"Reax Quotes"

Aug 27 2008 ∞

“ There’s a passon, there’s a knowing. In a way, you almost have to know how to be a journalist before you commit to being one. If you find out something you can do well, I don’t care if it’s whittling wood, or fixing a car, or writing a lead, if you find out you’re good at being a reporter, you just want that over and over again. You want the reinforcement, you want that feeling. I know what I’m doing. It feels good to know what you’re doing. A lot of people walking around don’t know what they’re doing, in anything. In any way. And this is someting that is pretty easily measured. Did I win today?

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Terry Fiedler, of the Minneapolis Star Tribune, in 2006 (from David Carr’s “Night of the Gun”)

Aug 22 2008 ∞

Bob Saget Popular Only on TV, Not on Web

More than 3 million people watched the roast of Bob Saget on Comedy Central this past past Sunday, not including the repeat directly afterwards and subsequent playback, according to Broadcasting & Cable. Throughout the show, the channel promoted various extras on its website, with the most prominent being Saget’s reaction to the roast after the show ended.

I didn’t think of that until I viewed the above story and went to the Comedy Central’s minisite. The amount of views that the much-promoted Saget video garned? About 38,000 views, as of this writing. All told, this all seems awfully low, given the amount of people who watched.

Am I wrong?

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Aug 21 2008 ∞

This column by WaPo ombudsman Deborah Howell over the weekend drove me absolutely batty:

Barack Obama has had about a 3 to 1 advantage over Republican John McCain in Post Page 1 stories since Obama became his party’s presumptive nominee June 4.

Good work, Deborah, and congratulations on being able to both count that high and do basic division.

But, really, do pure numbers tell the whole story? Can you do something a little more scientific than this basic arithmatic? Your quick analysis provided little info in this way.

Anything you can tell us about the stories qualitatively, rather than quantitatively?

Anything?

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What I Do Know: I Have One Very Small Apartment

Everyone seems to be talking today about John McCain not knowing how many houses he owns (what a nice problem to have), but the Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza makes a really good call this afternoon:

“If Obama’s campaign had planned to roll out their vice presidential pick at any point today, that announcement is likely to be put on hold. Why? The campaign believes the story about McCain’s many houses is political gold and they won’t want to step on it with a veep announcement that would immediately change the day’s storyline.”

This could last a bit, I think— maybe he won’t announce his VP choice until next week now?

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johncarney:

This is even funnier if you know that cajunboy is homeless.

He’s not homeless, he lives in a van down by the (East) river!

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Yes, Indeed.

I just updated my blog design. A certain someone showed me how to do and I scurriously ganked another friend’s design.

More new-ness: A new title as well (“Reax Quotes”), and you can see what other tumblrs I read. Obviously, you can tell I read mostly beautiful people.

Aug 19 2008 ∞

He's Funnier than Jon Lovitz at Least, Right?

I may cause the Internets to explode in laughter in a few days time— I just nominated Brian Van for the Hot Bloggers competition. As a joke, obviously.

My evidence for this particular nomination? This and this alone. Anyone else want to make sure he gets nominated?

Aug 18 2008 ∞

I'm an Evil Person, Apparently

I’m pretty sure I stiffed the Gem Spa bodega this morning, given the 25-cent price hike of the New York Times. I grabbed my normal gaggle of papers, threw my normal number of dollar bills to the gentleman manning the window and ran off to my next stop, the Mud Truck.

I promise to make it up to them tomorrow.

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Uh Oh...Could "Watchmen" Film Never See the Light of Day? (Commence Geek-Out Now.)

Ouch, Warner Bros, ouch.

“In essence, the Judge appears to conclude that Fox retained distribution rights in Watchmen through the 1991 Largo quitclaim, and he concludes that, under the 1994 turnaround, producer Larry Gordon acquired an option to acquire Fox’s remaining interest in Watchmen that was never exercised, thereby leaving Fox with its rights under the 1994 agreement.”