Gina Kolata on why lactic acid is good for you.
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Gina Kolata on why lactic acid is good for you. Okay, so my David Blaine interview for today wasn’t killed … just chopped into a two-sentence brief. Bleah, it wasn’t like I had the print exclusive … oh wait, I did. Anyway, no sour grapes, here’s the story I had written: By DEREK ROSE David Blaine admitted yesterday he botched the preparation for his […] Editors decided not to run this little story as people were losing interest. Oh well. By DEREK ROSE David Blaine checked himself out of the hospital against medical advice early yesterday, hours after being pulled semiconscious from his water-filled plastic sphere. […] My little scooplet from today: Bubble trouble Blaine chain stunt in doubt as he shows signs of wear BY DEREK ROSE DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER After seven days in a water-filled sphere, David Blaine may not be able to pull off chain stunt during prime time tonight. A crucial element of tonight’s grand finale of […] Great Boston Globe story about running at night: At an hour when lampposts carve shadows over empty streets, when geese outnumber people on the Esplanade, skunks troll through Brookline, and rats prowl around Beacon Hill, Tom Goulet is out sweating, his muscles burning, his mind far from shutting down. Which for most people, given the […] The Red Sox are off to an 11-5 start, the best record in the American League. But what are we going to do about Wily Mo Pena? His defense is killing us, and he’s only hitting .269 with one homer. I know he has “potential,” but how do we justify giving him the playing […] So my longtime readers may remember that a year ago this month, I had to write a story about bloggers dating. I blogged about said story here and here. It is time to offer congratulations to two of the men featured in said article … I will be able to say, I knew them when. […] So delicious … I really have nothing to add on this whole Page 6 shakedown scandal, but if you haven’t been reading the coverage in my paper, you should. (And if you’re reading this blog from New Zealand, as a few of you probably are — a staffer for “Page 6”, the gossip page […] So I think Ben Smith left his dirty laundry on the floor between our desks. Yuck! I left it on his chair to greet him when he comes in tomorrow. Also, fellow NYDN blogger Sam Borden thinks “Eye of the Tiger” is “the best song to have playing as you run on a treadmill.” […] Steven I. Weiss has an interesting post on how the media described last night’s violence in Crown Heights, versus the 1991 violence in the same area. “A routine traffic stop of a 75-year-old Hasidic driver in Brooklyn escalated into a protest last night by hundreds of Orthodox Jews,” the Times story read, “who surrounded a […] Okay, so I don’t know how many of y’all have been following the Washington Post’s “Red America” controversy. But a quick recap: Ben Domenech is this 24-year-old screechy editor of the blog “Red State” whose idea of dialogue was calling Coretta Scott King a “communist.” (As Facing South notes, this was the kind of line […] I am making myself a ferocious running mix for my MP3 player. We are talking 512 MB of fast-paced running tunes. Thank you to everyone that contributed to my last post on running music, esp. Uptown Girl (for introducing me to ATB) and my brother Evan (The White Stripes). I will post the full mix […] I am feeling grumpy. But here are two NYT stories for y’all. The first is on the gentrification of my neighborhood, Hell’s Kitchen. “Call it Hell’s Renovated Kitchen,” the article says. Then there’s a sobering article on the plight of black men in America. Things are getting worse, not better: Especially in the country’s inner […] Interesting NYT magazine article on “single mothers by choice” — working women who are choosing to use sperm donors to get pregnant. One woman, a 40-year-old graduate student in biology in the Midwest, told me shortly after her first insemination: “One of the things that was so powerful about deciding to have a baby on […] Okay, this is inside baseball for those of you outside the journalism business … and really basic for those of you in it. But after putting itself up for sale, Knight Ridder — the publisher of the Philly Inquirer, the Miami Herald and the San Jose Mercury News — has agreed to sell itself to […] I covered Bill Clinton’s speech at Pace University on Sunday. Or, at least, I was there — we elected not to run a story because he didn’t say anything newsworthy. Still, I thought some of what he had to say was interesting and thoughtful (in a non-political sense — this is not a political blog): […] Assorted thoughts: Did 14 miles in the park on Saturday. Did the double-loop in 1:40, 10 minutes faster than my time from two weeks ago. Running the loop today, I saw some elderly Chinese guy walking his cat on a leash near Central Park North. The grey cat looked awfully regal. I had a story […] I found this NYT article in their new free subway paper yesterday and thought it was interesting… [A]s single women have grown to be an indisputable force in the housing market, a compelling question about single men has arisen: why are single women twice as likely to be home buyers? A study published last month […] The Mofo pointed this one out to me: If you’re one of the lucky ones who opened your morning Bryan-College Station Eagle on Thursday and found a large penis staring back at you, well, congratulations. The shot was taken during a basketball game … it’s funnier if you read the Deadspin article and then the […] I don’t understand how the Village Voice’s acting editor-in-chief, Doug Simmons, can consider not firing Nick Sylvester, the reporter who admits fabricating details of his story on pick-up artists. Simmons says he never spoke with Steve Lookner, which I assume is the correct name of the “Steve Lucien” TV writer character quoted in the […] |
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