Monday March 14th, 2011

I've had a semi-exciting last few days. Last Friday I was accepted with scholarship at CUNY's Graduate School of Journalism (which I'm so incredibly excited about), and today I was pleasantly surprised to have received an email from the Charlie Sheen Tiger Blood Team as my application has been approved to move on to the second round.Despite my mother's opinion, I think this second piece of news is very exciting! Please hire me Charlie, I have to much to offer you an Team Win and this will be the perfect summer activity before school daze sets in! In the very least, I can only hope that Charlie read my cover letter. It was pretty brilliant if I don't say so myself. Meantime, I'm still waiting, anxiously I might add, to hear back from Columbia about whether or not I was accepted. This morning I came across a fantastic quote by Janet Malcolm about the journalism profession and the people who encompass it. Be it CUNY or Columbia, J-School here I come!

“Journalists are thought to be competitive, and sometimes they are, but their main feeling about one another is fraternal. Journalists love one another the way members of a family – in their case, a kind of crime family – do. In “Democracy in America,” Alexis de Tocqueville wrote [in 1831] of American journalists as persons of “low social status, [whose] education is only sketchy, and [whose] thoughts are often vulgarly expressed.” He went on to note that “the hallmark of the American journalist is a direct and coarse attack, without any subtleties, on the passions of his readers; he disregards principles to seize on people, following them into their private lives and laying bare their weaknesses and their vices.” Over the years, the social status and the education level of journalists have risen, and some journalists write extremely well. But the profession retains its transgressiveness. Human frailty continues to be the currency in which it trades. Malice remains its animating impulse. A trial offers unique opportunities for journalistic heartlessness. When the malignant, often libellous words of battling attorneys are lifted out of the heated context of the trial and set in cold type, a new, more exquisite torture is suffered by the object of their abuse – who now stands exposed to the world’s abuse. Journalists attending a long trial together develop a special camaraderie born of a shared good mood: their stories are writing themselves; they have only to pluck the low-hanging fruit of the attorneys’ dire narratives. They can sit back and enjoy the show.”

 

Ok, enough about me, here's what's happening in the blogosphere. It was today On March 14, 1879, that a boy named Albert Einstein was born to a Jewish family in Ulm, Wurttemberg, Germany. Einstein would have been 125 years old, and in an effort to keep his memory alive, today is national Pi day which is a double entendre of course as Pi which is 3.14 is also reflected in today's date 3/14. Pure perfection! So party on math geeks and number nerds, today's your day to shine!

Monday Headlines

Circle Up Math Geeks: It's Pi Day!
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20043006-1.html

The Next Twitter
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12735762

NumberPlay: Pi In The Sky
http://wordplay.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/14/numberplay-pi-in-the-sky/?src=twrhp

Alec Baldwin's Advice To Charlie Sheen
http://www.digtriad.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=166381&catid=176

Spoiler: Who Won Brad Womack's Heart
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20473666,00.html

Comedian Gilbert Gottfried Fired As Voice of Aflack Duck
http://www.cnn.com/2011/BUSINESS/03/14/georgia.aflac.duck/

Conan O'Brien Can't Stop Lands ThreeBuyers In Unique Deal At SXSW
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/risky-business/conan-obrien-cant-stop-lands-167402

Tribeca Film Festival Unveils Full Slate
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704893604576200872693926938.html

Williams Wedding Is Still Mostly A Royal Secret
http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2011-03-15-royalwed_CV_N.htm

Owsley Stanley, LSD Pioneer And Grateful Dead Collaborator, Dead At 76
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/owsley-stanley-lsd-pioneer-and-grateful-dead-collaborator-dead-at-76-20110314

Rock Hall Of Fame: A Night To Honor Musical Legends
http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/news/2011-03-15-rockhall15_ST_N.htm

Sublime Releasing First New Disc Since Bradley Nowell Died
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/sublime-releasing-first-new-album-since-singer-bradley-nowell-died-20110314