I Had A Dream, Joe: Archive

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I wrote many words about billionaire Joe Ricketts... →

Joe Ricketts, the Nebraska-born mogul, fiscally conservative political donor and founder of the online brokerage titan TD Ameritrade, spent much of his life on the plains, where everything is flat. So when he decided in 2006, at the age of 65, to get a pièd-a-terre in Manhattan, Ricketts went for altitude, buying a condo on the 78th floor of the Times Warner Center’s north tower for...

Jul 31st

"Great long-form journalism comes from the... →

Jul 31st

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Jul 28th

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Most interesting thing I learned at tonight’s reading of “The Greatest 3-Minute Punk Stories 2” at Housing Works: The Magnetic Fields’ long-time former merch guy was a roadie in the ’90s for My Pal Trigger and—before that—Skavoovie and the Epitones.

Jul 27th

I’m getting to that point where I hear a song that sounds familiar, but I can’t quite tell whether it’s current Modest Mouse, old Built to Spill, or some new band with ex members of 764-HERO.

Jul 27th

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“In negotiating terms of engagement with a source, reporters and editors should...”

– I think this is one of those things that you’re probably not really thinking about when you’re in these situations, but probably should be! Especially when certain negotiations are conducted over back-and-forth e-mail exchanges that may or may not be taking place while you have 10 other...

Jul 26th

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