Archive for April 23rd, 2007

Monday, April 23rd, 2007

Mommy Blogging

My mother, Suzanne Ruta, writes in with this recollection of Halberstam:
I knew Halberstam, my first year at NYU I was sent to help his then wife, Polish actress Elzbieta Czyzewska, lose her accent so she could achieve in the U.S. the status she had in Poland, where she was a leading film and stage star. [...]

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Monday, April 23rd, 2007

Oh!

David Halberstam. May he rest in peace.

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Monday, April 23rd, 2007

Deal or No Deal

It’s financial story day in the MSM.
The Washington Post takes a look at how John Edwards spent the past two years as an adviser to an investment firm known for its hedge funds based in the Cayman Islands. And The Chicago Sun-Times gives us day one of a two-day investigation into Barack Obama’s relationship with [...]

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Monday, April 23rd, 2007

Chicken, Egg, Blog

Matt Ygglz digs up this funny dcist story about how our neighborhood (I can see my building from his yard) is the second bloggiest neighborhood in America, which makes me wonder about the causality involved: Is it that people who blog tend to move here, or that people who move here start to blog? And [...]

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