The Doree Chronicles

See you all after the Fourth! Enjoy the Internet! Whee!

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:05:08 -0400

See you all after the Fourth! Enjoy the Internet! Whee!

When a dog falls in love with a ram. - By Jon Katz - Slate...

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:28:03 -0400

When a dog falls in love with a ram. - By Jon Katz - Slate Magazine

Neighborhood news

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:59:24 -0400

I saw a sign in the window of the Applebee’s at Flatbush and DeKalb that they now have cake from Cake Man Raven on the menu. The sign had a big slice of red velvet cake on it. I have never had this supposedly wondrous cake. Cake cake cake cake cake.

Oh yeah...

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:10:55 -0400

I wrote this piece for the Observer this week about assistants. Don’t worry, it’s already been criticized in all the predictable corners.

And speaking of:

Friend: i lvoe when they try to start fights w/ you
me: oh yeah, it’s so boring
Friend: hahaha
but theyt ry so hard to engage you in a faux feud
it’s pretty amusing

Life imitates The Wire

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 22:44:04 -0400

Life imitates The Wire

Bikes and beer

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:34:19 -0400

The owner of the Brooklyn Brewery is peeved that he can’t find space to expand in New York City, and it does sound like he’s getting sorta screwed over. But when I read this it made me recall that his son got killed while riding his bike on the Manhattan Bridge a few months ago.

Apocalypse Now

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:12:35 -0400

Grogan Returns
Author of the bestselling Marley & Me John Grogan’s new memoir, THE LONGEST TRIP HOME, has been announced for publication on October 21 by William Morrow. “From his troublemaking childhood to his courtship of a fiery blond named Jenny, Grogan writes about how he came to terms with who he is and what he believes.” It’s called the “story of a son in the making, and of growing up in a loving, but comically old-school Catholic family.”

Grogan says in the announcement, “Even before Marley & Me was published, I knew this was the story I wanted to tell next. The Longest Trip Home is a story very close to my heart.”

He’ll promote his children’s book A Very Marley Christmas, releasing September 30, while touring for the new memoir, and the film version of Marley (starring Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston) is set for release on Christmas day.

The "Power Stick"

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:16:25 -0400

I loved this email we got on Postcards From Yo Momma from a mom telling her daughter not to give her ex-boyfriend the “power stick.” She starts out with: “It’s kind of nice for the ego - that he called, right?” Ha!

Summer Guide 2008 - How to Pick, Prepare, and Eat a Lobster...

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 09:42:29 -0400

Summer Guide 2008 - How to Pick, Prepare, and Eat a Lobster — New York Magazine

Talk about not being afraid to be servicey! Then again, that’s practically NYM’s raison d’etre. (And not in a bad way! It just is.) Anyways, I’m heading to Maine at the end of the week for an honest-to-God vacation, and this will come in extremely handy, for real. So, thanks, Adam Moss! You always know how to anticipate and fulfill my needs in this teeming metropolis.

"According to data compiled by Andrew Tyndall, a television consultant who monitors the three network..."

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 21:37:16 -0400

“

According to data compiled by Andrew Tyndall, a television consultant who monitors the three network evening newscasts, coverage of Iraq has been “massively scaled back this year.” Almost halfway into 2008, the three newscasts have shown 181 weekday minutes of Iraq coverage, compared with 1,157 minutes for all of 2007. The “CBS Evening News” has devoted the fewest minutes to Iraq, 51, versus 55 minutes on ABC’s “World News” and 74 minutes on “NBC Nightly News.” (The average evening newscast is 22 minutes long.)

CBS News no longer stations a single full-time correspondent in Iraq, where some 150,000 United States troops are deployed.

”

- Reporters Say Networks Put Wars on Back Burner - NYTimes.com

You mostly get what you pay for.

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 20:55:36 -0400

My mom came to visit this weekend, and she decided to take the $10 MegaBus back to Boston. Her description:

the scene on 31st sgtreet was TOTAL CHAOS. people lined up on the sidewalk for different destinations. we left about half an hour late, but smooth sailing the rest of the way and i sat up front with no one next to me. the bus driver had NEVER driven to boston before, so i had to help him out. oy vey. but ten dollars is ten dollars.

