More Than A Feeling...

It's an out and out manic urge to stop working and let the freakin' weekend begin! (if I was a radio DJ that would be my Friday afternoon song and accompanying shout out)

Anyway here are a few days worth of Talking Point compliments of the mysterious and talented LM who has become a sort of puppet master on my blog. She writes, I post. Ah the lazy days of summer...

• Drinking with colleagues: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/02/jobs/02career.html?_r=1&8dpc
• The 90’s, revisited: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/06/us/politics/06gore.html?hp
• A kind of long, confusing and fascinating article on mortality statistics: http://gravityandlevity.wordpress.com/2009/07/08/your-body-wasnt-built-to-last-a-lesson-from-human-mortality-rates/
• There is like, nothing good in gossip today, so I’ll just say – “how is this woman 25?” http://www.nypost.com/seven/08062009/gossip/pagesix/is_turs_rise_olbermanns_doing__183162.htm
• Tenement News: http://gothamist.com/2009/08/06/chinatown_building_deemed_unsafe_se.php
• Should we get stock in this? http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-ipo6-2009aug06,0,770184.story
• Blind Item: http://blindgossip.com/index.php/2009/08/06/her-partner-has-headed-for-the-exit-sign/
• Woo woo! Economy turning around, maybe?: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/08/business/economy/08jobs.html?_r=1&hp
• Technological attack: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8189162.stm
• OMG – the end of She’s Having a Baby, intense and weepy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MZWrEfB_VM&feature=player_embedded
• Laptop backlash: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MZWrEfB_VM&feature=player_embedded
• Yay! Make your own Gatorade: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/04/phys-ed-are-sports-drinks-actually-good-for-kids/?ref=magazine
• The drugstore we love to hate may die: http://gothamist.com/2009/08/07/duane_reade_at_deaths_door.php
• Tribeca underwater. Stay away: http://gothamist.com/2009/08/07/tribeca_water_main_break_causes_flo.php
• Middlesex: http://bossip.com/139759/chicks-with-dcks-is-lady-gaga-packing/
• The swarthy Constantine gets beat up: http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2009/08/07/2009-08-07_devotion_to_paula_abdul_floors_constantine_maroulis.html
• Johnny’s getting better!: http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2009/08/06/2009-08-06_patrick_swayzes_fuller_face_and_head_of_hair_show_improvements_in_his_battle_aga.html
• Blind item of easiness: http://www.crazydaysandnights.net/2009/08/ben-widdicombe-blind-item_06.html

This is probably the saddest and sweetest Talking Point of the day:

• John Hughes’ penpal: http://wellknowwhenwegetthere.blogspot.com/2009/08/sincerely-john-hughes.html

A very sad passing indeed...

Anyway I hope you all have a great weekend full of debauchery that will leave your thoughts super distracted come Monday morning. Oh...and here is the pic of the day:


I never said it was supposed to make sense...xo