Our favourite bits of the web for today:
Q&A with McCain’s blogger. The Columbia Journalism Review has a candid interview with Michael Goldfarb, John McCain’s “deputy communications director-cum-media bodyguard” and official blogger.
It was brutal work, but it’s hard to say no to a presidential campaign. Plus it was something I was good at. I was a cudgel. I pissed off the media. They were furious about it. That was the effect the campaign was looking for.
Who do you think you are? Actress Patti LuPone cracks it on stage at an audience member taking flash photography. Nothing beats live theatre.
Move over, Hooters. Restaurants with skanky wait staff are booming in Texas, apparently. Nothing to pull you out of that recession depression like a night out at Twin Peaks or Bone Daddy’s House of Smoke.
Kurt Vonnegut motivational posters. This is how Crikey staff get inspired every day:
Why is Billy Joel SO awful? asks Slate:
Billy Joel, they can’t stand you because of your music; because of your stupid, smug attitude; because of the way you ripped off your betters to produce music that rarely reaches the level even of mediocrity. You could dress completely au courant and people would still loathe your lame lyrics.
How narco states work. “To get from their areas of origin to the towns and cities where consumers purchase them in little baggies, illicit drugs have likely passed through way stations called narco states. These are regions and countries where governmental action is directly influenced — either through corruption or violence — by drug traffickers, drug producers or the drug trade itself,” says How Stuff Works in this great explainer on the middle men of the drug trade.
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