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THE NEWS HACK'S CREED: I know more than you. I make lots more money than you. I'm smarter than you. I'm sexier than you. I appear on TV all the time. I work ten minutes a day. I rule the universe. I'm going to live forever. You are an idiot. THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 2: A lie isn't a lie when it tells THE TRUTH. THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 3: I've come to realize that the looseness of the journalistic life, the seeming laxity of the newsroom, is an illusion. Yes, there's informality and there's humor, but beneath the surface lies something deadly serious. It is a code. Sometimes the code is not even written down, but it is deeply believed in. And, when violated, it is enforced with tribal ferocity. --JOHN "OMERTA" CARROLL. THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 4: News isn't news when we don't report it. PERMALINKS: THE NEWS HACKS' DICTIONARY THE EUGENE DAVID GLOSSARY AMERICA'S MOST UNINTENTIONALLY FUNNY WEB SITE! Blogroll Me! |
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
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(Via Seeking Alpha)
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Fortunately, not everyone opposing the genius AHTEEST is a right-winger. This sort of claptrap makes us not take SLIME's "news" outfit entirely seriously.
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1:34 PM
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Wehell, as the original Ronny said in another context, there they go again!
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1:16 PM
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![]() Well look what happened here! If the loonies keep buying we'll be at the sacred 10,000 before the day is out! Maybe 11,000! Sky's the limit!!!!! MORONS. P. S. Finviz.com is one heck of a site. Imagine what it will be like twenty years hence.
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10:31 AM
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Brazil's president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Madrid's royal family and Tokyo's prime minister also are expected to lobby on behalf of their candidate cities before Friday's IOC vote. Then again, they weren't born to save the world.
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10:29 AM
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DOW 60,0 -- oops, not today.
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9:13 AM
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...so it can boost its friends' budgets -- and shrink ours.
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9:08 AM
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![]() Where would PEOPLE WARNER, PEOPLE INC., PEOPLE and PEOPLE.COM be without cute press releases?
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9:06 AM
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NO COMMENT.
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9:02 AM
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Not enough rich people.
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8:52 AM
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They include leading Hollywood figures Martin Scorcese, Woody Allen, David Lynch, Wim Wenders, Pedro Almodovar, Tilda Swinton and Monica Bellucci.... On the Los Angeles Times website only one in 30 comments from members of the public supported Polanski and most called for him to face justice. [Emphasis added] NUF SAID.
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BUT: Consumers hoping for a price war, though, are likely to be disappointed. For a change, it's the products, not the deals, that will be getting all the attention. Simply put, carmakers don't have much inventory to sell at the moment, which means prices are likely to hold steady. I guess we'll find out if financing junk television is enough to move the meter with people who aren't feeling so affluent. Tuesday, September 29, 2009
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Why? He doesn't make mistakes.
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5:07 PM
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Pffffffffffffffffffffffffffffft!
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2:58 PM
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![]() This is PRECISELY what that OLD FOGIE the Prince always has in mind. This is also the formerly Great Britain's version of TILTED ARC. And it's named DARWIN CENTER, which proves STARCHITECTS continue to DEVOLVE.
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1:14 PM
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Them's fightin' words! And TRUE. Oh, and does "a lot of newspapers just stink" apply to newsrags too?
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1:02 PM
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(Via Seeking Alpha)
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Lenders would prepay their FDIC premiums for the fourth quarter and next three years on Dec. 30, generating about $45 billion, according to an outline of the staff’s recommendations. The agency raised its estimate for bank-failure costs to $100 billion through 2013, from $70 billion, according to the staff. DOW 50,000!!!!! (Via Seeking Alpha)
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10:40 AM
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When did we stop taking such heds seriously? Perhaps when we realized too many scientists are like ![]() THIS.
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9:42 AM
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Alarmed by a burgeoning late-night bar scene, and businesses seeking more outdoor seating and later hours, concerned residents are fighting to contain the drinking and carousing. In recent months, they have fended off two new outdoor patios slated for Salem Street restaurants, bristled at a deli’s proposal to sell takeout until 4 a.m., and criticized the owners of a new beer and wine shop for reneging on their pledge to sell groceries. Underlying the tension is a fundamental struggle over what the historic neighborhood will become: a late-night playground for 20-somethings, or a haven for families like those who have lived there for centuries. Well that's an easy one: with RENDELLISM, the twenty-somethings win!
