24. Yeah,
I came here to check it out, signed up, sat back, and waited. Within a day I had
almost 50 followers even though I hadn't twitted
23.once.
Every time I started something it ran too long, as I often do, and being an
adherent to the beginning, middle, and ending theory of
22. writing,
I found no way of communicating I was happy with. I live with the dreaded
red negative number outside the Twitter box. I
21. considered
posting cutesy sayings like "The early worm gets eaten by the bird." Aren't you
glad I didn't? I'm certainly not going to bother
20. anyone
with what I'm actually doing right now. I'm typing, obviously, and anyone who
disagrees can meet me outside. But there's a larger
19.issue
at stake here as social networks continue to take over our lives. If there were
just one place, I could deal with it, but having to bop back
18.and
forth between Facebook and MySpace and Plaxo and Blogger and Skype and
Twitter is just too fucking much. I'd rather not know
17. anybody
than have to face the mountain of blather, and I don't mean you personally.
All your postings are succinct and precise. You're a
16.genius.
I'm talking about all that other crap out there. What am I doing? Right now?
Twitter, do you really want to know? Wading through
15.crap.
That's all I do. This is my first and last twit, though it may go on for a
while. I say if you want to believe in evolution, just take a look at
14. the
human mind today compared to 20 years ago. Today, our PCs are an extension of
our brains, which are intricately connected to everyone
13.else's
brain. 20 years ago, if you wanted to be published, you had to find an editor at
a publishing house or newspaper or magazine to reach
12.an
audience. Now all you need is a library card. The death of newspapers has
less to do with Craig's List and more to do with the death of the
11.job
of editor. In the reader's quest for the uncensored and thoroughly
enlightened version of whatever it is we like, we just Google and find it,
10. whatever
it is we're looking for, it's there, in abundance. We don't need no stinking
editor. Fuck editors, always telling you what they think
9.you
should read. We cut out the middleman and mainline the pure stuff. Like a
sculptor who dreams of giant bronze statues, writers dream of
8. expanding
their horizons, moving from words, lots of words, to actual sentences that say
something, upward to paragraphs that expand upon
7.your
every thought, adding up to complete pieces with themes that bind it all
together, more than words and sentences and paragraphs, a
6.fluidity
of thought that leads to the novel, the final experiment for any budding
wordsmith. The evolution of the writer is the constant
5.expansion
of your ability to string it along in a larger and larger forum where everything
has a coherency that fulfills the reader's desire for
4.meaning,
which is all we're really looking for. Twitter is the opposite of that. Now that
writers are personally involved with their readers,
3.skipping
the editor and the publisher, the words flowing directly from one computer to
another, the job of middleman has become purely
2. technological.
What else is Twitter but a big bad editor telling you how many words you can
use, so fuck Twitter too. I only write to size if
1. someone
is paying me. It costs to shut me up. Faced with Twitter, Charles Dickens would
have a coronary. 140 characters? Bite me.
DAVID BROOKS: The End of Philosophy (nytimes.com)
Socrates talked. The assumption behind his approach to philosophy, and the approaches of millions of people since, is that moral thinking is mostly a matter of reason and deliberation: Think through moral problems. Find a just principle. Apply it.
Kira Cochrane: Age shall not wither them (guardian.co.uk)
Unlined foreheads, bagless eyes, supple skin: today's celebrities have stopped ageing. Some admit to treatments such as Botox - but many deny it. But why do women in the public eye feel they cannot age - and what pressure does it put on ordinary people?
Barack Obama yesterday announced a radical drive aimed at ridding the world of nuclear weapons, as the focus of his European visit switched from financial to geopolitical security. "In Prague, I will lay out an agenda to seek the goal of a world without nuclear weapons," Obama said yesterday... "The spread of nuclear weapons or the theft of nuclear material could lead to the extermination of any city on the planet," he warned, adding that suspected rogue nuclear states, such as North Korea or Iran, may only be persuaded to abandon their quests if the big nuclear powers set an example...
Barack Obama's New Offensive Against Nuclear Weapons | CommonDreams.org
How successful do you think Obama will be in this endeavor?
