Romanesko - "News and information is the new rock 'n roll," says Abrams

It's not often that the subject line of an email makes you smile the way that one did for me. It's about the new "Innovation Officer" for the Tribune company. (Good innovation, like rock 'n roll, is rarely created by top-level executive hires).

Not that I'm related to Lee Abrams. Or Gen. Creighton Abrams (of the Abrams tank). Or weatherman Elliott Abrams. Or to Iran-Contra figure Elliott Abrams, lately of the National Security Council (although he did once send me an email he thought was going to his sister).

Miscellaneous

• It's always humorous when your children reuse your idiosyncratic phrases. Joshua opened up a DVD from the library this evening and declared "This DVD has serious shmutz on it" and brought it to me to clean.


• This was something that made me laugh yesterday: The “Blog” of “Unnecessary” Quotation Marks


• While checking my del.icio.us bookmarks for that URL, I just saw a blog that I had saved for looking at some more: The Jew and the Carrot. Perhaps a bit more radical than my taste, but bringing three of my interests (Judaism, food, and social responsibility).

Various Thoughts

I actually had time to read much of the Sunday NYT while visiting my inlaws this weekend (partly because the second half of the paper comes on Saturday - I wish the Globe would do that for either my Sunday Globe or Sunday times).

The travel section had an article on tea in Portland, OR that made me want to go back. Robin and I had some great tea there on our honeymoon.

Then Sunday Styles made me realize: it's hip to be a librarian. And I am proudly one (even if I'm not really a practicing one). Not only am I a librarian, I'm a Guybrarian.

Lastly, a curious 21st century moment: I took the twins to see "Ratatouille" (a great movie). I had to explain to Joshua that there was no DVD playing, but rather film, and it didn't had a menu, and (most tragically) I couldn't fast-forward through the parts he found scary. Kids these days: he understands the difference between a DVR and a DVD, but doesn't have a concept of what film is.