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9:35 AM
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“It was the best-paying job I ever had. It was a better-paying job than I ever thought I’d have,” he said. “It had been my anticipation and expectation that I would remain in that firm, in that job, at that salary range, for the next 10 years.” What a tragedy there, Don -- especially when a big K Street salary can be such an obvious gloating expression of a pol's contempt for his former voting peons.
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9:34 AM
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Which helps the discourse on both sides.
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8:49 AM
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Which is precisely why the hacks elected him, and which is why even people like Dick Cohen can have second thoughts now.
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8:45 AM
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Monday, September 28, 2009
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5:17 PM
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Which would include, oh, only about 99.999 percent of news hacks and other media types. Look, we understand, it's long ago and the victim has forgiven all, but shouldn't ONE OF THE GREATEST DIRECTORS IN THE UNIVERSE'S HISTORY pay a little more than a slap on the wrist?
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5:13 PM
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Not even PEOPLE WARNER? Well at least the bricks didn't go to waste; they're heading to charity.
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12:10 PM
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Or maybe it didn't. (Via AHTSJournal)
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12:04 PM
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11:18 AM
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Americans holding $3.5 trillion in cash are giving money managers increasing confidence that the stock market rally under President Barack Obama will continue through the end of the year. [Bullish overemphasis added] The OBAMA RECOVERY is here!
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11:07 AM
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(Via Billboard.biz)
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10:54 AM
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(Caveat -- he IS a con-SER-va-tive, and this was linked on NRO)
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10:51 AM
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Sunday, September 27, 2009
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P. S. We mean absolutely no disrespect to him or Mr. Safire. They were good at what they did but they must both go down in history for one thing, as most public figures do.
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5:39 PM
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Controversy is surrounding the latest design of the 400 meter tower for Gazprom, a Russian energy company. Designed by RMJM, the tower, known as Okhta Center, will dominate the skyline, towering over the spire of St. Peter and Paul Cathedral. The new design may actually become the tallest building in Europe, which begs the question that even though we have the capability of building taller and larger, should that be our priority? The time will come when STARCHITECTS will design towers 10,000 feet high and a block square. Likely only STARCHITECTS will want to inhabit them.
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1. Sony, Samsung Aim to Avoid TV Price War With Ad Efforts Well that's easy; spend enough on advertising and we can both jack up the prices. 2. Can Twitter Rake in the Ads to Justify $1 Billion Valuation? If we can get the CEOs to associate it with the NFL and the PGA our budget's the limit! Although I think they may be a bit behind the curve by now. 3. With luck sponsored iPhone apps will become so numerous and so meaningless for their profusion CEOs will have to confront another reason not to burn their customers' money on ADVERTISING. 4. Mother Births New Model for 'Mass Roots' Marketing TRANSLATION: Somehow, some way, the GREAT MARKETING GRASS GROWER IN THE SKY will still be in charge. 5. Census, With DraftFCB, to Blanket Country With $300 Million Push Do I smell a BIGMEDIA STIMULUS?
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*Although happily for many of them the answer is NO.
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3:48 PM
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A liberal joke, at present, is no laughing matter.
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9:45 AM
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The media company in July reported its second-quarter operation income fell to $1.18 billion, down 2% from the same period a year ago. Operation income in its publishing segment tumbled to $102 million from $218 million, down 53%. [PEOPLE WARNER] couldn't be reached for comment. How about, "You sure, Gordy?" (Via Henry Honest)
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9:28 AM
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Researchers were using LSD to explore treatment into everything from alcoholism and drug addiction to anxiety in cancer patients. But as notoriety of the drug spread, it became a polarizing issue among serious scientists, many of whom abandoned their research. In 1966, the federal government made LSD illegal, and by the early 1970s, research into all psychedelic drugs in humans had come to a halt, although some scientists continued to study the drugs in animals. "What poisoned the well was the widespread abuse being promoted by scientists to the public," said Dr. John Mendelson, an associate professor of medicine and psychiatry at UCSF.... [Emphasis added] So -- scientists sold LSD for trips, which had the happy effect on ending research into possible salutary uses. How sci-en-tif-ic.
