http://gangrey.com Prolonging the slow death of newspapers 2010-09-09T15:01:43Z http://gangrey.com/2583 Todd C. Frankel: SAUGET • Charlie Lisk walked out onto the field, pushing aside the long years and longer odds, content to chase his dream through another humid day. Sweat stained his gray training shirt. Sunglasses and a Gateway Grizzlies ball cap sweofije... ben 2010-09-09T15:01:43Z http://gangrey.com/2582 John Barry and John Pendygraft: GAINESVILLE Pastor Terry Jones stayed holed up in his Dove World Outreach Center most of Tuesday. His center is a large prefab warehouse on a treeless field in a rural neighborhood. It has a large neon cross over the eweofije... ben 2010-09-08T08:32:07Z http://gangrey.com/2581 Brady Dennis: The few drivers on this dark, lonely stretch of the Suncoast Parkway in Pasco County pull up to the toll booth, hand their dollars to Lloyd Blair and then speed away. None of them knows why the old man sits here, night after night, workweofije... ben 2010-09-07T10:08:18Z http://gangrey.com/2580 Dan Zak: It gleams like a giant silver bullet lodged in the former site of a used-car lot, between a dumpy little liquor store and a rubbly, vacant property. It's a diner, that American symbol of both thriftiness and plenty, community and loneliness,weofije... ben 2010-09-02T14:22:29Z http://gangrey.com/2579 Bob Edwards with Gene Weingarten. ben 2010-09-02T07:27:54Z http://gangrey.com/2578 John McPhee (thanks, Richard): I always say to my classes that it s analogous to cooking a dinner. You go to the store and you buy a lot of things. You bring them home and you put them on the kitchen counter, and that s what you re going to make yourweofije... ben 2010-09-01T14:36:47Z http://gangrey.com/2577 From that Time story on Franzen and his latest: Franzen is very conscious that people are freer than ever that word again to spend their time and attention being entertained by things that aren't books. That awareness has changed the way he writes. Aweofije... Kruse 2010-09-01T09:05:59Z http://gangrey.com/2576 Ben and Edmund spoke at a company forum yesterday about the work that won a Casey Medal and a Dart Award and was a Pulitzer finalist. Kruse 2010-09-01T09:00:07Z http://gangrey.com/2575 Anthony Shadid: BAGHDAD In a pastel-colored room at the Baghdad morgue known simply as the Missing, where faces of the thousands of unidentified dead of this war are projected onto four screens, Hamid Jassem came on a Sunday searching for answers. Inweofije... ben 2010-09-01T08:44:08Z http://gangrey.com/2574 Size does matter: When bathed in his own afterglow, Glenn Beck becomes as soft and gentle as Mister Rogers. In cadence and content, his Washington rally debriefing Monday on Fox News's "The Glenn Beck Program" was soothing television, with a slideshoweofije... ben 2010-09-01T08:42:04Z http://gangrey.com/2573 Michael Graff (thanks, Elizabeth): Before he started working in genetic sequencing, Randy Crowell dropped out of high school. He went down to the mill in Kannapolis, 16 years old, and got a job opening bales of cotton. He made a couple of bucks an howeofije... ben 2010-09-01T08:16:19Z http://gangrey.com/2572 Sorry for the gangrissues yesterday. Back now and rolling. Here's Thomas Curwen (thanks, Mark): If Elizabeth Uyehara were alive, she would be pleased. Everything was working out as she had hoped. The terrible banality of her illness had ended, and shweofije... ben 2010-09-01T08:11:56Z http://gangrey.com/2571 Let's post the best of the best. This one is worth reading again. Dan Barry: NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 7 - In the downtown business district here, on a dry stretch of Union Street, past the Omni Bank automated teller machine, across from a parking garage ofweofije... ben 2010-08-30T08:53:28Z http://gangrey.com/2570 Blake Hall (thanks, Hank): I met Roy in early 2007. I was the leader of a reconnaissance platoon of scouts and snipers in Iraq and was just back from a two-week leave in the United States. Roy was our new interpreter. That night, my platoon was sent weofije... ben 2010-08-30T08:16:18Z http://gangrey.com/2569 TLake in SI: The New York Yankees' top prekindergarten prospect lives in Jersey City and plays baseball with his three brothers in the dusty courtyard behind their apartment. They made me umpire. You're the empire, they said. I was a bad empire, studweofije... Kruse 2010-08-27T10:41:22Z http://gangrey.com/2568 That picture! I haven't had a Schlitz tall boy since the 6th grade. Here's Dan Zack: The march of Western civilization and the prosperity of the United States have partly hinged on the quiet little object behind those boxes of pricey whole-grain rotiweofije... ben 2010-08-27T09:46:01Z http://gangrey.com/2567 (h/t HS) Is the way Tao Lin writes a harbinger of a new no-style (concrete/literal) favored by the all-web generation? Tao Lin profile from The Observer: The Observer was sitting at his desk. It was Friday at 1:03 p.m. His Gmail was open, and the inbweofije... ben 2010-08-25T15:50:11Z http://gangrey.com/2566 Taught by SPT Enterprise Editor Kelley Benham. Here, with her permission, is the About This Course: In this class, you'll tell stories. A story is not an article. You'll learn the difference. You'll turn on your old friend, Inverted Pyramid, and embrweofije... Kruse 2010-08-25T09:32:31Z http://gangrey.com/2565 The conversation here in the enterprise pod this morning was centered on the St. Pete Times' new branding slogan: One Bay. One Buy. Which makes complete sense in this two-paper region on Tampa Bay, I guess, and is (way?) better, I guess, than the preweofije... ben 2010-08-25T09:15:35Z