AND THEN THERE WAS ONE: Robert Gates new Non-NEO-CON Secretary of Defense, tasked with making Baker-advised cut n’ run look like Peace With Honor. Good luck to you, Sir!
LOCAL BOY MAKES GOOD: Music Man Hal Wilner Phones Home, DeLuca Accepts The Charges
On this Saturday afternoon, Willner, the record producer renowned for daring multi-artist albums such as his new The Harry Smith Project: Anthology of American Folk Music Revisited, is wearing his hat as music director of Saturday Night Live. On his desk at 30 Rock, there are Cecil Taylor and Jelly Roll Morton CDs, and across his T-shirt Chuck Berry is doing the duck walk as Willner goes about the nerve-wracking task of scoring a live television show that is being rewritten as the day goes on. […] His far-ranging musical sensibility makes Willner, 49, the perfect man for this job […]
THIS JUST IN: AMANDA BENNETT OUT AS INKY EDITOR, NPR’S BILL MARIMOW IN
Announced just minutes ago in a newsroom meeting at 400 North Broad. Also, Inquirer Editorial Page Editor Chris Satullo now to report directly to publisher Brian Tierney. More details as they come in. In the meantime, here’s Marimow’s CV: Bill Marimow is NPR?s ombudsman, a position he assumed in October 2006. Before joining NPR in May 2004, Marimow had worked in newspapers for the previous 34 years. He was editor of The Baltimore Sun for four years, beginning in 2000, and managing editor for six years before that. During his years at The Sun, the newspaper received Pulitzer Prizes for […]
FEARMONGER: Meaningless Terror War News
We will not miss stories like this clogging media arteries like a hot pork injection: Threatening Note Found on Philadelphia Plane, Prompts Search A plane that was heading to Philadelphia from San Diego, was searched after a passenger reported finding a threatening note onboard. After the flight landed around 3pm on Tuesday, it was held for about an hour, while it was searched by a bomb squad. It was searched in a remote location, and the runway where it landed was shut down.The passengers and crew that were on the plane, were transported to the terminal by bus. After the […]
Later Today on JUNK SCIENCE: For God Sakes Man, Put Down That Pepsi Or You’ll Kill Us ALL!
COMING THIS AFTERNOON, BECAUSE IT’S WHAT YOU DON’T KNOW THAT CAN HURT YOU….REAL BAD, YO.
GRUMPY OLD MEN: Sir, The Barbarians Are At The Gate
Sidney Blumenthal is the former Assistant and Senior Adviser to President Clinton; author of “How Bush Rules: Chronicles of a Radical Regime,” “The Clinton Wars,” and other books including “The Permanent Campaign,” “The Rise of the Counter-Establishment” ( New York Times Notable Book of the Year), “Our Long National Daydream,” and “Pledging Allegiance: The Last Campaign of the Cold War”(New York Times Notable Book of the Year); current columnist for The Guardian of London and Salon.com; former staff writer for The Washington Post, The New Yorker and The New Republic and contributing writer for Vanity Fair; playwright of the widely […]
These Are Your Rights: WAR IS OVER, IF YOU WANT IT
From: sean@r5productions.com Subject: [R5] Hey You! Don’t Forget To Vote Today ! Date: November 7, 2006 2:27:23 AM EST To: ALL Hello – Just a reminder for you go out and vote today (no matter who the candidate) In Pennsylvania (and Philadelphia) voting takes place between 7:00 AM and 8:00 PM. To find your polling place go to this page and enter in the address where you last registered to vote. If you moved since 2004 and you did not register, you can still vote at your old polling place! See this blog post for more info. Our friends getting […]
NPR FOR THE DEAF: We Hear It Even When You Can’t
Analyzing Chalabi’s Place in Iraq After ‘Plan A’ Fresh Air from WHYY, November 7, 2006 — In the cover story of this week’s New York Times Magazine Dexter Filkins (pictured) writes about the predicament of Ahmad Chalabi: “Once Iraq’s anointed leader — anointed by the Americans — Chalabi, at age 62, is without a job, spurned by the very colleagues whose ascension he engineered.” The title of the piece is “Where Plan A Left Ahmad Chalabi.” ‘The New York Times Magazine’ The DVD Room By John Powers One DVD Collection, 50 Movies Film critic John Powers reviews a new […]
REMINDER: You Heard It First, Folks
Phawker, November 2nd: Inquirer To Lose 150 Jobs Rest of Media, November 7th: THIS JUST IN Inquirer To Lose 150 Jobs
THIS BAND COULD BE YOUR LIFE
THESE ARE YOUR RIGHTS: Torture Is Over If You Want It
WHY WE FIGHT: Stuck In The Court Of The Crimson-Faced King, A Weary Nation Says No Mas; Meanwhile Back In America, Citizens Celebrate THROW THE BUMS OUT Day By Going To The Polls In Record Numbers
Turns out the Washington Press Corps was right. It wasn’t funny. It was sad but true. On every level.
IN OTHER WAR NEWS: Drug War Still Goin’ Great Guns; 25 lbs. of Mary Jane Misdelivered To Frankford K-Mart Leads To Arrest of 15-Year-Old In Pharr, TX; Oddly They Not Only Know This In Wichita Falls But, Like, They Care
Philly police get blue green light special drug bust PHILADELPHIA — A 25-pound package of marijuana mistakenly delivered to a Kmart store has led police to an alleged drug packaging operation. Police received a call Saturday that employees at a Kmart in Philadelphia’s Frankford neighborhood had accidentally received a package from the South Texas border town of Pharr.Officer Steve Wallace says an employee opened the package and realized it was actually marijuana. Police say they delivered the misdirected mail to the 36-year-old addressee, who signed for the package and was arrested.Authorities say another person then picked up the package and […]
FORECAST: Still Always Sunny In Philadelphia, ALWAYS
‘Sunny’ keeps shining on FXNet brings back laffer for third season By Denise Martin of Variety FX is bringing back critically acclaimed laffer “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” for a third season. Danny DeVito has committed to continue as a series regular for all subsequent seasons. Renewal makes “Sunny” the most successful comedy on basic cable in recent years and one of the few scripted, live-action primetime laffers to make it to a third season on ad-supported cable. FX has greenlit 15 new half-hours to begin production next spring for a premiere in summer. […] Second season averaged 1.3 million […]