Horacio Silva, the New York Times critical shopper, recently detailed the rough handling he suffered amidst the unbearable preciousness of Tom Ford’s new menswear boutique on Madison Avenue.

 

Remember Sassy magazine? If you do, and you loved it as much as I did, let’s talk.

 

Mr. Murdoch wants the take it up a notch and buy Dow Jones & Company and the world’s leading financial paper, the Wall Street Journal. Who can blame him, really. His portfolio of holdings could be more balanced, and the Journal certainly could benefit from his legendary approach to cost management.

Today, St. Louis Cardinals relief pitcher Josh Hancock will be remembered at a memorial service in Tupelo, Miss. For those outside of Cardinal Nation, or who haven’t been following the story, Josh was killed in a horrific highway accident last weekend. According to sources, he had been drinking.

 

Alright, I am about to step on really thin ice and will likely be accused of being just another snobby European. Here it goes: When will the linguistic globalization finally reach America? Did you know when you order a panini, you technically order a rolls? No, not a typo. Panini in Italian is plural for panino (a roll). I wish they charged you for rolls instead of one roll but they don’t know any better. Same with cappuccino. No, it’s not cappuccinos, Dio mio! See panino, and you will know the answer.

 

A few weeks back when the worldwide BlackBerry server went down, there was a story in nearly every major newspaper about how it would cripple communication in the business world. I, for one, saw it as a respite and took advantage of the “down time” to communicate like the old days. In my opinion, we have become an impersonal world and text messaging, emails, IM and the like have left many of us in what I call a “long distance relationship” mode. We have all been in one of those. You know, a relationship where you feel like when you are apart, the relationship doesn’t really advance, and when you get together, you try and tell the other person every single thing that has happened in the past week or month.