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10 February 2003

By The Morning News —
  • New York's currently: expecting snow
  • White House wants authorization to attack if Iraq doesn't cooperate fully with the U.N. by Friday.
  • NATO holds emergency meeting after France, Germany, and Belgium block military planning to send self-defense hardware to Turkey.
  • Philip Marlowe may have been a stylish drinker, but Raymond Chandler was just an annoying drunk.
  • Daniel Boulud (of Chez Daniel fame) has a small kitchen, with bottled water in the oven, and an iPod.
  • New York overrun by dogs at the Westminster show, the longest running sporting event in America after the Kentucky Derby.
  • John Kerry attacks Bush's destruction of environmental regulation.
  • Rent a country! Have 33,000 residents yodel about your brand! Liechtenstein now available for your company's annual meeting.
  • Secret Service foiled by God when the Handshake Man delivers a note to the President.
  • Bart Sibrel leads the conspiracy theorists against NASA over whether or not we went to the moon. (Related: Sibrel's website.)
  • The Week in Craig, your guide to the most fascinating accidental literary magazine on the web.
  • Hallmark's writers get no respect.
  • The original child abuse allegations against Michael Jackson, settled out of court for $15 million. (Related: Why my friend Michael is a good father.)
  • My name was a problem. I had no regular playmates, aside from my siblings and the occasional busload of orphans. But on the occasions when the ranch had any visitors my own age or slightly older, they would call me Pillow, or, if they were French children, Duvet. The story of Michael Jackson's son, Blanket.
  • The manager of The Walkmen has a blog.