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]]> By: Michael Turmon http://marccooper.com/holiday-family-round-up/comment-page-1/#comment-578028 Michael Turmon Tue, 04 Sep 2007 21:44:13 +0000 http://marccooper.com/holiday-family-round-up/#comment-578028 My comment on Wasserman is still awaiting moderation... My comment on Wasserman is still awaiting moderation…

]]> By: richard locicero http://marccooper.com/holiday-family-round-up/comment-page-1/#comment-578018 richard locicero Tue, 04 Sep 2007 18:52:15 +0000 http://marccooper.com/holiday-family-round-up/#comment-578018 Well I'm sure that the NFL is the place to do your sports betting - if you want to go with the crowds. But I learned some time ago, from a friend, that the best way to make money at the sports books was on College Basketball. If you study it long and hard you'll beat the handicappers as there is usually at least one game where the spread is out of line. Kinda like arbitrage on Wall Street and probably susceptable to automation. So where's Ed Thorp when you need him? Well I’m sure that the NFL is the place to do your sports betting – if you want to go with the crowds. But I learned some time ago, from a friend, that the best way to make money at the sports books was on College Basketball. If you study it long and hard you’ll beat the handicappers as there is usually at least one game where the spread is out of line. Kinda like arbitrage on Wall Street and probably susceptable to automation. So where’s Ed Thorp when you need him?

]]> By: reg http://marccooper.com/holiday-family-round-up/comment-page-1/#comment-578002 reg Tue, 04 Sep 2007 14:11:08 +0000 http://marccooper.com/holiday-family-round-up/#comment-578002 Marc - I thought the LA Times review was terrific for a young director and company. Major daily critics are the "big leagues". I just thought lifting a few lines from it might make you laugh as a silly poke at you and your nemesis Hugo. As I've expressed before, your daughter's accomplishment with her play would be most impressive even if it wasn't one of many. Marc – I thought the LA Times review was terrific for a young director and company. Major daily critics are the “big leagues”. I just thought lifting a few lines from it might make you laugh as a silly poke at you and your nemesis Hugo. As I’ve expressed before, your daughter’s accomplishment with her play would be most impressive even if it wasn’t one of many.

]]> By: Woody http://marccooper.com/holiday-family-round-up/comment-page-1/#comment-577995 Woody Tue, 04 Sep 2007 12:34:37 +0000 http://marccooper.com/holiday-family-round-up/#comment-577995 I'm sorry, Marc. I didn't mean to slight your daughter, and I'm impressed by how much she does and the variety of things that she can do. I misinterpreted the subject of the post and believed that it was a more casual and open topic. Congratulations, Natasha. I’m sorry, Marc. I didn’t mean to slight your daughter, and I’m impressed by how much she does and the variety of things that she can do. I misinterpreted the subject of the post and believed that it was a more casual and open topic. Congratulations, Natasha.

]]> By: Marc Cooper http://marccooper.com/holiday-family-round-up/comment-page-1/#comment-577982 Marc Cooper Tue, 04 Sep 2007 07:08:29 +0000 http://marccooper.com/holiday-family-round-up/#comment-577982 This is a wonderful set of comments to have appended to a thread about my daughter's play. A real paen to the sensibilities of the Web. This is a wonderful set of comments to have appended to a thread about my daughter’s play. A real paen to the sensibilities of the Web.

