Author: Alex Irvine
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Dear Alice Hoffman
I… Well, that is… Nevermind. Ron Hogan said it better than I could have. So did Beau Dure. You ought to be ashamed of yourself. Sincerely, A fellow writer
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1-800-AUTOPSY: Notes Toward a Michael Jackson Essay I’ll Never Write
This line from the morning’s main Michael Jackson story on CNN caught my attention: “Vidal Herrera, founder of 1-800-AUTOPSY…” In addition to being probably the best thing that happened to that CNN stringer all day, this sentence provoked in me a strange reaction, which was: Of course Jackson’s family got in touch with a place…
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Morning Media Menu Podcast
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/BTRPlayer.swf?file=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eblogtalkradio%2Ecom%2Fplaylist%2Easpx%3Fshow%5Fid%3D573609&autostart=true&bufferlength=5&volume=100&borderweight=1&bordercolor=#999999&backgroundcolor=#FFFFFF&dashboardcolor=#0098CB&textcolor=#FFFFFF&detailscolor=#FFFFFF&playlistcolor=#999999&playlisthovercolor=#333333&cornerradius=10&callback=http://www.blogtalkradio.com/FlashPlayerCallback.aspx?referrer_url=/show.aspxJust now on Mediabistro’s Morning Media Menu podcast, Galleycat‘s Jason Boog, FishbowlNY‘s Amanda Ernst, and I had a fun conversation. Topics included but were not limited to: the possible (now certain) effect of Michael Jackson’s death on a certain scene in Bruno; what kind of Michael Jackson Michael Jackson is going to be now that…
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Tunguska Mystery Solved?
Maybe so, according to this article about new work that fingers a small comet as the culprit. Another article from Cornell with a link to the original paper is here.