Ten Things To Do During the Recession Besides Getting a Nose Job
In early April, the front of AM New York, the free paper I read on the days I commute to Manhattan, bore this headline: "From NO JOB to NOSE JOB." The accompanying image was a beautiful woman whose face was marked up with dotted lines and arrows, a blueprint of sorts for the construction project to come. The premise of the article was that there is an increasing number of people in today's economy who are gettin...
Other than “eat paper”
From The Guardian: Don't get depressed: A writer's guide to surviving the recession. 1.Write in English, British, or American If you want an international audience, however small, it makes no sense to write in Swedish unless you're Stieg Larsson....
“It’s kind of like we all went overboard”
From the New York Times: Conspicuous Consumption, a Casualty of Recession. "I think this economy was a good way to cure my compulsive shopping habit," Maxine Frankel, 59, a high school teacher from Skokie, Ill., said as she longingly stroked a diaphanous black shawl at a shop in the nearby Chicago suburb of Glenview. "It's kind of funny, but I feel much more satisfied with the things money can't buy, like the well-be...