]]> By: Michael Turmon http://marccooper.com/holiday-family-round-up/comment-page-1/#comment-577981 Michael Turmon Tue, 04 Sep 2007 05:58:34 +0000 http://marccooper.com/holiday-family-round-up/#comment-577981 Add a trailing lower-case L to Marc's link to get all umpteen pages of the article on one page. About the article. Obviously a good guy to comment on the book biz and its relations to reviewing. But the article is overstepping these bounds and confusing lots of issues. One of its questions is, what happened to serious book reviews? If you're serious about US book reviews, you probably read NYRB. Do we need every metropolitan paper putting out reviews as esoteric as in NYRB? No. So those 5000, or 500, or 100,000, or 1.4 million (we get various numbers thru-out the piece) people who really dig reviews know where to go for their fix. No surprise, really. It's the same reason there are specialist journals for other esoteric interests like, say, foreign affairs or electronics. Critical topics to our society -- but not everyone has to be interested in them. While we're on the topic of "reviews that stand the test of time". NYRB is sadly obtuse about contemporary culture. Their idea of contemporary music coverage is Tin Pan alley or Broadway composers. Maybe Brian Wilson or Bob Dylan if they're really going out on a limb. But for all the talk about making tough decisions, what's actually tough, and what actually adds value, is curating the here-and-now and institutions like NYRB avoid it. Why are metropolitan book reviews collapsing? Same reason as newspapers are collapsing. Technology to deliver news other than by dead trees did not exist until recently. Now that it's there, ad dollars are going elsewhere. The existence of the big LAT book review section was really not a critical part of the paper -- kind of a vanity thing -- and so it goes away first. I think a much more interesting question than disappearance of book reviews is evaporating local coverage, in particular journalistic scrutiny of local politics. Lots of second-tier cities (eg, St. Louis) have less and less professional scrutiny of their politics. The new media can address this, but it will take time to figure out how it can work. Truthdig has lots of interesting long-form articles and I wish them the best of luck. Add a trailing lower-case L to Marc’s link to get all umpteen pages of the article on one page.

About the article. Obviously a good guy to comment on the book biz and its relations to reviewing. But the article is overstepping these bounds and confusing lots of issues.

One of its questions is, what happened to serious book reviews? If you’re serious about US book reviews, you probably read NYRB. Do we need every metropolitan paper putting out reviews as esoteric as in NYRB? No. So those 5000, or 500, or 100,000, or 1.4 million (we get various numbers thru-out the piece) people who really dig reviews know where to go for their fix. No surprise, really. It’s the same reason there are specialist journals for other esoteric interests like, say, foreign affairs or electronics. Critical topics to our society — but not everyone has to be interested in them.

While we’re on the topic of “reviews that stand the test of time”. NYRB is sadly obtuse about contemporary culture. Their idea of contemporary music coverage is Tin Pan alley or Broadway composers. Maybe Brian Wilson or Bob Dylan if they’re really going out on a limb. But for all the talk about making tough decisions, what’s actually tough, and what actually adds value, is curating the here-and-now and institutions like NYRB avoid it.

Why are metropolitan book reviews collapsing? Same reason as newspapers are collapsing. Technology to deliver news other than by dead trees did not exist until recently. Now that it’s there, ad dollars are going elsewhere. The existence of the big LAT book review section was really not a critical part of the paper — kind of a vanity thing — and so it goes away first.

I think a much more interesting question than disappearance of book reviews is evaporating local coverage, in particular journalistic scrutiny of local politics. Lots of second-tier cities (eg, St. Louis) have less and less professional scrutiny of their politics. The new media can address this, but it will take time to figure out how it can work.

Truthdig has lots of interesting long-form articles and I wish them the best of luck.

]]> By: sarcastic saib http://marccooper.com/holiday-family-round-up/comment-page-1/#comment-577977 sarcastic saib Tue, 04 Sep 2007 04:34:23 +0000 http://marccooper.com/holiday-family-round-up/#comment-577977 All this talk about grills and buns reminds me of Carl's Junior newest commercial, "Flat Buns" http://youtube.com/watch?v=RNlakElmwFs But I still like the Jack in the Box "Angus meat" commercial better. http://youtube.com/watch?v=gIKizLGVtvA All this talk about grills and buns reminds me of Carl’s Junior newest commercial, “Flat Buns”

http://youtube.com/watch?v=RNlakElmwFs

But I still like the Jack in the Box “Angus meat” commercial better.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=gIKizLGVtvA

]]> By: reg http://marccooper.com/holiday-family-round-up/comment-page-1/#comment-577976 reg Tue, 04 Sep 2007 04:32:22 +0000 http://marccooper.com/holiday-family-round-up/#comment-577976 Woody's "Pick a Number" game shows a degree of self-awareness that's unusual... Woody’s “Pick a Number” game shows a degree of self-awareness that’s unusual…