Just shoot yourself before things get any bleaker.

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 20:53:21 -0400

Just shoot yourself before things get any bleaker.:

(via marklisanti)

That was pretty much my reaction when I saw this story. I couldn’t even finish it. Talk about the pit of despair.

That thing that happens

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 19:27:18 -0400

Last night I was introduced to a friend of a friend—my friend had gone to high school with this guy he ran into at a bar, and they were having a conversation at the next table that I wasn’t really paying attention to—and I had that thing happen where you very quickly realize that this person is someone with whom you have corresponded, civilly but somewhat hostilely, via email, about things you wrote at your previous place of employment that this person (the friend of a friend) took strong offense to, and you are left with no choice but to have a civil though somewhat awkward (although I would not say hostile) conversation with this person, whom you have a feeling you will be running into quite a bit in the future and have concluded that it probably behooves you to be friendly, if always just a bit on your guard. You know what I mean.

"The Love Guru” placed fourth at the weekend box office in a serious embarrassment for Mr. Myers, who..."

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 17:50:55 -0400

““The Love Guru” placed fourth at the weekend box office in a serious embarrassment for Mr. Myers, who had spent years perfecting his new screen character, a love counselor named Pitka, only to be rejected by the critics and audience alike.”

- ‘Get Smart’ Beats ‘Guru’ at the Weekend Box Office - NYTimes.com
“The Love Guru” looks positively awful.

The Unseen Movement - The New York Times Great slide show of...

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 09:43:44 -0400

The Unseen Movement - The New York Times

Great slide show of photographs from the Civil Rights movement on NYTimes.com. Those are white protesters in the background.

Reconsiderations

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 09:27:00 -0400

Sam and I went deep into Park Slope last night, and the most annoying person of the entire evening was the guy behind us on the bus from Fort Greene. He called at least five people in quick succession (including one who sounded like a girlfriend) and left voicemails trying to get them to come to the Medeski, Martin & Wood concert in Prospect Park. With each message his his assurances that it would be a GREAT CONCERT and only THREE DOLLARS A HEAD and IF YOU MAKE IT, JUST CALL ME AND WE’LL FIND EACH OTHER IN THE CROWD! got just a little more desperate.

However, in a close second for most annoying person of the entire evening was the guy sitting next to us at Bar Toto, where we grabbed a quick dinner. He seemed to be from Memphis and he was the kind of guy who has opinions about EVERYTHING and seems to enjoy nothing else than to hear himself talk about said opinions. I wanted to throttle him.

Lemurs at the Bronx Zoo[via NYT]

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:24:02 -0400

Lemurs at the Bronx Zoo

[via NYT]

Doree Is Turtle

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:00:18 -0400

alexbalk:

Microfame is an ecosystem, a collection of fans who contribute and invest themselves in the brand called you. The best current example of this esprit de corps in action is the diaspora of former Gawker editors who have picked up microblogging. Alex, Doree, Choire, Jess, Elizabeth, Emily, and Josh each have their own sites, but their cross-references and incestuous linking have created a blogger’s version of Entourage. The posse—or as media theoreticians call it, the network—creates influence that grows exponentially with its size. If fame is an investment, the members of your posse are the stockbrokers keeping your wealth properly distributed.
I had no idea we were so busy building our brand, but if that is in fact the case it’s pretty clear that we’re all incredibly poor investments.

It’s true. My day job consists of smoking pot and discovering heretofore unknown rappers, as well as chaffeuring Emily and Choire around in a Denali while Balk sulks at home, cooking us omelettes.

Kelly Cutrone, revealed

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 10:28:35 -0400

My co-worker Meredith Bryan wrote an absolutely brilliant profile of Kelly Cutrone, the owner of fashion PR/production company People’s Revolution and guest “star” on The Hills, where she was featured as Whitney’s boss. She is given to saying: “I was like, ‘Paul, if I get Whitney to marry Demian, will you come and direct an episode of The Hills?’ That would be the ultimate Warhol thing, right? To get fucking Paul to do an episode of The Hills would be amaaaaazing!”

Just read it.

(via alexbalk)

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 10:00:00 -0400

(via alexbalk)