A. Total nuclear disarmament and the dawning of the Age of Aquarius (Hoo Ha!)...
B. Significant arms reduction by the current nuclear powers, rigorous enforcement of the non-proliferation treaty re: Iran and North Korea etal and the Doomsday Clock rolls back a couple of hours (whew!)...
C. Are you kidding? Humanity is gonna, sooner or later, blow itself to smithereens, dagnabbit!
A Dan & Roseanne Conner
B Bob & Emily Hartley
C Cliff & Clair Huxtable
D Ralph & Alice Kramden
E Rob & Laura Petrie
Source
Charlie was first, and correct, with:
I wasn't too sure of this one, but my first guess was
E Rob & Laura Petrie
and indeed...
Alan J answered:
E Rob & Laura Petrie
Jim from CA replied:
The Petries
Mike M responded:
e
Adam in NoHo wrote:
Well, B Bob & Emily Hartley
C Cliff & Clair Huxtable
D Ralph & Alice Kramden
all lived in Apartments (OK, the Huxtables lived in a Tounhouse) in The City.
A- The Connors lived on some other street, I'm sure, leaving D- Rob & Laura Petrie to live on 148 Bonnie Meadows Rd.
Sally said:
Who else but Rob & Laura Petrie (E) would live at 148 Bonnie Meadow Road? I remembered this because over 50 years ago, I lived on Meadow Farm Road on Long Island...
PS: In exactly one week, my son is coming (from CA) to visit us for a whole week! I can't wait!!
And, Joe S responded:
Who else could it be but Rob & Laura Petrie?
Oooh Raahb!
I was amused by the reader comment about the picture at the end of
Tuesday's page.
I, too, found it a bit odd that you ran a picture of one of the most despicable, loathesome animals on the planet, instead of a cute newborn sea otter or other adorable animal. But then I realized it was just another shot of an animal at play. What the hell, they can't all be cute!
Sincerely,
CBS opens the night with a FRESH'Survivor; Brazil', followed by a FRESH'CSI: The Original One', then a FRESH'Harper's Island'.
On a RERUNDave (from 3/9/09) are Russell Brand and Jack Hanna
On a RERUNCraig (from 2/3/09) are Robin Williams and Jason Randal
NBC begins the night with a FRESH'The Office', followed by the SERIES PREMIERE'Parks & Recreation', then a FRESH'The Office', followed by a FRESH'30 Rock', then the SERIES PREMIERE'Southland'.
On a RERUNLeno (from 3/18/09) are Reese Witherspoon, Keith Olbermann, and Naturally 7
On a RERUNJimmy Fallon (from 3/24/09) are Rachel Maddow, John Cena, and Gabriella Cilmi
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly (from 3/10/09) are Robin Thicke
ABC starts the night with a FRESH'In The Motherhood', followed by a FRESH'Samantha Who?', then a RERUN'Grey's Anatomy', followed by a RERUN'Private Practice'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel (from 3/24/09) are "Dancing with the Stars" castoff Denise Richards, Zach Braff, Cheryl Hines, and Charlie Wilson sits in with the band
The CW offers offers a RERUN'Smallville', followed by a RERUN'Supernatural'.
Faux has a FRESH'Bones', followed by a FRESH'Hell's Kitchen'.
MY fills the night with the movie 'Swingers'.
A&E has 'The First 48', another 'The First 48', still another 'The First 48', followed by a FRESH'The Beast'.
