Achenblog: October 25, 2009 - October 31, 2009
My Office, Which Is Mine
As you know, while they're blowing up the Post newsroom I've been sent to a Siberian redoubt in an adjacent building, a bunker of sorts that I will not disparage other than to note factually that it is devoid...
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October 31, 2009; 12:02 PM ET |
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Booze Or Alien Abduction?
Last week I heard Al Michaels on Sunday Night Football plug the new alien-abduction movie "The Fourth Kind" with some remark about it being based on real events. Seems to me that, no matter whether NBC is getting paid to...
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Joel Achenbach
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October 30, 2009; 10:35 AM ET |
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Tell Me A Story
[My story in the Style section.] Gary Smith writes very long stories for a living. They run 8,000 words. He crafts four of them a year for Sports Illustrated. He is a throwback, a spinner of yarns in what...
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Joel Achenbach
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October 28, 2009; 9:48 PM ET |
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Paperboys
I started as a paperboy, nine years old. The Sun was an afternoon paper then, except on the weekends, when I had to get up before dawn. Usually my step-father drove our old Chevy up and down the street...
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October 28, 2009; 10:35 AM ET |
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Stephanopoulos doesn't need 'Good Morning America'
You've read the stories about how ABC News is thinking of making George Stephanopoulos a co-host on Good Morning America. Stephanopoulos supposedly is trying out for the job and vying with news reader Andrew Cuomo for the slot soon...
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Joel Achenbach
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October 26, 2009; 7:34 PM ET |
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Planning My Day
Went for a brisk walk and planned my day. Have much to do. Am a busy man. The key thing is to plan, to map out the day intellectually, combining serious purpose with vigor and dash. Overlooking the Potomac...
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October 26, 2009; 9:31 AM ET |
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