January 2009
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A Butcher’s Tale: Inside the New Carnivore Movement
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“From earliest childhood I was charmed by the materials of my craft, by pencils and paper and, later, by the typewriter and the entire apparatus of printing. To condense from one’s memories and fantasies and small discoveries dark marks on paper which become handsomely reproducible many times over still seems to me, after nearly 30 years concerned with the making of books, a magical act, and a delightful technical process. To distribute oneself thus, as a kind of confetti shower falling upon the heads and shoulders of mankind out of bookstores and the pages of magazines is surely a great privilege and a defiance of the usual earthbound laws whereby human beings make themselves known to one another.”
—John Updike would not have liked Twitter
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“Dec. 9 to my family, to us, to me, is what Pearl Harbor Day was to the United States. It was a complete surprise, completely unexpected. And just like the United States prevailed in that, we’ll prevail in this.”
—Gov. Rod Blagojevich (via Ben)
“The other week I got sick and watched Friday Night Lights for like two days straight. And the next day I went into work and gave the interns the most rip-roaring pep talk about fact-checking…”
—Ryan
'Correction, Jesus'
Not to be all real-publications-do-reporting-and-blogs-make-things-up or anything, but what is the point of reading Gawker?
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Ya know what’s weird? The Post hasn’t put Sean Delonas’ cartoon of Sunday, January 18th online, even though the cartoons that proceeded it and all three subsequent cartoons are available. Maybe it’s just a simple oversight, right? I mean, I’m sure it’s got nothing to do with how incredibly offensive the panel—a flock of Canadian geese deliberate flying into a jet engine while yelling “Allah akhbar”—itself was: Since when has that kind of offensiveness bothered the paper before?
