estratègia de basura

un problema Del MediaDailyNews: [Un] estudi … [ha revelat] que els espectadors [americans] han d’aguantar un increïble 52 minuts de basura promocional durant un bloc típic de tres hores de prime time en les quatre cadenes principals. Aquesta xifra és 8% més que en 2000 i 36% més que en 1991… La durada mitja dels…

gerry adams in syria

Slugger O’Toole quotes Mark Durkan on RTE’s Question and Answers: “Gerry Adams has been on more roads to Damascus than a Syrian bus driver.” For the best election analysis you’re likely to read anywere, check the current edition of Portadown News.

MTV

Should the lawyers of what sometimes used to be known as Music Television be talking to those of Motos TV (or Motor Bike Television or whatever), or is this simply a hobbyist wrecking his van?

semàfors

Als EUA es ven (p2) un aparell per a canviar alguns semàfors de vermell a verd.

stuffed camel

This is one of the many recipes for which I do not have the ingredients this evening, having been too lazy to go to the supermarket.

Queens: death of a bratwurst

Just a brief follow-up on the post dealing with the curse of the bratwurst/bratswurst, the frankfurt/frankfurter and the hamburger/hamburguesa/hembluguesa: the NYT today notes the increasing assimilation into the mainstream of Ridgewood’s German community. Says Elfriede Parthe, “Life is a journey, and you know what, nothing ever stays the same.” (In a separate contribution to this…