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My problem with Lisa Kron’s autobiographical Well on Broadway is that I didn’t enjoy it.  read more »

My problem with Lisa Kron’s autobiographical Well on Broadway is that I didn’t enjoy it.  read more »

Thousands of dollars of Northwest Airlines and Jet Blue tickets to fly in what the campaign calls "late help": ringers who have worked with the campaign and wanted to be there in the election's endgame .

According to the Bloomberg campaign, at least a portion of those flown in (commercial, not corporate, mind you) were summer interns who came back from college to volunteer in canvasing operations.  read more »

The campaign also paid for tens of thousands of dollars in Metrocards and Enterprise Rent-A-Cars to help out canvasers with more traditional transportation.

To the Editor:    read more »

As we passengers joyously disembarked from JetBlue Flight 292 on the evening of Sept.  read more »

Lots to read in today's Observer.

I make the point that Mike could lose this one; I also get an early look at that Kerry documentary that's causing all the fuss.

Jason Horowitz dives into the recriminations surrounding Eve Rachel Markewich's race for Surrogate, a.k.a, he writes, the "worst campaign in living memory."

Jess Bruder talks to Jon Corzine.  read more »

Matt Schuerman dissects the Freedom Center controversy, noting that the center isn't holding.

Less directly relevant to politics, two must-reads: Alexandra Jacobs's unexpected first-person tale of that Jet Blue flight that landed amid flames, and Tom Scocca's bowing to the inevitable and profiling Nick Denton.

Just a little snippet of last night's CNN transcript, in which the New York Observer's features editor Alexandra Jacobs, who was aboard Jet Blue last night for an emergency landing, apologizes to Anderson Cooper for watching a rival network on-board and proves that a critic is still a critic in an airplane malfunction.

JACOBS: We were watching TV. Everyone was watching their different programs and I happened to see a gentleman, a couple of rows in front of me... was tuned to, actually I'm sorry -- a rival network, MSNBC. I don't know if CNN is available on JetBlue, on Direct TV.

But anyway, he was watching it and I think that's when the panic sort of began to accumulate. Because people realized it was a national event or it was being treated as a national event on, you know, the same as the Rita storm, which I think made us scared.

COOPER: Yes, no one wants to be part of a national event.

JACOBS: Exactly right.

[...]

JACOBS: Yes. We couldn't believe the irony that we might be watching our own demise on television. That seemed a little bit post- post modern, if you will.

COOPER: You're spoken like a true New Yorker. And a true reporter, post-modern. I'm thinking you were the only one on the aircraft who was remarking on the post-modernist of it all.  read more »

JACOBS: Well.

The Transom is very much relieved to see the Observer's six-months-pregnant and incredibly well-composed features editor Alexandra Jacobs on CNN with Anderson Cooper, discussing her experience as a passenger during tonight's amazing Jet Blue disaster landing. Ms. Jacobs is not one to jump happily into a plane, and, as a fellow airplane-hater, The Transom salutes her on her victory over gravity, worst fears, and malfunction.

In fact, Ms. Jacobs was so composed that she subverted the entire tricky reporter vs. accident victim paradigm.  read more »

The passengers on-board were watching television images of their own plane. It was, Ms. Jacobs told Mr. Cooper, a "postmodern" experience. As the emergency landing began, the flight attendants repeatedly chanted, "'Brace! Brace! Brace!,' she reported, like an upsetting prayer, or "like a mantra." —Choire Sicha

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