The Confluence (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
... House.” I heard the whole painful story on NPR’s “Only a Game” this morning in an interview with Elizabeth Williamson. She’s the author of a story that appeared in the Wall Street Journal on November 25, Quietly, the President Finds That Golf Is No Slam Dunk. The interview on the NPR sports program featured much laughter from Williamson and host/interviewer Bill Littlefield....
Modern Americans (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
... month. David’s posted a helpful run-down of the projects he read from, in collaboration with Elizabeth Williamson and with spontaneous audience assistance from Allison Cobb. Standing in the back, I didn’t quite catch what Allison was doing with the tape recorded message David handed her, along with a pad and paper, or why David moved through the audience taking pictures...
Experiments In Text :The Literature That Organisms... (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
... the bracketed lyrics that circle round, sometimes overlay, the central block of prose. This time Elizabeth Williamson performed both dominant voices, read straight thru, & I indicated a break in the prose (where the bracketed lyric begins) by taking a photo of some detail in the room. I got a pretty good record of what Donald et al. keep in their home, what books are on their...
NO QUARTER (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
POTUS Links. The report by the excellent and wry Elizabeth Williamson, WSJ, is a puzzle, because it is difficult to say if the newsroom in Washington knows what the answer is to the question posed: Why does POTUS choose to go golfing almost compulsively (every Sunday instead of church, every free weekend, sometimes more)? Several [...]
GeoffShackelford.com (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
The WSJ's Elizabeth Williamson tries to get the lowdown on Obama's love of golf over basketball, but doesn't resolve the matter. She does, however, share this about the security situation in case you were thinking of lacing a range ball with a bomb, think again. (Thanks reader Paul for the link.)
Experiments In Text :The Literature That Organisms... (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Thanks to Thom Donovan, David Buuck, and Arun Chandra, Elizabeth Williamson and Kate Arvin, this week has been a re up (for me) of the question of what a poetics of the television interview show genre/form might look like. In a recent conversation about potential poetics theater projects, Thom mentioned to David and I that he was planning on teaching Glenn Beck in his class: from Beck's...
EconomicPolicyJournal.com (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Thanks to some great reporting at WSJ by Elizabeth Williamson and Paul Glader, now we know why General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt has been to the White House five times since President Obama has occupied the place. He wants GE to out do Goldman Sachs and Carlyle Group combined as the biggest pig at the trough of corporate handouts. David Rubenstein looks like an amateur compared to Immelt....
Flopping Aces (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
I know someone who skipped out on class to attend President Obama’s speech at MIT on Friday (she’s a fan). I suppose she remained unphased by his dazed teleprompter failure (Hat tip: Freedom Eden): Maybe TotUS grew confused- in HAL 9000 fashion- as to the purpose of the MIT trip: Elizabeth Williamson reports on President Barack Obama’s remarks [...]
Market Watch (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
... secretary for Financial Stability at a hearing held by Congressional Oversight Panel chief Elizabeth Warren. For Seniors, The Check Might Well Be In The MailThe Obama Administration is considering a payment of $250 to seniors to ease the burden of the recession. But WSJ's Elizabeth Williamson says some Democrats fear the plan will already swell a record deficit. "We are aware...
The Note (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
... security guard John Brek arrested for making threats against President Obama”: LINK NY Daily News’ Elizabeth Benjamin and Michael Saul: “President Obama rakes in serious cash during brief visit to New York City” LINK The Wall Street Journal’s Elizabeth Williamson and Henry J. Pulizzi: “Checks for Seniors Face Opposition” LINK The Washington Times' Jon Ward: “White House offensive...
