A Slight Summer Break

Hello All! It's been a crazy summer so far and I have been neglecting my blog and self imposed writing assignments. Bad me. But until summer is over and I can buckle down and put pen to paper I will be happily sharing a new little feature: Talking Points! This comes courtesy of LM and she emails it around to a few of us every morning. It's meant to get your mind flowing, get informed about stuff going on in the world around you (through hard journalism and fluff) and also stuff to read and pass the time when work is slow. Plus blind items can keep you guessing for hours! She is SO schmart!

I will be posting them daily...her comments are very amusing as well. She even does bullet points!! Today's blog will feature a few days worth of Talking Points. That should kill today and before you know it Wednesday will be here! And then there will be more Talking Points! And the excitement goes on!! And on!!

• Such sadness: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/28/nyregion/28crash.html?_r=1&hp
• “Bootyful?!” Come on Madonna. Lame. http://www.nypost.com/seven/07282009/gossip/pagesix/madge_love_notes_up_for_sale_181668.htm
• Coincidence or not? I say not. http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2009/07/28/2009-07-28_a_close_call_for_rihanna_and_chris_brown.html
• Do not text and drive! Very bad! http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/28/technology/28texting.html?hp
• More on that Buffalo plane crash that makes me afraid to fly to upstate NY: http://www.buffalonews.com/home/story/746617.html
• Pretty good blind item: http://www.crazydaysandnights.net/2009/07/todays-blind-items_27.html
• I would really, really hate to be Dr. Conrad Murray. Seriously, the dude KILLED Michael Jackson. Imagine if that was your destiny? That sh*t’s crazy: http://www.tmz.com/2009/07/28/michael-jackson-dr-conrad-murray-propofol-died-lapd-/

• I know everyone is sick of Jon Gosselin except me! http://www.nypost.com/seven/07272009/gossip/pagesix/jon_gosselin_living_large_181585.htm
• She is absurd, though I can’t wait to watch the MTV Documentary about her: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/bizarre/usa/2553066/Paris-Hilton-reckons-Michael-Jackson-stole-her-name.html
• Lightening strike in Marine Park . We should all be careful at the block party this weekend. http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2009/07/26/2009-07-26_cricket_player_struck_by_lightning.html
• No duh: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/26/business/26corner.html?em
• People living over the bookstore in Cobble Hill: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/26/realestate/26habi.html?hpw
• Blind item! http://blindgossip.com/index.php/2009/07/26/what-one-actress-has-to-do-for-one-oreo/ The boards are indicating that it’s Reese.

• Poor Mischa: http://www.nypost.com/seven/07232009/gossip/pagesix/mischa_who__180764.htm
• Major Jersey corruption: http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/07/court_brooklyn_dummy_post.html
• Race issues!: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/23/us/23race.html?hp
• Oh sweet Jesus – this cast of characters is ridic: http://www.usmagazine.com/news/jon-gosselin-vacations-with-new-girl-in-southampton-2009227
• Lesbian Blind Item: http://laineygossip.com/Two_girls_one_limo_blind_item.aspx?CatID=0&CelID=0 I vote Lindsay + Mischa
• No airconditioner? No problem? A lifestyle article: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/23/garden/23air.html