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Most news stories can tell themselves in one graf. Anything beyond one graf is spinning, or selling. P. S. on 9/30 at 12:10 p. m. We had to change the link because the ASSPress changed the original story. But we DID get a BYLINE. And so A NEUHARTHISM OF THE WEEK AWARD TO EHHRNSSHT AND BRADLEY! Saturday, September 26, 2009
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ariah Carey could really use a nap" [SIC!] the client comes first -- and the reader comes LAST. ![]() A NEUHARTHISM OF THE MONTH AWARD TO ELYSA!
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12:43 PM
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Substitute "deke" and it means the same thing. This piece of -- legislation isn't going anywhere.
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12:38 PM
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(Via Tina, who runs too much of this sort of thing)
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12:31 PM
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If what was once the most prosperous manufacturing city in the nation has been brought to its knees, what does that say about our recent past? And if it can't find a way to get up, what does that say about our future? Which makes me now wonder how useful it is to put TWXSTERS in a house in Detroit. All they can do is anecdotal reporting with streaks of hopefulness. What happened to NoMotown is an allegory, and it will take more than the jernalistic equivalent of good intentions to bring it back. Friday, September 25, 2009
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U.S. Demands Iran Make Public All Nuclear Efforts
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Studio observers have said that the modern era of celebrity, with its 24-hour media coverage and scrutiny, makes the time ripe for a new "Star Is Born." Ripe for a remake of a 72-year-old picture, a 55-year-old picture and a 33-year-old picture!
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You know, given how our world "leaders" like to dish out wet noodles, I can understand that. She also declares there is no difference between paying taxes to fund police and paying protection to the mob. That, however, may go a little too far.
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With MORE WET NOODLES! Thursday, September 24, 2009
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Which company was down sixteen points today but revived, dammit.
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WOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And the Dow's only down 75 points!
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1:35 PM
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(Via MediaBistro)
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10:39 AM
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Hand gels supplied to a prison to combat the risk of swine flu have been removed after inmates realised it contained alcohol and began drinking it to try to get drunk. The only way this could have been better is if it had involved global warming.
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10:33 AM
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Rowan Laxton, 48, head of the South Asia desk of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, was watching a television report about the death of a farmer killed by Israeli bombs when he exclaimed: “F***ing Israelis, f***ing Jews”. He'd be perfect at the League of Nations!
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What WILL we do now?
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![]() You wonder if the picture did it. P. S. Steve must be annoyed: The Boston Glob said Tank was the guy -- and then the Kennedys had to complain. And he'd have been such a fine senator too! Wednesday, September 23, 2009
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6:12 PM
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The phrase "You make me tired" so comprehensively applies to politics it is best for people to avoid it lest we all turn into sleepwalkers.
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6:07 PM
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Meantime in the soon-to-be-pay-again site (small loss), from Paramount Pete's sidekick, this confusing hed: Twilight's Meyer Tackles Adult Pic Fare With Niccol This is supposed to mean the director of that temporal teen heartthrob is directing a movee aimed at chronological adults, but so infantilized has the culture become we can only mistake "adult pic" for PR0N, especially as the biz can't make anything for older than a three-year-old.
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DOW 50,000!!!!! (Via Seeking Alpha)
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2:38 PM
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Current "'obama recovery'" index: 82.
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True enough -- what about all our superiors in the luxury news suites?
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9:26 AM
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Unconfirmed reports have suggested Mr Brown might use ill-health as an excuse for standing down before the poll, and former Cabinet minister Charles Clarke said he should go "for his own dignity". I was about to say something about mental but that would be low, wouldn't it? BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!
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9:20 AM
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YOU'RE FIRED!
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9:15 AM
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Every day is Despot Day there. Tuesday, September 22, 2009
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3:48 PM
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Greed isn't THAT good.
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2:09 PM
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DOW 40,000!!!!! (Via Seeking Alpha)
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What makes such outages so delicious is this is when the Pointy-Haired Bosses of the world get their comeuppance.
