http://gangrey.com Prolonging the slow death of newspapers 2008-07-23T10:03:10Z http://gangrey.com/1747 This has nothing to do with writing (well, maybe). A guy in New York buys a vending machine off the Web, fills the capsules with ideas and plants them around the city. Fifty cents buys you a toy, an idea, and a map to the location for your idea. He aweofije... ben 2008-07-23T10:03:10Z http://gangrey.com/1746 Libby Copeland: Cindy McCain might yearn to be invisible sometimes, or at the very least, not surrounded by the Secret Service and photographers and gawking people. The scrutiny seems too much to bear. Something about that half-apologetic manner. "I weofije... ben 2008-07-22T13:16:14Z http://gangrey.com/1745 It would look like this: Twelve hours ago: Called wife on way home. Wondered if I should pick something up for dinner. Eleven hours, 59 and a half minutes ago: Listened to wife's cell ring and ring and ring. Eleven hours, 59 minutes ago: Didn't feel weofije... ben 2008-07-22T11:34:09Z http://gangrey.com/1744 James Meadow in Part I: She is half-naked and friendly. Probably clean, too, since she is merrily soaking in the Seal Pond - where, by the way, there are no real seals. Just two statues that spit water at each other and are lucky they are made of broweofije... ben 2008-07-22T11:31:42Z http://gangrey.com/1743 From Roy Peter Clark: Chip Scanlan and I have been asked to do a third edition of the Bedford book: America s Best Newspaper Writing. The first edition was a historical anthology of the best of the best from the ASNE Writing Awards competition and boweofije... ben 2008-07-21T13:36:17Z http://gangrey.com/1742 Lane DeGregory: LITHIA She slept late last Sunday. After her daughter and grandbaby had moved back to town, after her sister had flown in surprise! from Italy, her husband figured she was exhausted. "I didn't think anything of it," he later told the weofije... ben 2008-07-21T10:38:34Z http://gangrey.com/1741 Paul Kix: This is the machine. It is a gray square of hard plastic, looks like a garage door opener but is perhaps double the size of one. Inside this square is the circuit board and all that is evil and beneficent and contentious about the machine. weofije... ben 2008-07-21T09:20:58Z http://gangrey.com/1740 Irene Jay Liu: Joseph L. Bruno had wandered off again. Walking through the Albany International Airport, with a crush of staffers, media and well-wishers in tow, Bruno was supposed to be headed toward the observation deck that bears a bust that honorweofije... ben 2008-07-21T09:17:24Z http://gangrey.com/1739 John Barry: GULFPORT She looks young and petite, waiflike in T-shirt and shorts. The only clue to who she really is, or was, is a slight toughness in her voice, a commanding directness, a clear vibe that this is someone who could, under certain circuweofije... ben 2008-07-21T09:10:17Z http://gangrey.com/1738 AP: The many and deepening cuts at newspapers across the country are starting to take a toll on their content, according to a study being released Monday. The challenge newspapers must meet immediately is to find more revenue on the Internet, accordiweofije... ben 2008-07-21T09:08:10Z http://gangrey.com/1737 So look at this. Derek Zumsteg, who writes for a baseball site called Ussmariner.com, recently became the first blogger to have his work included the annual Best American Sportswriting book. The story, a forensic analysis of Bugs Bunny's baseball greweofije... Tom Lake 2008-07-20T22:51:59Z http://gangrey.com/1736 Wright Thompson: LDORET, Kenya -- He slips into the backseat of a parked taxi and hides behind its darkly tinted windows. What he is about to say could get him killed. Jose Cendon/AFP/Getty ImagesTwo of Lucas Sang's sons walk ahead of their father's weofije... ben 2008-07-17T10:58:09Z http://gangrey.com/1735 DeNeen Brown: A woman sits alone on a gray chair in a psychiatric ward in a Brooklyn hospital. When we first see her, we do not know how long she has been sitting there. Suddenly, the woman collapses on her face onto the dirty floor. We watch throughweofije... ben 2008-07-16T11:53:49Z http://gangrey.com/1734 Our friend Tim Logan is all over the In-Bev takeover. Here, here, here and here. ben 2008-07-16T09:20:26Z http://gangrey.com/1733 Colleen Jenkins and Tom French: TAMPA In front of the jury, the case played like a cross between Peyton Place and Bleak House. There were whispers of extramarital affairs, accusations of straight-faced betrayal, stories of files secretly copied and cweofije... ben 2008-07-15T10:26:59Z http://gangrey.com/1732 Richard Lake: Live Action Sex! Delivered Right to You! Available Any Time! At the Library! Huh? Turns out, anyone with a library card, a shuddering lack of shame and an IQ just high enough to click a mouse can plop his butt down at one of the local lweofije... ben 2008-07-14T08:43:55Z http://gangrey.com/1731 The Washington Post's Sylvia Moreno, Sari Horwitz and Scott Higham: It was above 80 degrees, the start of another steamy summer day in Washington. At 8:58 on the morning of July 25, 2001, three D.C. police sergeants gathered 28 cadets along Glover Roweofije... ben 2008-07-14T08:25:18Z http://gangrey.com/1730 Dan Barry: Lately, in the maintenance garage at the Danbury rest stop just off Interstate 84, the topic of conversation can shift suddenly from grass-cutting and litter pickup to death. What happens afterward? Where do we go? When I die, will you remweofije... ben 2008-07-14T08:11:57Z http://gangrey.com/1729 Leonora LaPeter Anton: It's fight night at the A La Carte Event Pavilion and Jenna Shiver is pulling a satin skirt on over her shorts. On the other side of the dressing room curtain, her opponent nicknamed the Predator is throwing punches into her coweofije... ben 2008-07-14T08:06:10Z