G&S Reads! A lot!
Armed with his second extra-strong cup of coffee and a near-empty pack of Parliaments (recommended by most Defense Against the Dark Arts professors), HH went off to read the Times today, and came back with only the best for G&S readers. That's right - we digest the NYT so you can save your Tums for that ill-conceived order of Eggs Benedict.- On the front page, Sharon's condition, Delay's departure, and Katrina reconstruction.
- Sports breaks the Angelos-is-a-moron story wide open (easy winner of the "Duh" award), but redeems itself with an insightful Sports of the Times piece on the quagmire with Cuba and the World Baseball Classic.
- In the Book Review, Christopher Buckley tackles Dog Days, the first novel from Ana Marie Cox (aka Wonkette), and actually likes it. More importantly, the by-line notes that a film adaptation of Buckley's own Thank You For Smoking (probably the best modern Washington satire novel ever) comes out in March. Count on a "G&S Spends Too Much Money At Movie Theaters" post when that happens. [UPDATE: Buckley's review is now available free., HERE.]
- My favorite Sunday section, the Week in Review, includes a few solid pieces on Sharon, and a lackluster op-ed page. In other words, I'll spare you. AlthoughDavid Brooks offers his amusing stuffy-old-man take on online-community websites. [And again, it's Times Select. Apologies.]
- A special "Education Life" section includes articles on Harvard getting with the program and the larger distribution requirement debate [including Education of Henry Adams allusions], A.P. course crazy-go-nuts syndrome, and the dangers of Mom, Dad, and Chief Wiggum reading your Facebook page.
- In Sunday Business, Daniel Gross (who, as you may know, is an idiot) offers a pretty flighty look at flattening yield curves worldwide. His conclusion: yield curves are flattening worldwide, and, yeah...that's it.
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Comments on "G&S Reads! A lot!"
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Hired Hand said ... (11:29 AM) :
post a commentThanks, HH, for the yeoman effort. But, I have a minor quibble with nominating Thank You for Smoking as the best modern Washington novel ever. While the book is a worthy effort (and especially notable in the current lobbyists-are-scum climate), I still think that Christopher Buckley's earlier effort, The White House Mess should stand at the top of the list.
Thanks, Oldtimer. I still feel that TYFS is better than TWHM, if only for the fact that the narrator/protagonist actually DOES something, instead of just talking about other people doing stuff. Plus, I think that he finally got into the groove with Thank You For Smoking, whereas The White House Mess still had a bit of sour grapes from Bush '92.
FYI, a brief look at IMDB's entry for "Thank You For Smoking" indicates that while Nick Naylor is being played by some nobody (Aaron Eckhart?), a number of big stars make appearances: Robert Duvall (a GF favorite), William H. Macy, Maria Bello, Adam Brody (aka Seth Cohen), Katie Holmes as Heather Holloway (saucy reporter), and Kim Dickens (aka Joanie Stubbs on Deadwood) as Jill Naylor.
Get out the camcorders. We got some bootleggin' to do, hoss.