Sunday, December 12, 2004

I think we've figured out the perfect time to beat the breakfast rush at Smith Street Diner: just before 10, when the pre-church crowd has finished and the bed-head crowd is only starting to trickle in. Watching the latter cohort reminds me of Sundays at Dean's Diner in Ardmore, PA, where Haverford and Bryn Mawr students could enjoy a hot meal while goggling at the unlikely couples who showed up together on the morning after the night before. 4:57:09 PM    comment []

Another Greensboro landmark gone. N&R: Grove Street Cafe closing. 9:40:37 AM    comment []

Bush meets Iraqi bloggers. Tres cool. Jarvis: "The brothers said they were in the White House not just as Iraqi citizens but as representatives of the blogosphere." 9:38:08 AM    comment []

Newsday says Kerik's flameout hurts Giuliani's chances for the White House. What chances? Could somebody explain to me, real slow and in small words, how an acerbic, pro-choice, pro-gay-rights pol who went through a messy public divorce is going to get the GOP nomination anyway? 8:21:14 AM    comment []

Jay Ovittore: "I devoted 24 years of my life to playing music in clubs much like the one Damageplan played on December 8th." An essay about metal, community, and Dimebag Darrell. 8:18:13 AM    comment []

Online alt-media in this morning's N&R: "A new kind of alternative press is emerging in Greensboro. The writers are local people who publish at their own Web sites. As individuals, these bloggers offer reporting and commentary that is useful, provocative and addictive. Collectively, they are building what could become the most important information channel to hit town since television arrived just after World War II.... "...This thing will happen if a few people get paid, or a lot of people, or nobody. That's one measure of its real value. And that's the real local news." My newspaper column aims to tell the big newspaper audience what we've been talking about here lately -- as discussed, I don't know how this is going to work as a business, but I think it makes sense to get the readers and writers involved before we start counting the money... Read the whole thing. 8:15:36 AM    comment []