March 2009
Love, Mom, & Doree, Actually
karenuhoh:
doree:
Sooooo…. yes, I know I put up the photographic evidence yesterday, but my book LOVE, MOM: POIGNANT, GOOFY, BRILLIANT MESSAGES FROM HOME really, truly is out! And I’m not just saying this because I, uh, wrote it—the book really is the perfect Mother’s Day gift. Or perfect gift for your friend’s bathroom. Or perfect thing to buy if you just want to support Jessica and me!
You...
“But two years on, I find I’m expecting the internet, too, to start falling into...”
– Momus (via alexbalk)
By this metric, Denton is still the reigning king of new media.
My first YM reblog!
youngmanhattanite:
The comments group, Mr. Denton wrote in an instant message, is “like the effort to create a New York nightlife institution. Invite in too many people, and the cool kids will move on. You want them to bring their friends, but not too many of them.” Nick Denton was building a media elite for the electronic age, as he has for two decades.
Don’t know if you’d call them the “good”...
My chronic high blood pressure explained. →
(via alexbalk) Everything makes so much sense now. I can’t even taste food without my fix.
Death of the legal profession
karenuhoh:
doublethink:
We’re in the middle of a bloodbath of epic proportions in the legal market. Firms are laying off hundreds every week, and I predict another round of hundreds more in six months.
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The solution, I posit, is to drastically slash the list of ABA accredited schools, maybe down to 50-100, and stop giving people false hope that they can make a career out of...
“So while Rush holds no sway over things like policy and even Republican...”
– Pareene nails it
“Rush is to the Republicanism of the 2000s what Jesse Jackson was to the...”
– David Frum, a principled conservative. There aren’t many left. 