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Just found out I may have to stay on call in New York next weekend in case the war breaks. Since I work in News and all. I’m supposed to be going away with my father and brother on Friday for our once-every-two-year trips to Myrtle Beach to drink beer and eat shrimp. So I’m…

My new favorite web site? Ready Dot Gov. I especially enjoy the “Nuclear Blast” Acrobat file. Not only because of the bitchin’ graphics, but also because of the sheer absurdity of it. “Consider if you can get out of the area; Or if it would be better to go inside a building.” Oy. Here on…

Maybe you heard we got a little snow here in NYC? Did we ever. Like, 24 inches. And it was so beautiful, so quiet in the city. It was falling as we filed out of ‘Daredevil’ Sunday night (yes, I went to see ‘Daredevil.’ And yes, it was just ok. But sometimes I like that…

Just hit the 12-hour mark here at the MTV. Which isn’t so bad. When I started back in 1996 and we were literally building the first iteration of daily news online, we worked 60 hour weeks every week, easy. And the on air team is still in the newsroom working away. So I’m not alone.…

It’s the end of the world. At least that’s what I thought last night. I was walking back to work from rehearsal on 30th Street, through the cold, past the drunk frat boys pouring out of the Knicks game at Madison Square garden, past a half dozen panhandlers, each more desperate looking than the last.…

Got hammered last night. The department threw a going away party at The Whiskey (in the W) for our assignment editor, an old school employee of 15 years. An open bar on an empty stomach spells disaster. And it was. People were falling over, breakin’ shit. Some tossed their cookies at work today. Other, like…