A sneak peek at Sarah Palin's new book

This just in!

Sarah Palin's new book has chapters!

Five of them!

In a nod to her constituents, Sarah Palin restrained herself from writing a lengthy book. Or one that might be considered cerebral.

Time Magazine's Mark Halperin reports that there are just five chapters in Sarah Palin's new book, "Going Rogue."

"But they are very, very long," says Halperin.

Expect to hear much more about Palin's book starting next Monday. That's when Oprah's interview with Palin will air.

I'm wondering if Oprah - or anyone in the media - will eventually get around to addressing the supreme irony of a woman allegedly "writing" a book, who, a little more than a year ago couldn't even come up with the name of a single newspaper or magazine that she reads regularly.

Friday night ballad

Recorded by Frank Sinatra on March 25, 1959 for the Capitol album "No One Cares."

Half a century old and it's still better then the crap they put out today!

Better late than never!

"When U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents at the Port of Los Angeles opened a shipping container bound for the Netherlands, they discovered a 1965 Volkswagen bus stolen in Washington state 35 years ago."
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"It looks like it's brand new," said Mike Maleta, an investigator with the California Highway Patrol.

Some people just don't get it

Stumbled upon this show over the weekend.

The show features a lot of 19 year-old college boys, - who, after consuming about three beers - think they're smarter and tougher than everyone else.

And the kid in this video reminded me of a certain South Florida blogger who always wants to blame his misfortunes on someone else.

Pay attention to the cop who tells the kid, "I'm not doing this to you, you did this to yourself."

video via TruTV

Halloween on Lincoln Road

Miami New Times has posted a slide show of pictures I shot of the Halloween Freak-travaganza on Lincoln Road Saturday night.

Enjoy!

Hockey match breaks out in Washington Post newsroom!

Former Miami-based Washington Post reporter Manuel Roig-Franzia
So this reporter calls the editor a "sword swallower" and that's when things started to go downhill!

Okay, so he used another word that means "sword swallower."
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Want to know how tense things are getting at newspapers?

They're now throwing punches!

"Washington Post executive editor Marcus Brauchli found himself in the middle of an altercation Friday evening between [former Miami-based Washington Post] reporter Manuel Roig-Franzia and editor Henry Allen, but will not say whether the two have been reprimanded by the paper.
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"Roig-Franzia, also working a story with Hesse that ran Saturday, told Allen not to be such a “c—sucker."

"Allen swung twice, with one punch hitting Roig-Franzi, according to sources. Next, staffers on the 4th floor —including Brauchli, who’s office is temporarily across from the Style section — jumped in to break up the altercation."

More here and here.