From zeitgeist queen Tina Brown's column in today's Washington Post:

Silly us; we always thought "travel" entails actually, you know, traveling somewhere.

Also — yes, yes — to find gambling going on.

Because the Times Co. can't seem to do much of anything these days without some degree of agitation, there's more building babel around the new headquarters currently growing upwards into the Manhattan skyline. 10 of the 11 former property owners who were pushed aside to make room for the new HQ are now suing for further compensation. Even more bothersome is that should these small-business Davids prove victorious against the development Goliaths, they'll take their winnings from the city and state treasuries.

From yesterday's Times Business section, an article in which Jeffrey Gettleman explores the mass-marketing of popular drinking games:

FishbowlNY makes a great point: Leaky Times reporter Judith Miller and the Daily News' very-Christian headline writer Dawn Eden have a lot in common: They're both on some sort of hiatus (Eden from her blog, anyhow), they're both working on books (Dawn's writing some "don't have sex" thing, and Judy's making bank on her rumored deal), and they both threw their own shit at the office fan (Eden left the Post after her editing skills got a bit too pro-Jesus, and Miller, well, you know). Plus, we'd like to add, they both do what they're told without skepticism or question (Miller by the government, Eden by G-d).

We suspect we're in the minority on this, but we continue to think Times chief Bill Keller gives great staff memo.

We feel your pain. It's just been sitting there, a few smidges of ink on the front of yesterday's front page and whole spurts more across two full inside pages, and you know that to be a good, informed, interested person you really, really ought to read the whole enormous Judy Miller takeout.

• The Times's silence on Judy Miller has become absurd. [CJR]
• Even public editor Barney Calame doesn't understand why the silence continues. Which might just put an end to it — after all, this is the man who ultimately got Geraldo his correction. [NYTimes.com]
• But the Times's op-ed columnists, at least, all have excellent reasons why they haven't written about Miller Time. [E&P]
• Beyonce is too black for the cover of Vanity Fair. Of course, so are we. [Radar]
• Men's Health spinoff Best Life ups frequency, rate base. Which is what you get from worshipping at the altar of your readers. [Mediaweek]
• Former Time Warner chief Gerald Levin helps open super-high-end spa in Santa Monica. Next month, he'll merge it with eSpas.com and ruin the company. [LAT]
• Mag bigshots should — of all things — take Jon Stewart seriously. [MarketWatch]

Apparently it's been raining a lot. We had no idea, until the Times told us:

A shocked reader sent us a link to this Los Angeles Times article, adding the following:

• Greg Mitchell, establishing his cred with an ultra-obscure Dylan reference, mentions the rarely mentioned: "Keller's defense of Miller pre-dates the Plame case. The Times not only apparently failed to punish her for her WMD reporting ..., it went out of its way to shield her from embarrassment. "
• And he sends us off to Howard Kurtz's piece on the frustrations of anonymous Times staffers with their bosses. "Worse than Jayson Blair" is the new black. Former Timesman and major league asshole Adam Clymer sez everyone's still a little sore about Judy's behavior as deputy Washington bureau chief back in the day.
• Jay Rosen goes off on a glorious tear of speculation. It's a thing of beauty.
• Any day now, guys. Any day now.

The Nobel Prize in Literature was presented to Harold "Ha'Pint" Pinter, a Great Britain-based author who calls himself "The Playwrighta."

New York Times New York/Region Section, October 11, 2003:

The Times today looks at Comedy Central's forthcoming Colbert Report, which debuts Monday, and considers the tough terrain faced by television spinoffs:

From the Black Table's Black List, the source for all your various disgruntlements:

It's early and we've yet to snort our morning lines of Folgers, so we were highly confused when we saw the picture above with the caption, "Marta Kauffman, right, in October 2002, on the set of her previous

• It's the sort of link we dream of: Chris Wilson, porn, and the movement to save him. [Save Chris Wilson]

• If Carrie Fisher continues travel writing, she will eventually go to many different places for many different reasons. [Fametracker]

• Fuck: Lauren Weisberger has risen above our campaign of passive resistance to crawl up the Amazon sales rankings with the skill of a veteran social climber. [Amazon]

• The Times celebrates the high holidays with the heartwarming story of a doctor, a Jew, and the pig valve that brought them all together. [Canonist]

• "How am I supposed to care about Nick and Jessica when I still know nothing about the Classmates.com couple?!" [dude.man.phat.]

• And today in viral content, UNICEF kills the Smurfs to make a point. [End of Smurfs]

• Hey, bloggers: Quit being such assholes. Link exchanges aren't even a cool payoff for such disgusting blackmail. Go outside or something, please. [Opinionistas]

What follows is a just-leaked top secret preview of tomorrow's Times coverage of Judith Miller's testimony today:

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