Achenblog - The Washington Post's Joel Achenbach on whatever strikes his fancy - October 25, 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...