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Monday, Jan 16
Media Minutiae, The Cheese Actually Doesn't Stand Alone Edition
I know crusty; you, sir, are extremely crusty:Slate's Sara Dickerman tries out the NYT's wildly popular mac n' cheese recipes. The Creamy recipe turns out "well enough" but the crusty one is a gummy, congealed, dry, icky mess. Ew! Oh, who am I kidding, I'd totally still eat it. [Slate]
Google's Shadow Payroll... sounded deliciously scandalous when I clicked on the NYT headline. Sadly, it's just about something the web-savvy have known for ages: Google will pay you to post ads for them. [NYT]
"Desperate Housewives" Creator Marc Cherry Is Neither Desperate Nor Plural: Such a nitpicker, but still: can you spot the error in this glib teaser from the front page of yesterday's Style section? "The creator of 'Desperate Housewives' is neither."
Is the MPA generous or stupid?Slate's Timothy Noah makes a case for the latter, also for "corrupt." Either way, they are linked in an unsavoury fashion to one Jack Abramoff. [Slate]
Take David Edelstein's First Column, Please! The former Slate film critic has his debut at New York, opening with Fishbowl's favorite corny overdone joke: "Take My Wives, Please!" re: Albert Brooks' search for comedy in the Muslim World. He finds that it is no King Kong. [NYMag]