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From The Room: Getting Back on the Horse
December 23, 2008 - All you sailors, Farmer's Almanac editors and practicing Wiccans out there know that this past Sunday was the winter solstice, marking the shortest day in the northern hemisphere. I spent the brief day and long night snug in my well-appointed quarters, watching a Big Love marathon...
From The Room: Week Dollar Forcing Baseball Free Agents to Demand Compensation in Pesos
December 17, 2008 - New York, NY -- Baseball commissioner Bud Selig is said to be considering a request from the Players Association that would change the league's payment currency from the Dollar to the Peso. If he approves the deal it will mark the first time professional athletes in this country h...
From The Room: 2009 Emergency SAG Strike/Economy-Minded TV Schedule
December 11, 2008 - A Hollywood insider scumbag passed along the following top secret document to me: a sample week of television programming that the networks and cable outfits have designed with the looming Screen Actors Guild strike and overall budget considerations in mind. Behold the future of entertainment...Filed under: SAG, SAG strike, Screen Actors Guild, Screen Actors Guild strike, economy, economic downturn, economic crisis, Wall Street crisis, Wall Street collapse, Stock Market plunging, recession, depression, tv, entertainment, network tv, NBC, ABC, CBS, networks in trouble, networks collapsing, Jay Leno, Frank TV
From The Room: Score! Brian's Gonna Have to Marry Me Now That the Economy Sucks!
December 11, 2008 - Omg. Brian's company totally laid off 7% of it's workforce today, him included. His company has no more production team, and middle management will probably be replaced entirely by Columbia interns. This is it! Brian totally can't dump me now! In fact, I bet he's gonna...
From The Room: Happy Depressing Holidays!
December 10, 2008 - This holiday season, 23/6 and someecards.com wish you good tidings. Wait a minute, "tidings" means "jobs," right...Filed under: conomic crisis, economic downturn, recession, depression, government, U.S., American people, economy, joblessness, jobs, layoffs
From The Room: Winter in the Catskills: A Holiday Recession Song
December 9, 2008 - About 18 months ago I moved onto Main Street in Catskill, a small, blue-collar town in Upstate NY, where discarded Newport Lights cigarette packets are the garbage of choice. When we arrived, there was a sense of a town in the throws of re-imagining itself. There were art...Filed under: economic crisis, economic downturn, recession, depression, Catskills, Better for the Metaphor, government, U.S., American people, economy
From The Room: We're in a "Repression": The Economics of Shame
December 9, 2008 - If the current recession started last December, as the latest findings from the National Bureau of Economic Research clearly indicate, then it stands to reason that, considering things have gotten a lot worse since then, we're a lot closer to a depression than anyone has realized. Perhaps we're...Filed under: Automaker Bailout, Bailout, Big Three Automakers, Consumer Confidence, Consumer Spending, Detroit Three, Economic Crisis, Economic Downturn, Economy, Entertainment, Fannie Mae Freddie Mac Bailout, Federal Reserve, Financial Crisis, Great Depression, Henry Paulson, Humor, Lifestyle, Living, Mortgage Crisis, Obama Transition, Personal Finance, Political Satire, Recession, Recession Watch, Satire, Sex, Sexuality, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Subprime Mortgages, Treasury Secretary, Unemployment Rate
From The Room: We Have Met the Enemy and It Is Not Us
December 8, 2008 - According to economic experts, the current decline and fall of American civilization is going to "get worse before it gets better." In other words, after our empire ends we may have to wait a while before it comes back. This may not happen overnight, as there are other empires in...Filed under: economic crisis, economic downturn, recession, depression, Plaxico Buress, Barack Obama, government, U.S., American people, economy
From The Room: Cheap Date: Drinking & Dating During a Recession
December 6, 2008 - So it finally happened: right when you needed vodka the most, the recession has gotten between your drinking and your sex life, or lack thereof. Forget the vintage Dom Perignon champagne, soft lighting, rounds and rounds of drinks bought for your mate, and several cabs throughout the evening. Those...
From The Room: The Clueless Cup
December 5, 2008 - In an upset worthy of Marin Day School covering the spread against the Green Bay Packers through the first three quarters of a spirited scrimmage at Lambeau Field, the coveted Clueless Cup appears to be on the verge of falling out of the clutches of President Bush's staff for...
From The Room: My 2008 Christmas Wish List
December 4, 2008 - Now that the lawsuit has been filed, the shoppers have returned home, and the deadliest Black Friday in the history of sales is over, it is officially Christmas season (unless your Jewish, in that case it's Hanukkah season). It's finally here and so is my latest Christmas Wish...
From The Room: Country Decides Toothpaste Makes Great Christmas Gift
December 1, 2008 - Emmaus, PA -- Joe and Lori Metuchen realized something Friday, as they were waiting on a long line at 4:00 AM for a nearby Best Buy to open: toothpaste is a great gift for Christmas. The Metuchens, like so many other Americans, were hoping to take advantage of huge discounts...Filed under: Christmas gifts, Christmas, toothpaste, economic downturn, economic crisis, recession, lay offs, Christmas shopping, Black Friday
From The Room: The Carving Conundrum
November 26, 2008 - The local news had a cooking segment on how to carve a Thanksgiving turkey and I thought to myself, "This isn't news! What idiot doesn't know how to carve a turkey?" Oh wait... me. If it were up to moi, I'd pass the turkey around the table...
From The Room: Things to Be Thankful for This Year
November 25, 2008 - If the current economic crisis has turned your Thanksgiving feast into two packages of raw Ramen noodles and a few cookie crumbs slurped up from between the sofa cushions, just remember there are still some things to be thankful for...
From The Room: The Mighty Mighty Pilgrims
November 26, 2008 - One way to get through these hard financial times is to draw inspiration from those who came before us. Think of your parents and the struggles they went through, think about the WW II generation, the civil rights movement, or those who persevered through the first Great Depression. Think a...
