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What was the process of writing like? Surprising? Easy? Oh, well, if it was easy, it would have been surprising. No, it was awful. I procrastinated quite a bit. I thought - and this is just naiveté and ignorance - but I assumed it would be easier than it was. The beginning was easy because I just sort of took my time and was dicking around. And then as the deadlines started looming and a year turned into five months, I started getting a little panicky. So I was like, "Can I get an extension on this?" And the publishers were...
Which included Keith Olbermann. That was my idea. I'm friends with Keith. I like him quite a bit. And as he says in the blurb, we disagree about things, but we have very interesting, good, educated conversations about stuff. And we're in a fantasy-baseball league together...
...there's good seasonal karma right through December? In this seasonal scenario, December actually turns in the strongest performance, on average. There's a bit of seasonality to that too, since in a rising market you will typically see mutual-fund managers rush to add hot stocks to their portfolio at the end of the year so it shows up in their portfolio statements. There's much more performance pressure on money managers today than there used...
...Western culture and the lure of Islamic fundamentalism. The book is a fresh and funny bildungsroman, capturing an antic '80s London. Sadly the play is clunky and shallow, flattening its characters to the very stereotypes that Kureishi's better work has helped explode. The reviews were a bit "rough," admits Kureishi, but that's life as a writer: "You've got to take risks, do weirdo stuff...
...refusing to leave the stage. But when it comes to Obama, the comics are still groping. Greg Geraldo, a club stalwart whose material was filled with anti-Bush gibes a few years ago, has moved on to Obama, but mostly to execute a deft pivot - like a bit on John McCain's befuddlement at how to combat his Democratic foe during the presidential campaign. "How the f___ am I losing? I'm a war hero!" he imagines McCain thinking. "He came this close to saying, 'He's black!' " Ted Alexandro gets a big laugh by harking back to white America...