Chris Faile

How much I look forward to this on Friday mornings!

Deborah Cohen's "Last Call at the Hotel Imperial" -- about a number of foreign correspondents in the run up to World War II, as well as its aftermath -- is the best book I've read so far this year.

Oftentimes Politico has really good work, but not a week goes by where it doesn't earn its denigrating "Tiger Beat on the Potomac" nickname with a piece like this.

Trading Lawson for a Nuzzi is a ***big*** step down.

And yet, had we not, do you not admit you'd also be complaining...? 😀

Does he do comms for a public company? :)

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Much love to Ninth Street Espresso for introducing me to this wonderfulness: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JC06...

I'd give you a 5:1 odds for that one.

I now want to hear this beatdown-slash-interview!

You trying to establish an alibi??? :)

I'm very, very, VERY nervous about what tomorrow will bring.

One of the best little details from the Johnny Carson biography was that "The Tonight Show" head writer had a sign above his desk reading thusly:

IT LEFT HERE FUNNY.

This should be in *every* comedy writer's room.

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I've watched this four times now, and still have no friggin' clue what it's a chart of.

How many headlines and chyrons saying they "fled" annoyed me to no end.

(Looks up when it was released -- 1981! -- swears mightily after doing the math.)

Found on the sidewalk in front of an apartment complex, guessing they made the move. Not a bad list, maybe?

I'd go even farther in calling you delightfully normal, sorta.

Meet in the middle and do Capris?

What are the chances that someone pranked him on his cell phone? (It ain't 0%.)

Don't forget the quiz on each T&C you have to get above an 80% score on!

Almost expected to find out that the first letter in each sentence was a very-grovely "HIRE ME PLEASE."

Young people won’t, or can’t, read a book. Now democracy is dying. Coincidence? | Will Bunch A viral conversation about the near-death of reading by U.S. college students in the iPhone era reveals a threat to democracy.

While I'm not surprised, this is still very depressing to read: www.inquirer.com/opinion/stud...

I blame these little scrappers:

To be fair, CNN did have Phil Mattingly, who’s been on the eco beat.

From the Washington Post Saturday, though:

Does this mean you're leaving WaPo too???

Or this guy!:

Please tell me the site is paying for your ticket and expects us all to live precariously through your day!

Oh geez. 😀 I suspect my first apartment had them, but also made a plea to them that I never see them and we'd have no issues...

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