Alright, this is surely jumping the gun and I'm probably going to take it back by sooner rather than later (my money's on this afternoon) but right now, what I'm saying is: the new Wall Street Journal rocks, specifically Page One. Yesterday it was an article on an 150 women taking part in an Assassin-inspired game of competitive knitting ("I got the sock. I'm dead."), today it's a piece the trials and tribulations of putting on a good Nativity scene this holiday season, with a particular emphasis on the issue of animals who are stealing the show from their human co-stars with hijinks so hilarious I'm not entirely convinced they were unplanned.
In Mount Laurel, New Jersey, M and J were headed off to Bethlehem to do their thing when the donkey Mary was riding freaked out and took off. Joe jumped on the ass and tried to stop him but fell off, got caught in the reins, and was dragged for several hundred feet. At First United Methodist Church in Tuckerton, NJ, a camel ate the set. In Orange County, California, at the Crystal Cathedral, a donkey stepped on Joseph's foot and broke his toe. At Mount Olives Lutheran church in Mission Viejo, CA, rehearsals got held up for over an hour because two goats were screwing like animals ("They were just acting very inappropriately," Diane Girard, a co-coordinator of the program said. "We had to break it up.").
What does any of this have to do with business? Don't know, don't care. At all. Maybe I'm just a Jew getting into the Christmas spirit, maybe this article just has me fondly thinking about the time Joseph wrestled Larry to the ground and dislodged a pubic hair from his throat that had been stuck in there for days. I don't know what it is. I just know I like it, and want it to continue. (Thinking ahead for the coming year: how to deal with the ignorant fucks (that phrase should be in the lede) who tell you you've "got some schmutz" on your forehead on Ash Wednesday? The deadly sport of Canasta? These are just for instances, nobody's saying they're going to be used, I'm just trying to get a dialogue going, and you know the 'Journal' likes to come around these parts for story ideas, anyway.)
Awry in a Manger: It Takes a Miracle To Stage This Play [WSJ]
Posted by , Dec 18, 2007 8:22AM
"They were just acting very inappropriately," Diane Girard, a co-coordinator of the program said. "We had to break it up."
Posted by , Dec 18, 2007 8:55AM
The Journal has always (or at least, since Barney Kilgore's day) run great features on page one. I'm concerned that Murdoch will try to turn the front page into a traditional news-oriented page one. If I want traditional news stories on page one, particularly non-business news stories (which is what Murdoch has said he'd like to do), then I could read the New York Times.
Posted by , Dec 18, 2007 8:58AM
At Mount Olives Lutheran church in Mission Viejo, CA, rehearsals got held up for over an hour because two goats were screwing
Posted by sick , Dec 18, 2007 9:06AM
actually it just says that they were acting "inappropriately," which could be anything. they could have just been heavily petting. miss levin chose to assume they were doing it.
Posted by Bad Leg Quezada , Dec 18, 2007 9:31AM
It will soon be official that there has to be a negative story/image about Hillary on the front page of the Journal (somewhere) every day.
Posted by Snapfinger , Dec 18, 2007 9:37AM
Hm, I'm concerned that Bess could go this far in financial writing without ever having to read the Wall Street Journal before yesterday. I guess the paper really has become moot...aside from looking good on your desk.
Posted by , Dec 18, 2007 9:52AM
what looks better on the desk? wsj or ft?
Posted by Lumbergh , Dec 18, 2007 10:03AM
Depends on where you work. If you're at an American BB (ie Morgan, JPM, Goldman, etc.), then the Journal looks best. If you work at a European bank like ABN Amro, Barclays or (god forbid) WestLB, then by all means, keep the FT on your desk.
Posted by , Dec 18, 2007 10:08AM
The articles in FT are more to the point, plus the features are much more intersting. Big plus is that you don't have to deal with all that right wing editorial crap in the WSJ that has nothing to do with business, but just encourages white trash to vote the same as a certain subset of the wealthy, thereby supporting the WSJs libertarian agenda. Like prayer, flags, schools, guns, abortion, Iraq.
Posted by , Dec 18, 2007 10:11AM
amazing graphic
Posted by In Orange County, California, at the Crystal Cathedral, a donkey stepped on Joseph's foot and broke , Dec 18, 2007 10:14AM
im with levin, more assassin, more xmas hijinks
Posted by am i blind? , Dec 18, 2007 10:17AM
@ snapfinger: where does it say yesterday was the first day she read the journal?
Posted by jag , Dec 18, 2007 10:26AM
@am i blind: It seems that way since the WSJ has always run features like this one page one
Posted by take an interest in me, bl! , Dec 18, 2007 10:28AM
yeah, but she just started taking an interest in them now, doesn't mean she wasn't reading them. though calling it the "new wsj"... :)
Posted by , Dec 18, 2007 11:04AM
@9:52 FT on yr desk is a little like wearing cufflinks. You can pull it off at a certain level. However, if you're not there yet, it makes you look kind of foolish. Its is a great paper though, so I keep mine at home.
Posted by NotNasser , Dec 18, 2007 11:23AM
Joseph's kissing a magus?
"Ah, yes, what our family needs is some gold. To heck with the spices. Frankincense and myrrh both smell nice and all but, hey, gold is gold. Thank you. Com-here for a hug and kissy, you wise man you.
Posted by anon , Dec 18, 2007 12:12PM
I don't think you can ever rely on goats to know what's "appropriate" in social situations.