What a great magazine- October 18, 2005 Don't you just love the Times Magazine I have subscriptions to about six different magazines and I can't even bring myself to flip through them most months. (A friend picked a copy of Vanity Fair off the coffee table last week and sniffed all the perfume ads. That's the most anyone has gotten out of it in awhile.) But the Times--as dry as I find the newspaper (with brilliant exceptions here and there), that magazine has some incredible writing week in, week out. And interesting stories....http://blogs.salon.com/0001137/categories/media/2005/10/17.html#a1743 The upside of covering Columbine- October 11, 2005 I was just directed to this interesting site called The Trenchcoat Chronicles (tag line, "Poking society in the eye with a sharp pointy stick") and oddly enough, the latest post was about Columbine. One of those whacked out readers writing to him praising the killers. Ugh. I just had a brief email exchange with the author of the site, and he lamented that "unfortunately guys like that are an everyday occurence at my site." Double ugh. Luckily they're not around here, for whatever reason...http://blogs.salon.com/0001137/categories/media/2005/10/11.html#a1728 |