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...family members high-fiving one another at an outdoor sporting event - and looking like, as one blogger put it, a "laid-back Satanic cult" - have appeared during prime time on such cable stalwarts as ESPN, Comedy Central and CNN, becoming so ubiquitous that everyone from Jay Leno to a gazillion people on YouTube is taking note. Witness this "Cult of the Snuggie" parody, for example...
There will be around 10,500 athletes competing in Beijing this month; fewer than 100 are internationally famous. In this era of sports as primetime entertainment, where American basketball stars or European footballers can expect gazillion-dollar ad contracts and the adulation of millions of fans, it's easy to forget that most top-flight athletes are normal folks who fly economy and have time to help a kid locate his duckie. Most toil in their designated sports in hours squeezed between, say, school or factory shifts. Weightlifting, in particular, may be one of the Olympics' most fundamental pursuits...
Five hundred Gazillion Web video channels and nothing good on? Google this: You Suck at Photoshop. Narrated by the fictional Donnie Hoyle--an angry, sarcastic, cuckolded Photoshop expert--it was launched in late December and ended 10 episodes later, in April, when Donnie mysteriously disappeared. Not that you ever saw him. In the videos, the camera remains centered on a computer desktop and follows Donnie's cursor as he conducts mock tutorials on how to use the photo-altering application. Sound obscure? Maybe not. With the explosion of blogging and do-it-yourself publishing, Photoshop has become...
Does the name Amy Sutherland sound familiar? Perhaps in 2006 you were one of a gazillion people who were forwarded her personal essay "What Shamu Taught Me About a Happy Marriage," which ended up becoming the New York Times' most e-mailed article of the year. That story, born out of her experience working with students at a place she calls "the Harvard for exotic animal training," detailed the discovery that she could train her husband, Scott, just as she learned to train dolphins. Movie offers, television appearances and a barrage of emails followed, not to mention a book contract...
...they make different choices about work and family.“Equivalent men and women, who go to the same college, graduate from the same law school, get the same job after graduation—we see them ten years later, the guy’s making a gazillion and the woman is in a small practice making maybe 60 percent as much,” Goldin says.“Why is that the case? Most likely, she made a conscious decision to shift into a smaller practice that didn’t have 80-hour work weeks...