Here at Listen! Watch! Eat! we’re so excited for the end of the year roundup that we can hardly type. Thanks to all our audience for being around for the roller coaster ride of 2012, and we know you love the list as much as we do, so let’s get right to it.
MUSIC

Real talk: Pig Leg owned this year. Topher T.’s rich, growling vocals never sounded ( Read more... )

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All the news services offer BREAKING NEWS ALERTS sent to my email or phone. I am a sucker for these things, because I think they will provide only the real zingers, and right away ( Read more... )

It appears the Playboy bloggers may have screwed up their investigation badly.

Whether or not their basic premise is correct, they clearly made some bad mistakes and implied things they shouldn't have. Failure of journalism, especially fact checking.

kniwt was kind enough to point out that I was right in March 2007, and others have been kind to point out that I was right in July 2003 about the oncoming subprime mortgage tsunami ( Read more... )

Actual photo caption from our local rag:

[redacted list of children] all enjoy some exocit fruits and vegtables at Sonora Elementarys Nutrition night

The latest in the series of maniacal memos from Lee Abrams to Tribune Staff is at Romenesko in its entirety, via LA Observed's synopsis.

So beautiful. Excerpts:

Using my favorite music analogies--Imagine Newspaper CONTENT is a major artist. Currently they are performing in a old but reliable venue. What happens if the artist (Content) moves into ( Read more... )

Yet more dopamine-inspired beautiful madness from Lee Abrams, the Motivational Think of What and Chief Rotorvator at the Times is here: http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2008/04/more_stream_of_consciousn.php

Most importantly I think this sort of ( Read more... )

“During our February 8th broadcast, the hosts of this program mistakenly stated that financier George Soros ‘cheerfully’ and ‘willingly’ went to work for the Nazis after his native Hungary was occupied during World War II, when Mr. Soros was 13 years old. The hosts also mistakenly stated that Mr. Soros ‘ran around Hungary with Nazi officials, ( Read more... )

From: me ( Read more... )