Coming up: a special ArtSunday preview
Here’s a preview of this week’s ArtSunday feature, with some comments from the editor at the end. King Subway (Tokyo Station)—October, 1988▲
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Saturday Video Roundup: a tribute to Stacy’s really hot parents
I think we all understand that Stacy’s mom has got it going on.
Read moreWhat America needs now is Tricky Dick Nixon (no, I’m not joking)
Let me give you a definition of the word ‘liberal.’…Franklin D. Roosevelt once said…It is a wonderful definition, and I agree with him. ‘A liberal is a man who wants to build bridges over the chasms that separate humanity from a better life.’ – Richard Milhous Nixon Richard Nixon was our last liberal president. – Noam Chomsky In June of
Read moreBarack Obama, bipartisan man of mystery
As I’ve noted before, we don’t often do “hey, go read this” posts at S&R. But hey, go read this. …let’s just say that Obama’s continuing insistence on compromising, his continuing faith in bipartisanship despite two and a half years of evidence that these people don’t do compromise and will never make a deal, is looking obsessive and compulsive. Yep.
Read more3x3x3: Amy Winehouse joins rock & roll’s celebrated 27 Club
If there’s a rock and roll heaven, you know they’ve got a hell of a band. – Alan O’Day and Johnny Stevenson British neo-soul superstar Amy Winehouse joined The 27 Club yesterday. If you haven’t heard of this select group, the term refers to all the musicians who have died at the age of 27. It’s a pretty famous crowd.
Read moreSaturday Video Roundup: RIP, Amy Winehouse
Amy Winehouse is dead at 27. Sadly, it was only a matter of time, and my friends, who have heard me crack wise time and time again about whether she would live to record another CD, knew that I wasn’t really joking. Goodbye, Amy. We hate how it went down, but we celebrate your music.
Read moreAtlantis makes final touchdown
Eleventh in a series
Read moreMary Shelley LIVES! (Romantics, Luddites, runaway technology, science fiction and the persistence of the Frankenstein Complex)
Oh, yeah. Oooh, ahhh, that’s how it always starts. Then later there’s running and screaming. – Dr. Ian Malcolm Mary Shelley spent the summer of 1816 at the Villa Diodati near Lake Geneva, Switzerland with her husband, poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, and their close friend Lord Byron “watching the rain come down, while they all told each other ghost stories.”
Read moreEXCLUSIVE: S&R obtains copy of Rupert Murdoch’s original, unedited apology
News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch has issued a public apology for the News of the World scandal, which appears in several British national newspapers this weekend. The final text is available here. For those unfamiliar with the exciting world of public relations, these kinds of official statements often go through a rigorous process of draft, revision, review, more revision, show
Read moreVan Jones vs. the cult of personality (plus a little Saturday Video Roundup)
This morning I got an e-mail from a colleague who’s working with the American Dream Movement. Said friend is all-in with the goals and values of the project, but is stepping cautiously where Van Jones, the movement’s leader, is concerned. It’s nothing against Jones personally, I don’t think – my friend seems to admire him a great deal and thinks
Read moreHeard the latest PR joke? (The single most important thing to consider when TV news wants to skewer your client.)
Yesterday Ragan’s PR Daily, an excellent resource for professional communicators of all stripes, offered up a feature entitled “8 things to consider when TV news wants to skewer your client.” As is the usually the case with Ragan’s stuff, Gil Rudawsky’s article provided some useful on-point advice for the media relations practitioner, and the comment thread finds other experienced folks
Read moreA quick shout-out: thinking and writing about our frustration with Obama
Here at S&R we try and generate as much original content as possible and, unlike a lot of blogs, we don’t dedicate much energy to linking other stories around the ‘sphere. Aside from Mike’s Nota Bene series, anyway. But earlier today three other outlets linked to my “Will you vote for Obama (again)?” piece, and since these places are trying
Read moreWill you vote for Obama (again)?
One of my political lists broke out into an impassioned and occasionally contentious debate yesterday over a basic question: do you plan on voting for Obama in 2012? (Actually, the original phrasing was more along the lines of “how could you possibly vote for Obama in 2012?”) If you’ve been paying any attention at all to the conduct of Mr.
Read moreHope we can believe in
In case you missed it, the US women just overcame an officiating debacle of Coulibalian proportions to beat Brazil in penalty kicks. Hope Solo, I love you. Call me.
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