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12:49 PM
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This article is proof that charging $1,000 a year and putting everything behind a pay wall is no guarantee you get any closer to the truth -- indeed we surmise The BUGMEISTER's devotion to this rag has allowed its staff to get slack -- but just so long as they can type those snide adjectives they'll be okay. ![]() A NEUHARTHISM OF THE MONTH AWARD TO THE GREATER PITTSBURGH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE! P. S. When USAOKAY!!!!! does a better job with a subject than The Greater Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce's new house organ you know lots of money is still wasted in the jernalism biz.
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Let me guess: RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRREGIETHEATERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!! Or as this direc-TOR puts it: “If people would be happy after “Tosca,” then I would be upset.” TRANSLATION: That 9/11 ad is a work of genius. Our consolation is opera is irrelevant, and becomes more irrelevant the more trendy it gets. Moreover it is the opposite of children: it should be heard and not seen. And we have plenty of opera recordings. Monday, September 21, 2009
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Frank Sinatra Jr. Narrates the Largest Production in Audio-Book History'McKnight's Memory' is a full cast [SIC] 4 hr. audio-production [SIC] that has 11 star actors of the '60s. In this romantic thriller, Robert Culp plays a CIA agent with amnesia obsessed with 'the ultimate woman' played by Nancy Kwan. Is she on his side or helping his enemies destroy him as they are pursued by both the CIA and the mafia. [Double SIC] Hollywood, CA (PRWEB) September 20, 2009 -- The just released full cast [SIC] audio-novel [SIC] 'McKnight's Memory', with film quality [SIC] effects and music, has 11 name actors of the '60s in the cast:![]() The Largest Production in Audio-Book History Frank Sinatra Jr. - Actor and singer still performing around the world. [SIC] Robert Culp - I SPY - The Outer Limits - Bob, Ted, Carol, & Alice [SIC] Nancy Kwan - The World of Suzie Wong - Flower Drum Song - Dragon The [SIC] Bruce Lee Story David Hedison - The Fly - Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea - The Lost World Don Stroud - The Buddy Holly Story - Cogan's [SIC] Bluff - Joe Kid [SIC] (both [SIC] with Clint Eastwood) HM [SIC] Wynant - Twilight Zone's 'The Howling Man' - Run Silent Run [SIC] Deep (with Clark Cable) [SIC!!!!!] Henry Silva - Oceans 11 - The Manchurian Candidate - Sergeants 3 (all with Frank Sinatra) Edd Byrnes - Grease - 77 Sunset Strip - Darby's Rangers Barbara Leigh - Junior Bonner (with Steve McQueen) - Pretty Maids All in a Row (with Rock Hudson) Gary Lockwood - 2001 a [SIC] Space Odyssey - It Happened at the Worlds [SIC] Fair - Wild in the Country (both [SIC] with Elvis Presley) Alan Young - The Time Machine - Tom Thumb - Mr. Ed The story concerns CIA chief James McKnight, who wakes up in Columbia [SIC] in the middle of a shoot out with no memory. He is returned to Washington DC where he meets the beautiful Carla, the women [SIC] he lives with. Yet, [SIC] he doesn't remember her. "It's like sleeping with a beautiful stranger," he tells her. Carla captivates McKnight to the extent of trusting her [SIC] when he shouldn't. Carla seems drawn to McKnight's power and position in the CIA, giving her a lifestyle that she couldn't have on her own. But is that all she's there for? Is she really his lover? The one he chose for himself? Or did someone else choose her for him to keep him erotically sedated until the kill? And who is that other woman that he has nightmares about? And those bandits that he killed in Columbia [SIC] . Did they really come back to life? Or are they just a part of his amnesic dreams? When McKnight thinks that both the CIA and the Mafia are trying to kill him, he has two choices, fight back or run with Carla. But can he trust her? Is she on his side or helping his enemies destroy him? Perhaps his strange dreams hold the answers to his bizarre situation and the truth about Carla. McKnight continues on his mysterious adventure, heading towards a startling revelation. The audio-novel was written by Paul Kyriazi director [SIC] of six feature films including 'Omega Cop'. Listen to an exciting free sample performed by Sinatra, Culp, & Kwan at: http://lodingo.com/_catalog_49120/Ronin_Audio_Book_Downloads (McKnight's Memory Download Site) ###(Via PublishersWeekly.com, where the press releases are usually in book form) (Revised 2/18/2010 at 10:35 a. m. I didn't notice "CLARK CABLE"?!?!?)
