Sick, sick, sick. That’s me. Head about to implode, mouth perpetually agape, sinuses making new enemies. Must return to bed. I’ve been running a lot since I got back to D.C. (well, a lot by my piddly standards — 10 miles in the last five days). Hope the illness isn’t related to that — my body was probably pretty worn out already after all my travel of late.

A few links of note:

Great piece on Larry King. I’ve never read a piece that ends up with ol’ Larry standing as a symbol and defender of solid journalism. Bravo to Joe Hagan for getting those juicy quotes.

The pool report from Bush’s Thanksgiving Iraq visit.

Colin Meloy, leader of crabwalk.com favorites the Decemberists, follows Joe Pernice’s lead and writes a book for the 33 1/3 series. Colin’s is on the Replacements’ Let It Be.

Kevin Kelly’s Cool Tools, for those with Christmas shopping lists left to fill. Kelly’s got quite a background — very polymath. (Although it is a little strange to have Wired News writing a piece about how great ex-Wired editor Kelly is.)

Jack Shafer on newspaper’s traditional reluctance to defend themselves. Tell it, brother — it’s such a pain when people attack your stories for clearly illogical, self-interest-motivated reasons and you can’t defend your journalistic honor. It’s not The Newspaper Way (as opposed to The Magazine Way, which typically allows reporters the chance to respond to attacks). Bonus points (I think, at least) for Shafer’s use of the phrase “splitting more hairs than a palsied barber.”

Speaking of which, I need a haircut.

04 December 2003

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