AMC offers the movie 'Passenger 57', followed by the movie 'King Kong'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] The Hotel Inspector - Episode 1
[1:00 PM] How Clean Is Your House? US - Episode 13
[1:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 3
[2:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares Revisited - Ep 4 Bonapartes
[3:00 PM] Gordon Ramsay's F Word - Episode 7
[4:00 PM] The Hotel Inspector - Episode 2
[5:00 PM] Gordon Ramsay's F Word - Episode 8
[6:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 6 The Granary
[7:00 PM] BBC World News America
[8:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 4
[9:00 PM] Married to the Eiffel Tower - Married to the Eiffel Tower
[10:00 PM] BBC World News America
[11:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 4
[12:00 AM] Married to the Eiffel Tower - Married to the Eiffel Tower
[1:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 4
[2:00 AM] Married to the Eiffel Tower - Married to the Eiffel Tower
[3:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 4 Minnie Driver, Jimmy Carr
[4:00 AM] How Clean Is Your House? US - Episode 13
[4:30 AM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 3
[5:00 AM] How Clean Is Your House? US - Episode 1
[5:30 AM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 4
[6:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Episode 3 (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Make Me A Supermodel', 'Millionaire Matchmaker', another 'Millionaire Matchmaker', followed by a FRESH'Millionaire Matchmakter'.
Comedy Central has 'Scrubs', another 'Scrubs', last night's 'Jon Stewart', last night's 'Colbert Report''Futurama', 'South Park', followed by the SERIES PREMIERE'Kröd Mandoon And The Flaming Sword Of Fire'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is William Cohan
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Bart Ehrman
FX has the movie 'Kiss Of The Dragon', followed by the movie 'The Fast And The Furious', then the movie 'The Fast And The Furious', again.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'Ax Men', followed by a FRESH'Gangland', and 'Warriors'.
IFC -
[7:15 AM] Burden of Dreams
[9:00 AM] SXSW 2009: Behind the Badge
[9:30 AM] Umberto D
[11:00 AM] The Flower of Evil
[12:45 PM] Burden of Dreams
[2:30 PM] SXSW 2009: Behind the Badge
[3:00 PM] Umberto D
[4:30 PM] The Flower of Evil
[6:15 PM] House of Games
[8:00 PM] It's Alive!
[9:35 PM] Pumpkinhead
[11:05 PM] Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
[12:30 AM] Monkey Shines
[2:30 AM] It's Alive!
[4:05 AM] Pumpkinhead
[5:40 AM] Umberto D (ALL TIMES EDT)
Sundance -
[04:25 AM] Caramel
[06:00 AM] It's Not Easy Being Green Season 2: Episode 7
[06:30 AM] Big Ideas for a Small Planet - Season 1: Paper or Plastic?
[07:00 AM] Bombon: El Perro
[08:40 AM] Looking for Leonard
[10:15 AM] A Curtain Raiser
[10:50 AM] Dog
[11:00 AM] Pulling - Season 2: Episode 3
[11:30 AM] The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle: Episode 5
[12:00 PM] Nimrod Nation: Episode 6
[12:30 PM] One Punk Under God: Episode 6
[01:00 PM] Starting Out in the Evening
[03:00 PM] Looking for Leonard
[04:35 PM] The Danish Poet
[04:50 PM] Bombon: El Perro
[06:30 PM] Quiet City
[08:00 PM] Spectacle: The Police
[09:00 PM] Sin City Law: Episode 6
[10:00 PM] The Home Song Stories
[11:40 PM] The Danish Poet
[12:00 AM] Spectacle: The Police
[01:00 AM] Sin City Law: Episode 6
[02:00 AM] I Love Your Work
[04:00 AM] The Ghost
[05:40 AM] The Danish Poet (ALL TIMES EDT)
The Grammy-winning producer who helped create the 'Sound of Philadelphia' Leon Huff poses with wife Regina Huff, after a ceremony honoring Huff with the renaming of a section of Mulford Street, where he was raised, Leon Huff Way Wednesday, April 8, 2009, in Camden, N.J. The songwriting duo of Huff and long time collaborator, Kenny Gamble are known for such songs as 'Love Train' by the O'Jays; 'Me and Mrs. Jones' by Billy Paul; and 'If You Don't Know Me by Now' by Harold Melvin and The Blue Notes.
Photo by Mel Evans
Just weeks after "The Daily Show" host Jon Stewart took Cramer to task for trying to turn finance reporting into a "game," famous bear economist Nouriel Roubini criticized Cramer on Tuesday for predicting bull markets.