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Ouch! It wasn't too long ago the hacks and the sales -- ANALYSTS invented the number $40 billion. Very Littler Jeffy! You should have quit while you were ahead -- in more ways than one.
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10:52 AM
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Last one out turn off the set! (Via MediaBistro)
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Perfect timing!
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9:31 AM
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P. S. at 1:08 p. m. Shucks, more people watched the CURE this year -- but it still got clobbered by football.
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9:16 AM
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Take Porsche, whose models start at $46,000 and top $130,000. Its average incentives, which include cash-back rebates and other deals, were $4,412 through August, according to estimates from Autodata Corp. That's up 657% from the same period last year. Bentley, meanwhile, is offering 0.9% financing on the Bentley Continental GT luxury coupe, which starts at about $180,000, said Edmunds.com auto analyst Jessica Caldwell. "I've seen low APRs before, but 0.9% for Bentley -- that's more like what Chevy offers," Caldwell said. And it's made by Volkswagen!
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This will happen when a first-world country with a third-world mentality runs THE GAMES.
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8:44 AM
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![]() Post Executive Editor Marcus Brauchli said he worries "that we are not well-enough informed about conservative issues. It's particularly a problem in a town so dominated by Democrats and the Democratic point of view." What's wrong with that? (Via -- oh well -- Jennifer at Commentary) Sunday, September 20, 2009
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1. Colgate-Palmolive Co.'s SoftSoap maintained its share in the highly competitive body-wash category last year despite spending less than $5 million on measured media, according to TNS -- a fraction of spending by such behemoths as P&G's Olay, Unilever's Dove and Johnson & Johnson's Aveeno and Neutrogena. The recent launch of SoftSoap's Nutri Serum body wash added 3.9 share points for Colgate in the category to reach 12.4%, even before most consumer marketing for the brand switched on, according to Information Resources Inc., measuring the four weeks ended Sept. 6. So why? WHY? WHY? must the American Society of Willfully Ignorant Advertisers finance JUNK TELEVISION? 2. But what happens when the ads themselves become a negative inducement -- a form of punishment for users unwilling or unable to pay for the premium version? Online and mobile ads are already maligned for sorry targeting and bad creative and the fact that freemium models are counting on an "annoyance factor" isn't likely to help that case. "Advertising in general is annoying and intrusive when it is not relevant," said Chris Cunningham, CEO of Appsavvy. "A lot of mobile ad networks have completely dropped the ball and let CPMs fall far below what they're worth." So why? WHY? WHY? did you frauds move the GEORGE WASHINGTON HILL MODEL to the Web and mobile networks?
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5:58 PM
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![]() Scary: the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, in Jeddah. It would have to look like a place where...never mind.
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Saturday, September 19, 2009
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Today, however, the Russian government sharply criticized Ahmadinejad for calling the Holocaust a "myth." When does Belly Kisser start cooking up an extra-sized portion of wet noodles?
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And then I saw an exceptionally comely young woman in shorts and riding a bicycle, and I felt sad again.
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5:47 PM
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5:32 PM
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We should be sad that a Mary Travers is gone because it reminds us how many of our cultural forms died before her. Folk basically expired about the same time as jazz and the musical, but where the latter's wounds were partly self-inflicted -- what was that pimp-'n'-pusher noodle peddler Miles but a trend follower? -- folk was bludgeoned to death by the rock musicians who took its gift outright, curdled it with their nonsense lyrics and their pretensions, amplified it beyond reason, and beat a whole three generations senseless besides.
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Well Educated and Flat Broke Although if you were well educated would you be flat broke?
