11 posts tagged “ny times”
It's Sunday - when we are home, that means, reading the NYTimes, a tasty egg breakfast, and Adam watching Meet the Press (which he is doing now) while I flee to another room in the house....
In the paper today was an article about this blooger who just got a book deal. I got a link to this blogged forwarded to me a few weeks ago and his page is pretty amusing.
Happy Sunday!
Elliot Spitzer played a large role in making Wall Street folks lives hell..... When he was Attorney General of NY, he launched a very public attack on investment banks. (Trying not to get into too many details). As a result, we have an insane amout of compliance obstacles to overcome - many of them make it more difficult for us to do our jobs without really protecting the individual investors in a meaningful way. (I'll stop there - there are BOOKS written on this topic).
Turns out that Governor Spitzer isn't getting the last laugh. What kind of freakin' moron getting caught up in a prostitution ring!!!! I hope he has to resign!
I love the online magazine, Slate. It has a great article on Spitzer today, comparing similarities between how he prosecuted Wall Street and his prostitution troubles. Also - I love the word SCHADENFREUDE and I think this a phenomenal example of it.
Here's another article on the topic - I think this one is phenomenally well written. Have I mentioned before that I enjoy reading the NY Times?
Interesting Op-Ed in the NYTimes today by Gloria Steinem. I've found it interesting reading today - everyone hypothesizing Hillary's NH win over Obama.
This is one of her most interesting excerpts:
So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one? The reasons are as pervasive as the air we breathe: because sexism is still confused with nature as racism once was; because anything that affects males is seen as more serious than anything that affects “only” the female half of the human race; because children are still raised mostly by women (to put it mildly) so men especially tend to feel they are regressing to childhood when dealing with a powerful woman; because racism stereotyped black men as more “masculine” for so long that some white men find their presence to be masculinity-affirming (as long as there aren’t too many of them); and because there is still no “right” way to be a woman in public power without being considered a you-know-what.
I am an avid NY Times reader and enjoy starting my morning each day with some perusing. The following is part of a movie review for Good Luck Chuck, that was too funny not to share.... doesn't look like this movie is even worth Netflix-ing.
But the main audience for this dim little sex comedy has no particular interest in seeing Ms. Alba act. They want to see her in her underwear and also to confront one of the central cultural questions of our time: will she take her top off?
No spoilers here! In the meantime plenty of less famous women do take their tops off, which will make “Good Luck Chuck” a must-see for young men with a subscription to Maxim but no access to the Internet. The intended viewership seems to consist of guys who fantasize about sleeping with Ms. Alba, which may represent a reasonably large share of the population.
I get a NYTimes email link each day and at the bottom it has "On This Day" which cites something newsworthy that had happened on this date. Here's today's:
On Sept. 20, 1973, Billie Jean King defeated Bobby Riggs in straight sets 6-4, 6-3, 6-3 in a $100,000 winner-take-all tennis match.
Last night, Henin defeated Serena in the Quarterfinals. This is the third time that these two have met in a Quarterfinal this year, and Henin has won each time.... Henin was serving horribly and Adam and I resorted to yelling at the television after her numerous double faults (7 in the match) and inability to get a first serve in - she was getting around 50% of her first serves in - pathetic for the #1 Ranked woman in the world!!! While extremely powerful, Serena wasn't moving very well - not that she has ever been very agile. When Henin ran her back and forth, she didn't stand a chance and her net game was awful. Her footwork was just pitifall, she wasn't moving well.
The Williams sisters aren't known for their sportsmanship, AND never give the other player credit for playing well when they get beaten, but I didn't notice Serena behaving inappropriate last night... So, I found it intriguing this morning when I saw photos of the match and all the captions commented about "an ungracious Serena". One of the photos was Henin/Williams shaking hands after the match and she seemed corgal - so that's a bit of a mystery. Guess I should read a summary of the game and see if I missed anything....
Henin goes on to play the winner of Venus Williams/Jankovic - Jankovic is seeded third, but I believe Venus is favored to win - they play tonight. Yesterday, I had been confident that Henin would be able to take the Title, but if her serve is as bad as it was last night, Venus is going to trounce all over her second serve.
Nadal got ousted last night (4th Round)... impressive that he made it this far, considering his knees have been bothering him. He had said last week that he would have pulled out of the draw by now if he had been any other tournament. I think its nice he has such a drive to win this major AND managed to get this far before being beaten. The match started late (the whole night was behind because Djokovic's match went so long and put the whole schedule over an hour behind) so I didn't watch too much. Nadal wasn't playing poorly, but it was clear that he wasn't moving like he normally did....