]]> By: Woody http://marccooper.com/holiday-family-round-up/comment-page-1/#comment-577969 Woody Mon, 03 Sep 2007 22:06:10 +0000 http://marccooper.com/holiday-family-round-up/#comment-577969 qdpsteve, I'll play a game of chance with reg that I learned on National Lampoon's "Las Vegas Vacation." It's called "Pick a Number." I'm thinking of a number. Now guess it. bunkerbuster, the grill is ready. If you're coming (not that way), then get here. qdpsteve, I’ll play a game of chance with reg that I learned on National Lampoon’s “Las Vegas Vacation.” It’s called “Pick a Number.” I’m thinking of a number. Now guess it.

bunkerbuster, the grill is ready. If you’re coming (not that way), then get here.

]]> By: Sandy http://marccooper.com/holiday-family-round-up/comment-page-1/#comment-577968 Sandy Mon, 03 Sep 2007 21:57:04 +0000 http://marccooper.com/holiday-family-round-up/#comment-577968 Mr. Cooper. You are entirely too grandiose. Chill. Mr. Cooper. You are entirely too grandiose. Chill.

]]> By: bunkerbuster http://marccooper.com/holiday-family-round-up/comment-page-1/#comment-577967 bunkerbuster Mon, 03 Sep 2007 21:46:11 +0000 http://marccooper.com/holiday-family-round-up/#comment-577967 ``Instead of serving you weenies, we’ll just let you eat each other.'' So Woody likes to watch. Is there a bathroom hand signal for that? “Instead of serving you weenies, we’ll just let you eat each other.”

So Woody likes to watch. Is there a bathroom hand signal for that?

]]> By: qdpsteve http://marccooper.com/holiday-family-round-up/comment-page-1/#comment-577963 qdpsteve Mon, 03 Sep 2007 19:13:03 +0000 http://marccooper.com/holiday-family-round-up/#comment-577963 <i>Bring your own bread.</i> "Compassionate conservatism" in a nutshell. Reg and Woody, we've just <b>GOT</b> to set up a heads-up no-limit hold'em poker tournament between you two. :-) Marc, you can deal the cards. Bring your own bread.

“Compassionate conservatism” in a nutshell.

Reg and Woody, we’ve just GOT to set up a heads-up no-limit hold’em poker tournament between you two. :-) Marc, you can deal the cards.

]]> By: anonymous coward http://marccooper.com/holiday-family-round-up/comment-page-1/#comment-577961 anonymous coward Mon, 03 Sep 2007 17:42:34 +0000 http://marccooper.com/holiday-family-round-up/#comment-577961 Mr. Cooper, you're one of a kind. Your climacteric peak knows no end. :-) Mr. Cooper, you’re one of a kind. Your climacteric peak knows no end. :-)

]]> By: Woody http://marccooper.com/holiday-family-round-up/comment-page-1/#comment-577958 Woody Mon, 03 Sep 2007 16:41:06 +0000 http://marccooper.com/holiday-family-round-up/#comment-577958 Bring your own bread. Bring your own bread.

]]> By: reg http://marccooper.com/holiday-family-round-up/comment-page-1/#comment-577956 reg Mon, 03 Sep 2007 15:37:25 +0000 http://marccooper.com/holiday-family-round-up/#comment-577956 I'll leave it to someone else to make the joke about Woody sharing his buns... I've got way too much class for that ! I’ll leave it to someone else to make the joke about Woody sharing his buns…

I’ve got way too much class for that !

]]> By: Woody http://marccooper.com/holiday-family-round-up/comment-page-1/#comment-577954 Woody Mon, 03 Sep 2007 14:21:15 +0000 http://marccooper.com/holiday-family-round-up/#comment-577954 Yeah, bunkerbuster, but instead of serving you weenies, we'll just let you eat each other. Yeah, bunkerbuster, but instead of serving you weenies, we’ll just let you eat each other.

]]> By: bunkerbuster http://marccooper.com/holiday-family-round-up/comment-page-1/#comment-577942 bunkerbuster Mon, 03 Sep 2007 05:26:57 +0000 http://marccooper.com/holiday-family-round-up/#comment-577942 I'll be right over, Woody. Can I bring a gay friend? I’ll be right over, Woody. Can I bring a gay friend?

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