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2:21 PM
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Friday, September 18, 2009
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I'VE SAT straight-faced through so many sitcom pilots in recent seasons that I'd begun to think it was me. Am I just comedy-challenged? Is there something wrong with someone who can't find the funny in, say, CBS' "Rules of Engagement" or Fox's " 'Til Death"? Oh, sure, my critic credentials are relatively solid: I love "The Office" and "30 Rock" and "How I Met Your Mother," and I beat the drum as loudly as anyone for the late, great "Arrested Development." Yet even those shows' best episodes often leave me laughing more on the inside than the outside. We wonder -- how does one laugh on the inside? We think we know how -- because any time an ad-blurbist writes like this we scream on the outside.
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5:39 PM
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![]() Hey puppet, keep your mouth shut. S'allright? Mmmmfgghhhhhhmmmmnnnn.... The TWXSTERS are also alerting us to a big water main break in "a Baltimore, Maryland neighborhood" -- if you move Baltimore a few miles. P. S. I know yesterday I likened Senor Wences's hand to someone else. Can I help it if it changed identity?
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5:33 PM
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![]() Now see, in the dark, some modern architecture doesn't look so bad. Of course other modern architecture should remain as dark as possible.
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Which further reminds us: none of the aforementioned belchers helped to found, or ever edited, a magazine. One thing about the gentlemen: they could write -- and they could read.
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11:41 AM
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Oh, and Chris is clever not to mention how many people those "stores and offices and technology companies" in Canal Place in Akron (or is that "canal place"?) employ. Sure as heck it ain't 23,000 -- and they don't require their own police and fire departments.
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Thursday, September 17, 2009
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![]() I believe I can FLYYYYYYYyyyyyyyyYYYYYYYyyyyyyyyyyyyyYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY.... (Yep, another Shanghai expo pavilion!) AND: ![]() I'll take 300 Big Macs, 400 large fries, and...how about a couple hundred Quarter Pounders for my little friend here! (A police station in Taipei!)
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4:59 PM
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![]() With FOX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!® You're Always the First to Know!™
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3:22 PM
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I HATE when news hacks do favors!
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1:17 PM
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Didn't we do some horsetrading involving Turkey to get Soviet missiles out of Cuba? I wonder if the hacks didn't let JFK go to His Omnipotence's head.
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10:44 AM
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There'll always be a Nation. The truth is that the decision to put a missile defense system was both stupid and needlessly provocative. Stupid, because the system doesn't work and because the threat from Iran is nonexistent.... President Obama deserves high praise for this action. ![]() His Omnipotence says thank you! Isn't Robert Dreyfuss an actor or something?
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(Via the usual Romy)
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![]() Shhh, don't say anything, but... Pffh-hh-hh hh hh hh ha ha ha ha ha ha HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!!!!
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8:31 AM
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(Via MediaBistro)
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8:26 AM
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![]() The House ethics committee announced Wednesday that it is probing Reps. Sam Graves (R-Mo.), Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.) and Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), fresh evidence that the chamber's disciplinary process has ramped up since it created an office last year to vet allegations against lawmakers. Wednesday, September 16, 2009
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This, calling you-know-who a jackass -- maybe if His Omnipotence stopped closeting his common sense he'd be a good president. Caveat: This comes from Laugh-a-Minute Gibbs.
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5:17 PM
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P. S. Pabst is owned by a not-for-profit trust based in California, S&P Company. NUF SAID. *Not the first time, though not with twee pink elephants.
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5:03 PM
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When's the hangover -- and when are the arrests?
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5:01 PM
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Look at it this way, One: it was Max' fault.
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4:58 PM
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![]() SO, when the team wins the championship we'll have the confetti already in place!
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(Via Forbeslist)
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9:51 AM
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Hanoi Jane must still earn royalties from her exercise videos. (Via the annoying AHTSJournal)
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![]() Brauchli: “TOO MANY PEOPLE CALL OUR NEWSROOM!!!!!” (Inundating overemphasis added) BROCCOLI! TOO MANY THESES CLUTTER YOUR NEWSROOM! Tuesday, September 15, 2009
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4:51 PM
by Gene
This sounds dangerously close to a self-serving joke. Either 1. ST. WARREN is a technoboob, or 2. For all His wisdom accreted from investing in 1965 He is not minimally smart enough to employ the kind of help that should get Him the documents, or 3. Lehman was going to "die" anyway regardless of what the ST. did. We say it's all three. And 4. HENRY HONEST can arrange some annoying links with annoying heds.