This afternoon, hopefully its still on when I get home from work so I can watch, Tommy Hass is playing Davydenko, a Russian that's seeded 4th. Should be interesting if Haas can continue to play as well as he did against Blake.
Big night tonight - FEDERER vs. RODDICK. I'm not a big Roddick fan. He's got a big serve, so he can dominate when he serves, but the rest of his game isn't very impressive. Once his opponent figures out how to block his serve, he looses his edge. I think Federer may get a whoppin' the first couple of games Roddick is serving, but shouldn't have a problem moving on to the Semis.
STAY TUNED!!!
AH HA!: I went looking online for what prompted the negative comment about Serena, and low and behold, she behaved in typical Williams behavior during the press conference. Here's a quote from the NY Times: From Williams’s perspective, she beat herself. “I think she made a lot of lucky shots and I made a lot of errors,” Williams, the eighth seed, said sourly during her postmatch news conference. Why is it so impossible for those two (Serena & Venus) to occasionally give their opponent some credit for winning???
Update: I just couldn't let this go and went searching for more on the press conference comments... interesting/testy exchange between Serena and the press.... details here
There's an article in the NY Times today about the draw. I must say that I'm a little bummed to see the Women's side so top-bracket-heavy. First, it makes the matches in the bottom half less interesting, but also, it gives Sharapova (and her insane schrieking) a better chance of getting farther in the tournament.
Should be interesting to see if Djovokoc (I think I just butchered that spelling) or Nadal can prevent Federer from his fourth straight US Open victory.
The fun starts Monday. Adam and I are going on Friday - so excited!!!! Fingers crossed that the weather is cooperative.
I found this amusing today in an article in the travel section of the NY Times.
The article discusses what tourists think of the NYC subway system. It took me three months of living up there, taking countless subways to see apartments I could possibly sublet (what a nightmare that was!) for me to finally figure out how most of the trains worked. And even then, I would still slip up getting on in the wrong direction or a local instead of an express. I imagine the subway is even more overwhelming and disgusting for tourists that are coming from abroad, since just about every industrial country besides the US has a well-run public transportation system in place.
But if you're only here for a few days, how to survive? Take taxis and tour buses? You can't really claim you've been here until you've swiped a MetroCard and received a “swipe card again at this turnstile” message and a courtesy jolt to the pelvis, or experienced the utter discombobulation of emerging back onto street level and having no idea which way is north or south or east or west.
There was an article in the NYTimes some time ago that discussed the topic of "office spouses" - more or less, this is a person that you are close to at work that you confide in, share office gossip with, and generally treat as your closest confident - of the opposite sex, of course.... I have one where I work, our friend S. About three months ago, S was relocated to the office next to me, so we pretty much hear everything that the other person does or says all day long. {its actually pretty funny, because we have AOL IM in the office and I will hear him typing sometimes -- after someone has stopped by to say something to one of us -- and I KNOW that he is typing is an IM to me}. ANYWAY....
Late in the day today, Adam called me and I warned him that I was grouchy --- since he would be stuck with me for the rest of the night. While I'm on the phone (I was lazy, so Adam was on speakerphone) S, hollers out that he has had to deal with me ALL DAY, and that is a longer amount of time than the "Shift" Adam will have tonight... pretty funny... then he made some comment about being a spouse "without the benefits" -- I thought this was hysterical, and dead-on accurate... (no way S would EVER be a threat). Funny though that our friend is"stuck" having to deal with me on bad days without reaping any of the rewards that come with marriage. time to find him a lady-friend - not that we haven't been trying!!!
Well, that's my random story of the day!!
I'm getting tired of posting only about the house hunting saga, so here is something complete different.....
Photo depictions of my two favorite ways to enjoy a Sunday morning:
Favorite #1: Unfortunately, there are only 4 Sundays a year where I can watch a Grand Slam Tennis Final. Check out this breakfast spread though! I am one lucky wife to have a hubby that enjoys cooking so much. We took this photo when we were watching the Australian Open in January.... next up, the French Open... I think.
Favorite #2: Reading the NY Times on the couch with Adam. This is a relatively new tradition we started since Adam received a Sunday subscription as a Xmas present. We normally do this from the time we get up until Meet the Press starts at 10:30am - I know, this just screams DORK, but hey, that's us. I normally continue reading the paper while Adam watches the show. I can only stomach politian's avoiding answering questions for so long, before I need to find something to do in another room.
