2 days ago by petertypingfaster

In case you struggled with the hyperbole of the Vanity Fair piece I riffed off the other day, here’s an equally trenchant, though more restrained take on the same. Culturally, this has been the decade of the reality show. And what do we have to show for it? Not much more than the contestants themsel ...

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6 days ago by darkblack

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8 days ago by petertypingfaster

Vanity Fair has a charmingly over-the-top piece on how reality television has destroyed America. Now I’m no fan of reality television, but even I have a hard time chalking up all of society’s ills to reality tv, no matter how bad it is (alright…I might make an exception for Jersey Shore). Still, as ...

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8 days ago by Ellie

photo credit: timlewisnm How do you choose to see your world? Is it filled with things going wrong or are you filled with the confidence to carry you over, around and through whatever life throws you? E-mail me at Ellie@BouncebackCafe.com or leave a comment at the end of this post. We love hearing f ...

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8 days ago by Andrew

The Yiddish verb for complaining, kvetch—literally to squeeze or to crush—has an onomatopoetic quality to my ear. All of those consonant sounds, squashed into a single syllable, surrounding the explosive grunt of the short E sound, to me, like the prolonged insistence of a grievance. And who has not ...

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9 days ago by petertypingfaster

The Hollywood Reporter caught up with Zucker, and over the course of talking he dropped this little gem. We have underinvested in development (at NBC Entertainment) over the last few years. That has been a mistake. Yeah…I think it’s safe to call that a mistake. It’s about content people! Without con ...

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12 days ago by Brian Hedden

(all photo: Brian Hedden) Tree stands have popped up all across the borough. This one is somewhere in Bay Ridge, probably on 4th Avenue, probably in the mid- to high-60s. I don’t remember exactly – I was actually quite drunk at time, and in retrospect was quite lucky to take this photo without the h ...

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19 days ago by thnidu

Just sent to the InformAction, the publishers of the NoScript add-in for Firefox: I use NoScript, and I love it. But it's not the only FireFox add-in I use. After this morning's NoScript update, when I followed the link from your info page saying " Top tip! Click here to check if your drivers are up ...

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21 days ago by thnidu

Apparently so. I subscribe to something called CarePages, which offers support for people with cancer and their families. Today's mailing led off with a blurb for a page called "5 Spiritual Books That May Inspire You". Those books turn out to be the following, listed as shown with an ... explanation ...

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24 days ago by pgt

TANOVSKI & PARTNERS 2.0 - mengensatz.de/blog