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2:14 PM
by Gene
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2:09 PM
by Gene
The Gay Marriage Act of 2009 (so its sponsors will not call it) is as serious as SUMNER's latest publicity stunt (except, that is, to His sponsors). (Via SUPERADAM!!!!!)
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9:40 AM
by Gene
If Leno's desire is to help fans get to sleep earlier, desire satisfied. Bottom Line: Leno grinds out some mystery meat. We STILL hope he costs jobs -- I mean, succeeds!
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9:01 AM
by Gene
I wonder -- would she kill a story about THESIS MAN because he was winning? (Via MediaBistro) Monday, September 14, 2009
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8:09 PM
by Gene
"[A]fter achieving fame and a small measure of fortune from the unlikely success of a show about a dystopia where citizens are forced to pay to pee, the creators of 'Urinetown' are desperately trying to top themselves." Thus the oddball topic of their new musical, "Yeast Nation." (Via the excruciating AHTSJournal)
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8:06 PM
by Gene
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7:58 PM
by Gene
(Via the Crainiacs)
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1:32 PM
by Gene
These IDIOT CON-SER-VA-TIVES do NOT flatter themselves. If I took the time and had the stomach to look back to 2003 and the motley MoveOn gang I'd no doubt find similar blog posts pumping up their protests' attendance. It was a cheap ego fix then, and it is now. Both sides do it because in the back of their empty skulls they sense they may not be as ENTIRELY RIGHT as they think. (Via the BOOM BOOM Corner)
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1:21 PM
by Gene
Side B: The usual hacks are ignoring it. These are the two sides of a wooden nickel.
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9:40 AM
by Gene
We just looked again. He's still running Zimbabwe. He will be running it for a long, long time.
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9:19 AM
by Gene
GO JUT-JAW! (Via the infernal Michael)
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8:36 AM
by Gene
But now the middleman -- the journalistic gatekeepers of yore -- may no longer be necessary. NUF SAID.
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8:20 AM
by Gene
SUMNER, we know You think Your viewers are lemmings, ants, retards, spit on the sidewalk, just so many cells in the universe, and we know every year for Your every "Awards" show You must concoct these moronic video press kits to keep people like THE IDIOT EDDIE LAMPERT and the new idiot at Moon 'n' Stars satisfied, and maybe You still get the SUPER RATINGS, but honest, SUMNER, on days like these we really do wish that an asteroid were headed YOUR way. Sunday, September 13, 2009
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4:22 PM
by Gene
"Obviously somebody made this ad to win awards and get attention," said Bob Moore, chief creative officer at Publicis USA, when consulted on the matter. "It's absolutely tasteless. It probably was a rogue creative team trying to win awards. This desperation to win awards is getting out of control." So much of what media hacks do is for awards, which makes us mad enough. Worse, they do get our attention, in such a way that we so disbelieve what they say we wouldn't hear even if they were yelling FIRE! in a crowded theater for cause. The next time they "apologize" for something, we should remember this -- and plug the ears more firmly. The Crainiacs even call it "ghastly". We didn't think ad-types had morals or ethics. Well, we were close.
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12:59 PM
by Gene
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12:07 PM
by Gene
We further suggest that now both sides have their professional protesters; only the skank is different.
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10:00 AM
by Gene
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9:55 AM
by Gene
17-room home next to Obamas' Chicago home for sale!!!!! (EXCITING overemphasis added) Say maybe some hacks could come together and organize a church and worship him there! Oh, they already have a church.
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9:47 AM
by Gene
Saturday, September 12, 2009
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12:01 PM
by Gene
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11:52 AM
by Gene
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10:53 AM
by Gene
Which reminds us, Broccoli: Where's the story on You-Know-Who's THESIS? Friday, September 11, 2009
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7:11 PM
by Gene
(Second link via, alas, official FOX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!News employee Jo-NAH)
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5:38 PM
by Gene
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5:27 PM
by Gene
![]() We've said before that our age can't honor the past because we've systematically taken our collective memory and tossed it overboard. New York's on-site memorial to 9-11 is a dead end you'd never be stuck in at night. I know it has to be below ground but what's wrong with some light, and air, and hopefulness?
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