including I won't say women belong in the kitchen, but they don't belong in the dugout. Hmm. The 21st century is on Line 1, slugger.
Huh? Headline of the Week: Police arrest nude man stuck in chimney.
Strangest Hit: Someone surfed her by searching for shared hotel room with female co-worker. Your guess is as good as mine.
Stupid Fantasy Baseball Report: As of Thursday morning, the Nautical Disasters sat forlornly in ninth place in the Stout Fellows League.
Shoulda-Been-Obvious Lesson: Used book sales are better than dealing with textbook companies.
Franklin PlannerTM Quote of the Week: All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible. -- William Faulkner.
Looking forward to ... : Making it to the other end of this very busy week.
On 'HeadHood Heavy Rotation: The Fray, How To Save A Life; Gemma Hayes, Night On My Side; Idlewild, Warnings/Promises.
Celebrating: Fans of playoff action in the National Basketball Association and National Hockey League. OK, I'm not really paying attention to them, but I assume somebody is.
Not Celebrating: Elton John, after critics sank their fangs into the Broadway debut of his musical vampire production Lestat.
Pop Culture Will Eat Itself, Vol. XLVII: The wall between politics and pop culture is already porous, but it seems even more so after the Bush Administration reached through the TV screen to name Fox News commentator Tony Snow as its new press secretary. Snow's background does includes writing speechwriter for Bush's father ... but Hardball's Chris Matthews is also a former presidential speechwriter and I don't think anyone would like to see him as a press secretary. (Or a senator from Pennsylvania, as is his rumored ambition.)
Lost: Author, activist and urbanist Jane Jacobs. Since The Death and Life of Great American Cities was a huge influence on my interest in neighborhoods, this is sad news.
Found: By Venezualen scientists, a way of preparing beans that won't give eaters flatulence. I smell Nobel Prize.
Elevator Up: To Matisyahu, the unlikely success story of a reggae rapper who is also a Hassidic Jew. And he's got serious skills, too.
Elevator Down: Former baseball star, current announcer and overall troglodyte Keith Hernandez for making derrogatory on-air comments, including I won't say women belong in the kitchen, but they don't belong in the dugout. Hmm. The 21st century is on Line 1, slugger.
Huh? Headline of the Week: Police arrest nude man stuck in chimney.
Strangest Hit: Someone surfed her by searching for shared hotel room with female co-worker. Your guess is as good as mine.
Stupid Fantasy Baseball Report: As of Thursday morning, the Nautical Disasters sat forlornly in ninth place in the Stout Fellows League.
Shoulda-Been-Obvious Lesson: Used book sales are better than dealing with textbook companies.
Franklin PlannerTM Quote of the Week: All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible. -- William Faulkner.
Looking forward to ... : Making it to the other end of this very busy week.