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March 31, 2008
Contemplating Pendejo
Last year, Gelf wrote about the troubles that the press has had with translating foreign expressions into English. One of the slang phrases that had caused the most trouble was the Spanish word pendejo, especially after Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez took to calling George Bush exactly that. The New York Times recently had similar troubles with the word.
Varsity Letters
March 21, 2008
April 3: Gelf's Varsity Letters on Baseball
Gelf's Varsity Letters sports reading series returns to New York on April 3 at 8 p.m. with an all-baseball program. At this free monthly event at a Lower East Side bar, hosted by Gelf, Stefan Fatsis, Jonathan Mayo, and Cait Murphy will read from and talk about their work, and take questions. Fatsis will sing the praises of his beloved baseball glove, Mayo will describe what it's like to stare down Roger Clemens in the batter's box, and Murphy will recount tales of the nuttiest season in baseball history, one century ago.
Media
March 19, 2008
What To Do About Online Meanies?
What should be done about the state of the online commenting system, in which anonymous trolls can visit newspaper sites and say mean things about one another and even, gasp, journalists? If you ask Edward Wasserman, a professor of journalism ethics at Washington and Lee University, something should definitely be done—he's just not sure what.
Media
March 14, 2008
The Times Gets Jiggy With It
Some—the old, white and privileged, mostly—would take umbrage at the suggestion that the mainstream media is still the firm province of the old, white and privileged. But consider the way the New York Times chronicles terms both pop cultural and rap-related. Channeling everyone's hopelessly-out-of-touch grandparent, the Times sees fit to highlight each modern vernacular curiosity it comes across, typically years late to the game, in a manner equal parts patronizing and amusing. Our current favorite comes in the Times' exclusive piece on Ashley Alexandra Dupré, one of ex-Governor Spitzer's partners in (state-funded?) bliss.
Full article » | by Adam Rosen
Non-Motivational
March 12, 2008
Gelf Presents The Non-Motivational Speaker Series
The Non-Motivational Speaker Series debuts in the Lower East Side, on Thursday, March 27, at 8 pm. Featured speakers are stand-up comic Kumail Nanjiani, recipient of "The Best Comedian Award" at the 2007 Chicago Comedy Awards; Patrice Evans (aka The Assimilated Negro, or TAN), a New York City-based writer, blogger, and producer; and Todd Hanson, longtime writer and editor at the Onion and co-author of Our Dumb World: The Onion's Atlas of the Planet Earth, 73rd Edition.
Full article » | by Adam Rosen
Internet
March 11, 2008
Client9.com
When the explosive story about his involvement in a prostitution ring first appeared on the New York Times website on Monday, Eliot Spitzer was identified only by the title of "Client 9." Nick Galbreath, a New York-based programmer, wasn't sure that the implicated bigwig was the governor, but, he tells Gelf, " 'Client 9' sounds cool, the story is huge, so as a goof I paid $10.13 to buy [the domain] a few minutes later."
Varsity Letters
March 4, 2008
Gelf's Varsity Letters: 3/6 Interviews
The sportswriters featured on Gelf's front page will be speaking spoke at a free Gelf event in New York on Thursday, March 6, at 8 p.m. Come by Thanks for coming by the Happy Ending Lounge to hear Andy Mendlowitz, Spike Vrusho, and members of the New York Daily News sports investigative team read from and discuss their writing.
Media
March 4, 2008
A Train Wreck of an Article
John McCain has a lot of reasons to thank the New York Times these days. Besides for the infamous He-May-Be-Screwing-A-Lobbyist Article, which ironically has helped McCain shore up the Republican base and raise a ton of money, the folks on the editorial side of the paper are also lobbing him softballs.
Sports
March 4, 2008
What's So Bad About Winning?
Imagine that you are the general manager of a Major League Baseball team and David Ortiz suddenly became available. All you have to do is pay his salary and you can pick up a player who is easily worth three wins over the course of a season without even putting on a baseball glove. And since you've already imagined this much, throw in the pipe dream that Ortiz has adopted a more athletic physique, and can now play left field for as many as 110 games a season. Unless you have absolutely no interest in baseball, you are well aware that I'm describing not Big Papi, but the readily available Barry Bonds, whose inability to land a suitor for his services is a pretty sure indicator that he is either the victim of collusion, or that major league teams hate winning games.
Full article » | by Jake Rake
Media
February 28, 2008
Post Poaches Puff Piece
Earlier in the week, the New York Post published a short piece entitled "Yankees Pinch-Hit for NYU"about the university's plan to hold graduation ceremonies at Yankee Stadium, and the anxiety that decision has caused some students who root for the Mets and Red Sox. A harmless, amusing piece of filler for the paper. Just a day earlier, however, NYU's campus newspaper, Washington Square News ran a very similar article on the same subject called, "Sox, Mets fans irked about grad spot."
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