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Sidney Harmon bought Newsweek for a dollar. Not one copy of the magazine, the whole company. I know you can get a back issue for $8.95, and I think the newsstand price for a single copy is $5.95, but no newsstand in my neighborhood carries it. That sounds like a much better deal than it is because the magazine is hemorrhaging money and in the deal, Mr. Harmon assumes the magazine’s debts too. But he”s a billionaire, so he probably knows something I don’t.
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I read this morning that there are 667-thousand millionaires in the State of New York. That certainly makes me feel like a loser.
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I couldn’t believe it. During Shark Week on the Discovery Channel, they had a show called “Great White Shark: Uncaged.” At the beginning of the show, they actually had a warning on the screen, “Do Not Try This At Home.” Don’t worry; I’m not even going to try it in the ocean.
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You folks aren’t doing your part. I’ve been trying to introduce a new phrase into the English language. I’ve asked you to help spread it around and I still haven’t heard anyone else use it yet. You know what A.S.A.P. means, right? I’m still trying to replace it with M.S.T.P., much sooner than possible, and I need your help.
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I learned from seeing a picture of Chelsea Clinton walking down the aisle with her father that she’s considerably taller than I thought she was.
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Ed Lowe, a man I used to see frequently when I was a reporter and a man whose work I still admire believes that being crazy isn’t a problem; it’s a solution to a problem.
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It disturbs me more than a little that if I say “Snooki,” you probably know who I’m talking about. It disturbs me even more that when I say “Snooki,” I know who I’m talking about.
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I’ve never met the woman, but it appears to me that the shirt Snooki was wearing last Friday when she was arrested is redundant.
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Things were going so well, but now I’m regretting that I have a ticket to the Mets-Phillies game a week from Friday at Citi Field.
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Some of the things I write here are expressions of frustration, hence the name of the blog. Sometimes I’m talking about what interests me. A lot of the time, I’m trying to be funny. Sometimes I’m just trying to get what’s on my mind off my chest.
