November 2010
36 posts
“I try to imagine guys like Derek Jeter and Jorge Posada five, ten, fifteen years...”
– Michael Paterniti’s tour de force about Thurman Munson.
He is at work on a new book, about cheese. →
“He listens to music when he writes – really loud music, same song over and over...”
– Michael Paterniti’s wife, Sara Corbett, on his writing life. Also, from later in the interview with him: The song that’s currently looping? This one.
“I write what I know, just like anyone else, and while I don’t necessarily...”
– I can’t decide which I liked more: David Roth’s Thanksgiving recipe, or the story kind-of behind the story.
“But she’s not just vivid and generously expressive; she has become, in her last...”
– David Denby’s review of “Anne Hathaway’s Breasts and Other Drugs.”
“Q: Yeah, no, that happens. You think that you’ve just sort of...”
– I hope Scocca’s interview with DFW never ends.
Actually there was that really long one about the... →
GROSS: And is that in spite of the opening part... →
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Seven things I hate about this
The three immediate reactions to this scoop—via this guy, who officially ruined my day—from three different people, all received seconds apart:
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NOQsdZASDDFSASSDAFD
asdfdfas
AAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
HAHAHAHAH omg omg omg
I also love her black fringed dress that she wears... →
In that endearing manner of the Beltway echo... →
Wait, it is? When did that happen?
But all we wanna know is where the party at / And...
John: i remember junior year buying two cases of sparks
and as soon as i brought them into section
like 10 people descended on them like hyenas
and stole like 6 of them
this is why i need a gun
did i tell you im getting a gun?
yea
prob a glock or something
im also getting a cat
“Wee WERR VERY EXCIteD TO CoME 2 The NEW MEDDOWLANDS STAYDIUM BUt eaRLYER THIS...”
– The FUTBALL LOvING RATZ OF THE MEDDOWLANDS take over Jason Gay’s column, and it is beyond.
“I once asked what dish I might cook for a visiting friend, and she replied with...”
– Lauren Collins’s delightful profile of April Bloomfield, the Spotted Pig’s chef. (And it leads with Jay-Z and Dame B!)
Teach Me How To Dougie! →
Well, here it is: my Journal A-hed about the Dougie.
Messrs. Fowler and Glee insist they would encourage anyone to Dougie. Plus, there are still a handful of celebrities whose Dougies they would like to see.
“If Obama did it, that would be crazy,” Mr. Glee said. “The president? I mean, come on now.”
“Or Oprah,” Mr. Fowler added.
“And Kobe,” Mr....
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Five members of the Harvard football team and of... →
““Well, what makes you so sure that either of you will get into the Hall of...”
– Jason Gay, still killing it for the Journal.
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SOUND LEVEL: And Duke beats Notre Dame in overtime... →
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At one point, Gibbs literally had his foot lodged... →
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This might be one of the most brilliant things... →
Also, he’s reading tonight in Brooklyn, so everyone should come and join me in heckling him.
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(Sleepy-eyed models don’t wait.) →
First time, long time!
“Ahhhhhh—good afternoon everybody!” he squealed, getting louder and higher-pitched as he made four words last seven seconds.
Then the talk-radio host known as Mad Dog—or, to his callers, just Dog—began to dance. Bruce Springsteen’s “Radio Nowhere” filled the studio. Dog strutted five paces back and forth, performing the riffs with an air guitar, as if he were on...
John Collins, the director of “Gatz,” has never... →
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