Day: February 10, 2009

  • Recessionary times

    At first I chuckled when I read this New York magazine article, thinking it was some unapologetic “What, too soon?” parody on the incessant recession-related articles. How could it not be, with gems such as from this one “Ross Tillman”? My girlfriend goes to job one and job two every day; if only I had…

  • Maddicts Manonymous

    In my terribly long absence, I bought, started, watched, finished, cried at (without shame) the complete series of The Wire, which is most epic. I’ll throw my hat in with Barack Obama and every nerdy, underpaid television columnist at every newspaper who say, uniformly: “The best television series ever.” I had actually bought the first…