"Cramer is a buffoon," said Roubini, a New York University economics professor often called Dr. Doom. "He was one of those who called six times in a row for this bear market rally to be a bull market rally and he got it wrong. And after all this mess and Jon Stewart he should just shut up because he has no shame."
Roubini said in 2006 that the worst recession in four decades was on its way. He has attracted attention for his gloomy - and accurate - predictions of the U.S. financial market meltdown.
In this photo released by Starpix, actor Michael J. Fox poses in front of a poster of the Good Housekeeping magazine cover that bears his photo, Tuesday, April 7, 2009 in New York.
Photo by Amanda Schwab
Eminem debuted the video to "We Made You," the first single off his forthcoming album "Relapse" on MTV Tuesday.
The video, directed by Joseph Kahn, mercilessly spoofs a slew of celebrities, including Jessica Simpson and her alleged weight issues, Kim Kardashian's rear, Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson's fractured lesbian relationship, Sarah Palin, Elle DeGeneres, Jessica Alba and others.
"When you walked through the door, it was clear to me/ You're the one they adore, who they came to see/ You're a rock star, everybody wants you," goes the track's chorus over the Dr. Dre-produced beat.
In the video, Eminem plays John Mayer crooning to a smitten Jennifer Aniston; Tony Romo doing a dirty dance with Simpson, Spock from "Star Trek;" Kevin Federline alongside a dancing Britney Spears; and an incarcerated Blake Fielder-Civil making out with estranged wife Amy Winehouse. 50 Cent and Bobby Lee from MAD TV make guest appearances.
Joan Rivers, the 75-year-old, raspy-voiced comedian, will be held up for comedic slaughter in a special taped July 26 in Los Angeles by the American cable network Comedy Central.
The show, known as a roast, will air on the Viacom Inc.-owned network on Aug. 9.
On Wednesday, she joked that the last time she was roasted was for a "two-for-one special: Joan of Arc and me."
Dessert specialist Nadir Gullu holds a pan with a baklava made into the iconic image of U.S. President Barack Obama, dubbed "the Baracklava,"at Gulluoglu baklava bakery in Istanbul, April 6, 2009. Gullu spent five days and used 40 layers of pastry to make the baklava in honour of Obama's visit to Istanbul on Monday and Tuesday. Obama reiterated on Monday his support for Turkey's bid to join the European Union despite opposition from member states, but urged the mainly Muslim country to speed up long-stalled reforms.
Photo by Finbarr O'Reilly
The Daytime Emmy Awards ceremony has a new home at the CW network.
The CW's entertainment president, Dawn Ostroff, said Wednesday the show draws a "core female following" similar to that of the network and will provide a promotional platform for the CW's fall schedule.
The Aug. 30 broadcast will mark the first time the ceremony won't air on one of the major three networks. In the last four years, it had shifted between CBS and ABC.
The Los Angeles district attorney's office says it does not have enough evidence to charge a choreographer on the FOX television show "So You Think You Can Dance" with sexually assaulting four of his students.
Prosecutors said Wednesday that police are investigating allegations that Brazilian-born Alex Da Silva, 41, lured the female dance students into his bedroom and raped them in 2003, 2004 and 2005.
The salsa dancer, who teaches at several Los Angeles dance studios, was arrested Saturday and was released from jail Tuesday.
Defense attorney Harland Braun says some of the people with whom his client had sex "don't understand the difference between being seduced and being raped."
Shaolin Wu-Shu Warriors lift a colleague using spears during a photocall at the Chinese State Circus at Alexandra Palace in London April 8, 2009.
Photo by Toby Melville
Whitney Houston is countersuing her stepmother for $1.6 million.
The Grammy-winning singer claims Barbara Houston owes her the money for failing to make mortgage, tax, and condo association payments for the Fort Lee condominium where she has lived since 1987.
Her stepmother initiated the legal tussle last year when she claimed the 45-year-old singer, who issued the condo mortgage loan, improperly kept proceeds from John Houston's $1 million insurance policy after his 2003 death.
