Quote for the Day
This cracked me up:
"When a yacht is over 328 feet, it's so big that you lose the intimacy."
--Tork Buckley
Word.
For more on exactly how big one's yacht should be, see the source article in today's New York Times.
And for more on how laughably easy it would have been to bust class-passing, race-passing, trauma-passing Margaret Seltzer on her fictions, see "Fooled Again," by Clark Hoyt, who writes that if Jack Begg, research supervisor at the Times,
--Tork Buckley
Word.
For more on exactly how big one's yacht should be, see the source article in today's New York Times.
And for more on how laughably easy it would have been to bust class-passing, race-passing, trauma-passing Margaret Seltzer on her fictions, see "Fooled Again," by Clark Hoyt, who writes that if Jack Begg, research supervisor at the Times,
had . . . been asked to do five minutes of checking in readily available public records, or had reporters and editors done it themselves before the newspaper bit, The Times could have been spared the embarrassment of falling for yet another too-good-to-be-true memoir from a publishing industry unwilling to accept responsibility for separating fact from fiction.What do you think? Is the publishing industry the culpable party here?
Faye said:
The yacht quote reminds me of another quote I read in a newspaper recently, when summarizing an article about consumers reining in their spending due to the economic downturn. One shopper commented that she had indeed pulled back on spending; she normally has a pedicure and manicure weekly, but has tried to cut back to once every three weeks.
March 17, 2008 1:49 PM