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Twitter invites me to follow both
@TheLewisBlack & PM
@netanyahu Does that say more about them or me?
Nicest email on my novel Pretty Birds
tinyurl.com/c2kk2z5 from pitmaster at
@DallasLockhart Will is insightful reader!
Book of the Day: Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other by Scott Simon (
@nprscottsimon)
#Books #Memoir ow.ly/kzThK Our
@arishapiro just asked, "This admin prosecuted twice as many leakers as all others combined. How does this reflect balance?"
OK everyone, so the plan is when Commander Hadfield lands, we'll all be wearing ape masks.
II) --"Who starred in it anyway?" I said, "Daniel Craig." She said, "Why did we waste our time on the Swedish version?"
I) Wife & I enjoyed Swedish Girl With Dragon Tattoo. She says, "No need to do US version. I hate when Hollywood does that--"
Monitoring reporter's phone records chills.
@ACLU raising questions reminds us they challenge excesses of liberals, too.
WATCH: Woman kicked off JFK-bound flight for refusing to stop singing Whitney Houston's 'I will always love you'
nyp.st/10lCU7P BBQ sauces compete for sinister names (Ass-kicking, The Widow Sanchez, Hot & Nasty, etc). What about just Tobacco ?
Kids from China, Russia, India, Mexico snack on my wife's pain du chocolate for kindergarten France Day: America!
pic.twitter.com/GhmzrP73cD 
French Day in daughter's kindergarten. Ask, "What's France's favorite sport?" One boy says, "Yoga!"
pic.twitter.com/w39FHgvuMo By request: this week's essay on special vision of mothers:
n.pr/19bqIrj w/ eyes in the back of their head.
Alma Guillermoprieto has written the best and most accurate description of post-Chavez Venezuela. Via NYReviewofBooks
nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/… Zounds--George Carlin would have been 76 today! He can RIP. We shouldn't.
@kelly_carlin keeps fanning flame of his genius.
Look at my behind-the-scenes interview with
@PushPage:
pushpage.me/ScottSimon 
Isn't this breakfast display ready for
@MarthaStewart ?
pic.twitter.com/6o1yJVB5MB Hey hey! Watching Cubs-Nats game, Cubs w/ 7 run lede. Tell my daughters, "Treasure this moment." Cub lead. And daughters.
Sondheim's mother once said she was "sorry-grateful." Yrs later, a song. This unlikely trio does well
tinyurl.com/dxfavsu Just listening to Norm Lewis &
@AudraEqualityMc in 2012 Porgy & Bess revival. How did I miss this last year? Terrific.
By request: this week's essay on special vision of mothers:
n.pr/19bqIrj Eyes in back of head & middle of heart
"Missing: Jonathan Winters. Badly." Dick Cavett's superb recollection of a singular talent (Part 2).
@NYTOpinionator:
ow.ly/kVMxK Our engineer@blusrat22 flicking lighter in control room as we listen to Yngwie shred (& talk movingly of his life & wife)
Coming up--sports!!! And then the master of the neoclassical shred guitar (Yngiwie!), then great new novel Americanah-
Oooh, spoke too soon. "That dung was steaming" also just heard. And then--Julie Andrews! We bring you the full story!
"Checking their poop" and "fresh dung-pie" just heard on our program. But when a scientist says it, it's scholarly.
Up ahead: latest from Syria, followed by expert who believes a No Fly son is practical & wise. We'll ask.
My friend
@HESherman gently says I'm naive not to know
CT has had a great blues venue:
ow.ly/kVLNw Shaboo Inn
Can't believe I just overheard myself tell James Cotton, "You suck the reeds right out of your harp..." The blues made me do it-
Up ahead: Christopher Guest on his new HBO doc-style series (he doesn't like the term mockumentary), & bluesman James Cotton-
OK, we've had Mimolette, mites & all, & I'd say it's worth it. Aren't insects the protein of the future, anyway?
On the air! Important segment coming up on the factory collapse in Bangladesh, & responsibilities of US consumers, too.
Just heard audio from Syrian rebel who says, "We have less ammunition than what most Americans have under their bed."
Morning, all. In studio. Watered, caffeinated, & ready to leap upon the news like a CNN producer on new pics of Jodi Arias.
I like Prince Harry. Seems sincere as well as fun, & left an eloquent card at Arlington
pic.twitter.com/m0w57Ktduo Typo! Interviewed
@plutokiller & announced him as "astrologist" not astronomer. He laughed. But didn't tell me my sun sign.
Just chatted with
@nprscottsimon about the Science Laureate idea. I suggested science lectures at super bowl halftime. Listen tomorrow!
The
@WSJ's
@JoeMorgenstern reviews Gatsby today. Worth getting behind the paywall--tough, fair, masterpiece of criticism.
Our 6yr olds treatise on EU currency crisis artfully disguised at children's story:
pic.twitter.com/LJu1nrmsH4 Moving photos of Prince Harry's visit to
@ArlingtonNatl including Harry's hand-written note to the fallen.
pic.twitter.com/znwm6GNSsQ A great talk to graduates by Stephen Carter on resisting groupthink:
bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-0… via@JeffreyGoldberg
On my way to kindergartener's "publication party" for their class books. Sure Sonny Mehta & Jon Karp lurking in hedges.
My friend
@BeschlossDC posts some amazing photos, inc Jefferson Davis in a dress
pic.twitter.com/JfzuuMpPBW Yankee Photoshop?
Tough news day brightened seeing note our 6yr old wrote her kindergarten teacher Ms Hayes. Perfectly put:
pic.twitter.com/MIx4fO4J1k I really do try not to be a prideful person, but I am so damned pleased with myself for not knowing who Jodi Arias is.
So nice! Christopher Guest (new HBO series FAMILY TREE) says I make him laugh. But if he says same thing to Charlie Rose...
Why do news orgs say Mark Sanford won "redemption"? He won a seat in congress. Redemption is something else.
Professional perk: seeing Christopher Guest's HBO's FAMILY TREE & the fab talents of
@ninaconti so beautifully used.
I wish they'd invent a 3D printer that could make a good burrito. More worthwhile than some the other stuff I read about.
Our 4th grader has new contemporary math problem: how much $$ does father's anti-statin pills cost w/ and w/out insurance?