Whitney Houston's attorney says the 47-year-old stepmother is not a poor, elderly widow and that Whitney Houston should not have to subsidize her living expenses. But Barbara Houston's lawyer says there was a verbal understanding that the condo belonged to his client.
The Who rocker Pete Townshend is facing a £40 million court battle after his estranged wife hired Sir Paul McCartney's divorce lawyer to fight for a share of his fortune.
The My Generation hitmaker split from Karen Astley in 1994 but they stayed married and remained good friends.
But in a court hearing in London on Tuesday, the couple were granted the first stage of a divorce - with Astley stating she considers Townshend's behaviour "no longer tolerable".
Townshend married Astley in 1968 after meeting her at art college several years previously. He currently lives with musician Rachel Fuller.
The BBC has apologised for jibes made by one of its presenters about jockey Liam Treadwell's teeth, shortly after he had ridden a 100-1 outsider to victory in the Grand National.
The broadcaster said it had received 1,477 complaints from viewers angered after presenter Clare Balding joked about the state of Treadwell's teeth in a TV interview after the race.
"Give us a big grin to the camera," said Balding.
Then to laughter from onlookers she added: "No let's see your teeth. He hasn't got the best in the world but you can afford to go and get them done now."
Treadwell, 23, had just sprung a huge surprise after guiding rank outsider Mon Mome to victory at the Aintree racecourse, becoming the biggest-priced winner since 1967 and only the fifth horse to win at such a price in 162 National races.
A model of Pharaoh Tutankhamen's portable shrine with the Anubis figure is seen during the German premiere of the exhibition 'Tutankhamen-his grave and his treasures' in Munich's Olympic park April 8, 2009. The exhibition opens tomorrow and runs until August 30, 2009.
Photo by Michaela Rehle
For the first time, scientists have been able to "see" and trace lightning inside a plume of ash spewing from an actively erupting volcano.
When Alaska's Mount Redoubt volcano began rumbling back to life in January, a team of researchers scrambled to set up a system called a Lightning Mapping Array that would be able to peer through the dust and gas of any eruption that occurred to the lightning storm happening within. Lightning is known to flash in the tumultuous clouds belched out during volcanic eruptions .
The lightning produced when Redoubt finally erupted on March 22 was "prolific," said physicist Paul Krehbiel of New Mexico Tech.
"The lightning activity was as strong or stronger than we have seen in large Midwestern thunderstorms," Krehbiel said. "The radio frequency noise was so strong and continuous that people living in the area would not have been able to watch broadcast VHF television stations."
The Fox network is letting employees of some troubled small businesses decide which one of their colleagues will be laid off and turning the results into a reality show.
The series, "Someone's Gotta Go," is in production, but Fox wouldn't say on Wednesday when it would go on the air.
Each episode will feature a company with about 15 or 20 employees that needs to cut costs because of the economy. Instead of the boss deciding who is fired, the company will open its books to show everyone's salaries and let the employees make the call.
In an inverse to "The Apprentice," the chosen one loses, instead of gets, a job.
One Colorado woman's love for tofu has been judged X-rated by state officials. Kelly Coffman-Lee wanted to tell the world about her fondness for bean curd by picking certain letters for her SUV's license plate. Her suggestion for the plate: "ILVTOFU." But the Division of Motor Vehicles blocked her plan because they thought the combination of letters could be interpreted as profane.
Says Department of Revenue spokesman Mark Couch: "We don't allow 'FU' because some people could read that as street language for sex."
The 38-year-old Coffman-Lee says tofu is a staple of her family's diet because they are vegan and that the DMV misinterpreted her message.
1970s gay porn idol Jack Wrangler has died at age 62.
Wrangler starred in numerous gay adult movies and went on to become a musical theater performer. His life was chronicled in last fall's documentary "Wrangler: Anatomy of an Icon."
Wrangler later married pop vocalist Margaret Whiting, who survives him.
Indian lion cubs Jeevana, left, and Jasraj, right, are seen in their outdoor enclosure for the first time at the zoo in Zurich, Switzerland, Wednesday, April 8, 2009.
Photo by Patrick B. Kraemer
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