PaulThology

The AJC sure is generous. Today on the AJC home page, center fielder Andruw Jones and his family’s home is “featured.” Featured in the way a seller’s agent features their “open house of the week.” Andruw’s baseball contract is up, and rather than having a stellar year that would make his agent […]

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…and lose almost all of my knowledge and ability to comprehend simple concepts, I’ll…WRITE FOR BUSINESSWEEK MAGAZINE!
I found this piece of literary genius today, in BusinessWeek’s May 2007 article, “The 25 Best Affordable Suburbs in the South”
Despite the boom, Cary (NC) still doesn’t feel like a big city. Maybe that’s because it lacks big-city prices—half of all […]

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Somehow the high-minded nature of this Time magazine/LA Times “Critic” could not escape me. Under his theory, no book can be judged by itself, but instead must somehow have relativity to the rest of the author’s body of work. Rubbish. When I say Andruw Jones didn’t play well yesterday because he struck […]

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Now with ABC News, Amanda Congdon hosts a weekly video blog that is about five minutes long. It’s not even half as funny as the original Rocketboom, and she seems to be overacting to cover up for the lack of creative subject matter. I still watch her, but am frustrated for her. […]

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Perhaps the most honest quote I’ve ever heard…
(On the earlier switch to Daylight Savings Time and its possible negative impact on US television viewership)“We let them get out of the habit of watching television a little bit, and it’s going to take some time to get these people back in front of their television sets,” […]

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Have you ever been involved in a lengthy two-sided tit-for-tat email conversation, being CC’ed but never included?
That’s how I’ve felt this week with the back-and-forth between Don Imus and the Rutgers women’s basketball team. Like the Rosie O’Donnell-Donald Trump thing. Like the Anna Nicole Smith “who’s the dad” ‘news.’
While you could argue the […]

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I don’t own a Slingbox. If I did, I wouldn’t want to watch MY television, I’d want to watch SOMEONE ELSE’S. Like Jeff Boulter. It’s called “place-shifting,” and until I have on-demand access to the entire world’s localized content, I won’t be fully satisfied. The Media Daily News covered the 2007 services you’re […]

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I watched Diane Sawyer’s Primetime special tonight on North Korea. With little past knowledge of the North Korean lifestyle, I was seriously enlightened as to their seclusion and “because we don’t want to become political prisoners that don’t really exist” nationalism.
Enlightened enough to Google “kim jong il” AND “nutcase” together.
Google first warned me that I […]

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This week has been an odd one, as I followed the story of James Kim quite closely, the CNET digital audio editor who got stranded with his family in Oregon, himself perishing after hiking out to seek help after a week without signs of a rescue on the way. The takeaways I have at this […]

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Big ‘Ole Sports Media has a problem. They still think they have to uphold some standards that nobody else cares about, the same standards that might be writing their epitaph. If they keep getting rid of each commentator for enlivening the broadcast with some of their personality, we’ll all be tuning out the audio portion […]

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