by Jeffery Battersby | Mar 20, 2012 | Asides
Gruber: I think what Daisey really believes is that he deserves the attention his lies have brought him, and so he has no intention to stop telling them. I think Gruber’s right. Totally worth the read. Daring Fireball: Separating the Baby From the Bath...
by Jeffery Battersby | Mar 20, 2012 | Asides
Mike Daisey in an interview in the Playbill from the Wooley Mammoth Theater, the theater in Washington D.C. where The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs was workshopped. NOTE: He never answers the question or, as Ira Glass told him, he’s hedging. Madeleine...
by Jeffery Battersby | Mar 18, 2012 | Asides
Glenn Fleishman, who knew Mike Daisey in some distant past, on what he knew and what he expected would come of Mike Daisey’s “revelations.” Daisey revelations sad, but not surprising | via Macworld.com
by Jeffery Battersby | Mar 16, 2012 | Commentary, Featured, Writing
So… there’s going to be an update on This American Life tonight about a story they ran in January based on a stage play by Mike Daisey. To put it bluntly, as Ira Glass did on the TAL blog: Daisey lied to me and to This American Life producer Brian Reed during...
by Jeffery Battersby | Mar 16, 2012 | Asides
I was wondering about this guy as i hadn’t hear much since I saw the initial article about Felix Baumgartner’s upcoming 120,000′ skydive attempt in Outside Magazine. (Plus, my kids, who read the article too, kept asking me whether or not this guy had...
by Jeffery Battersby | Mar 14, 2012 | Asides
Newburgh is the town right across the river from where I live and the city where I worked for 15 years. It has seen a number of improvements over the last many years, but clearly it has a ways to go. At 106 gang-related arrests it far exceeds any other place on this...
by Jeffery Battersby | Mar 11, 2012 | Asides
One of the few umpiring names that I know, I can recall several games that Wendelstedt called. His NYTimes obit here.
