30 September 2002

  • New York's currently: tired
  • Tension between Special Forces and the Army during Operation Mountain Sweep in Afghanistan.
  • The story you've been waiting for...The secrets of the Bonghitters, the High Times softball team that's 50-8-4 and regularly kicks every other magazine's ass.
  • Man climbs world's tallest tower in a wheelchair.
  • Some facts and stories about the Flatiron Building, 100-years old tomorrow.
  • 'I don't get drunk as much anymore because I don't have as much to get drunk about,' he admits. He explains, 'My wife actually got worried about my drinking so much regular milk, you know, so she got me into rice milk and now soy milk, which I greatly enjoy. A soy mocha's a fine thing.' Willie Nelson (via Gopnik) on sleeping at the Carlyle, making soy mochas, and singing about rainbows.
  • Land's End finds success in selling custom-made chinos on the Web.
  • 'Three more, two more. Come on, Hutus and Tutsis together. Shake it!' Aerobics in Rwanda.
  • The Monitor on how its reporters prepare for battle.
  • Boys strangle mother, sick of her whining about a Wendy's bacon cheeseburger.
  • New Yorker festival concludes; Martin Amis 'a better husband' when writing nonfiction.
  • Just realized: It's always raining on James Wood's party.
  • Animals in costume are cute, and funny!
  • we'll return with new stories next monday, after andrew's wedding