and to Manhattan
Audrey: Last night I went out to the meatpacking district with a guy friend who would undoubtedly like to be more than a friend. He spent $133 on dinner, and tipped $30. The reason I don't mind getting a lot of free dinners is that, in my opinion, in New York, if you are a not-unfortunate-looking young girl, no matter how bright you are, you'll always be a piece of ass first. Besides, I just tend to be attracted to older men, and to Manhattan.
- Anya Kamenetz, "Generation Debt - The New Economics of Being Young: SpaghettiOs, Mom's Credit Card, and Centipedes in the Basement," village voice June 8, 2004
posted June 08, 2004 in printyard beer
One of the more modest but curious trends in the billion-dollar U.S. beer market has been the sharp rise in sales of working-class lagers like Pabst Blue Ribbon, Schlitz, Hamm's, Piels and Old Style.
A recent New York Times Magazine story pegged the trend to young urbanites who are protesting the suburban chicness of microbrews and the marketing power of the three large U.S. breweries. That's especially the case with Pabst, which has become the Ralph Nader of canned beers—the anti-choice of young independents ...
The term "yard beer" came up as Murphy and O'Brien were refining their vision of the bar and its clientele ...
"I think they drink Pabst for a variety of reasons," Parr said. "Some drink it because it's cheap. Others say it's the beer their father or grandfather drank. And some drink it because it has an image of being noncorporate."
Then the joke is on them, in a way. These days Pabst isn't even a brewery; it's a company based in San Antonio that comprises teams of marketers, a few dozen managers and several executives. The brewery closed in the early 1990s.
- TIMOTHY FINN, "Blue-collar beers are booming," detroit free press june 8, 2004 (via the note)
posted June 08, 2004 in crap, printpainful periods and migraines
Talk soon turned to that other lodestar, celebrities. "We have a huge movie industry in India," said Payal Kohli, who edits the Cosmo edition there. "Any star we pick up from Bollywood just sells. But they're the fussiest people. To tell them we are shooting the bang-on cover when they know their profile is better—it's a nightmare." Felicetti said Italian magazines typically sell better when they put models on the cover. Cosmo Italy, she added, uses upbeat cover treatments to distinguish itself from its competitors, which tend to favor moody imagery. "In Italy, all the models look like they have painful periods and migraines."
- Jeff Bercovici, "Memo Pad: Planet Cosmo ... Fire, Dance With Me ... TV on the Radio ..." wwd June 8, 2004
posted June 08, 2004 in printstrange maintenance work
Italy's largest electric company pulled the plug on two left-wing radio stations the morning of U.S President George W. Bush's visit to Pope John Paul II at the Vatican.
The outage—described as "strange maintenance work" by Enel, Italy's 60 percent state-owned utility—forced Radio Cittą Aperta and Radio Onda Rossa off the air as they were preparing to broadcast extensive coverage of street protests against the president's visit.
"The stations lost electricity for four hours, all the morning, during several 'actions' of the civil disobedience movement," Francesco Diasio told MediaChannel by email. Diasio, managing director of Amisnet, a community radio agency supporting several Italian radio stations, was working with Radio Cittą Aperta (Open City Radio) and Radio Onda Rossa (Red Wave Radio), in concert with several other radio networks in Italy, to broadcast up-to-the-minute reports on the Rome protests.
A spokesman for Enel declined to comment on the Monte Cavo outage.
- Timothy Karr, "Plug Pulled on Rome Radio Stations Covering Bush Protests," MediaChannel.org june 4, 2004
posted June 08, 2004 in politics, printworries:
- that i need coffee in the morning to do anything
- that i need pot at night to relax and think about things