Made a couple of additions to the blog, over to the left. I’ll add more links, plus more books, later on. Right now, Rey Mysterio, Jr. has a match on Smackdown…
On the Couch with Dr. Schadenfreude
Mar 26, ’03
8:48 PM
(Of the Millennium Dome, Talk, Enron, and the culture of arrogance) I’ve long been fascinated by failure. Not the run-of-the-mill, never-been, B-list sort of failure that Howard Stern used to trot out so masterfully on the glory days of his radio show. No, the failure I appreciate most is the can’t-miss, blue-chip variety, the one [...]
Editorials
Mar 18, ’03
5:22 PM
As I mentioned earlier, I edit a pharmaceutical trade magazine by day. Every issue (9, plus a supplement) I write “From the Editor,” a page that’s at least ostensibly supposed to be about the pharma & biopharma industry and the contract services and outsourcing arena that we cover. Since the book launched in 1999, I’ve [...]
Off the (w)rack(ed with guilt)
Mar 15, ’03
4:40 PM
Spent the early afternoon at a big, outdoor outlet mall up in New York state, where I spent money I probably shouldn’t have (since I’m supposed to be salting everything away for a number of reasons), on a variety of things: $20 on books (The September 11 Photo Project, The Muse Asylum, and Baby, I [...]
Lifetime Piling Up
Mar 5, ’03
8:59 PM
Not much blogging going on this past week. It’s been yet another case of Lifetime Piling Up, as the Talking Heads posthumously put it. There are a number of themes I’d like to write about in the next few weeks, including the retirement of Patrick Ewing’s jersey at Madison Square Garden, Ron Rosenbaum’s recent NY [...]
