"TV On The Radio played their first of three nights in a row at the Brooklyn Masonic Temple in NYC last night (10/14). The Dirtbombs opened the show." (BrooklynVegan)
"In tonight’s debate the two candidates will be seated next to each other at a table. The format is intended to promote conversation rather than the regurgitation of stump speeches. It sometimes encourages candidates to be more civil toward one another, but it can also have the opposite effect. In previous debates when Mr. McCain has been seated next to his opponent — earlier this year against Mitt Romney and in 2000 against George W. Bush — he evidently saw no reason to restrain himself. Mr. McCain has already vowed to 'whip' Mr. Obama’s 'you-know-what' tonight. Of course, he has signaled such a get-tough approach before, only to flag." (NYTimes)
"D.L. Hughley on the phone right now: "No matter how this election goes, half the country's going to be devastated, no matter what.'" (Brian Stelter/ Twitter)
"Kind of scared to watch Chocolate News. (Comedy Central) rejected it every year for the past five years." (Lindsayism/Twitter)
"Stunning rock royalty Theodora Richards -– daughter of Keith and Patti Hansen, PAPER 2007 Beautiful Person, frequent cameo-star of Paul Johnson-Calderon's PAPERMAG column, talented painter and artist, and IMG model –- graces a sweeping ten-page editorial in the November 'Britain Rocks!' issue of Vogue China fittingly featuring coverstar Agyness Deyn." (Papermag)
"I seem to have picked an apt title for my Daily Beast column, or blog, or whatever it’s called: 'What Fresh Hell.' My last posting (if that’s what it’s called) in which I endorsed Obama, has brought about a very heaping helping of fresh hell. In fact, I think it could accurately be called a tsunami. The mail (as we used to call it in pre-cyber times) at the Beast has been running I’d say at about 7-to-1 in favor. This would seem to indicate that you (the Beast reader) are largely pro-Obama. As for the mail flooding into National Review Online—that’s been running about, oh, 700-to-1 against." (Christopher Buckley/TheDailyBeast)
"It’s not as though no one saw it coming. Here’s the economist Michael Hudson, writing in the May 2006 issue of Harper’s Magazine: 'The reality is that, although home ownership may be a wise choice for many people, this particular real-estate bubble has been carefully engineered to lure home buyers into circumstances detrimental to their own best interests…. The bubble will burst, and when it does, the people who thought they would be living the easy life of a landlord will soon find that what they really signed up for was the hard servitude of debt serfdom.' Other commentators, including Warren Buffet, said similar things about the derivatives market. He was prescient, but hardly anybody listened." (Harper's)
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