I'm taking a little break from chronicling the disrupted circadian rhythms of our city's stalwart photogs to send a little shout-out to print, echoing my position from Sunday night: the internet is great and all, but sometimes you just gotta love print. I get a bunch of magazines, including New York, but by the time they arrive I've already checked things out online. Sometimes I don't even crack it until the end of the week (New Yorker, too. I know! 30 lashes for me). Which is why I had such a pleasant surprise in the waiting area at Michael's this week: flipping through New York with the finally-actually-looking-his-age Viggo Mortensen on the cover, I actually kind of gasped at the gorgeous portfolio by Roger Deckker, particularly the high-def shot of Viggo, the two black and white shots of George Packer and Joan Snyder, and the amazing shot of Stephen Sondheim and heir-apparent Adam Guettel (that was the gasp moment. High-def Sondheim! He's so hummable). It just really drove home how pleasurable it is to read a magazine, especially for features like this (I'm not even including the link because the online version is so vastly inferior to the print version).

I will say this, though, about a certain item on pg. 58: Best Industry Development "Screw You, Toronto?" Aw! Not nice! Especially to one of your "Best New Yorkers of the Year," Will Arnett...born and raised, baby. Ditto clutch senior editor Adam Sternbergh...I'm just sayin'. Show the love.

Another nice mag-only moment this week: Howard Halle's interview wtih Gilbert Gottfried on the back page of Time Out. Just try to find it on line; you won't. (Update: Actually, you will, but not by Googling. Here is the magic link.)

What prompted me think to write this: receiving a heads-up email from New York publicist Betsy Burton about next week's issue, with the cover "117 Reasons to Love New York Right Now" and it made me think "117 Reasons to Love Print Right Now." There are more reasons of course; send 'em our way. Fisbhowl is at its happiest when we're congratulating people for being awesome.

P.S. I would have clicked on the email from Betsy, but there were no links.