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Irony, dead or alive, got surprising amounts of attention in a moment when news outlets actually had some real news to relay after a summer of shark attacks and painfully-extracted sexual confessions. Even some comedians themselves, an admittedly self-important group by trade, were surprised at how the national spotlight turned toward funny business...
Hollywood, Fla., is an overlooked burg outshone by Miami on one side and Fort Lauderdale on the other, trying to grab some limelight with a string of sushi and blues restaurants. One such establishment is Shuckums Oyster Pub and Seafood Grill, a music showcase with the requisite life-size shark mounted on an ocean-colored wall. It was at Shuckums, on Sept. 8, that Mohamed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi did some pre-mass murder tippling. Atta drank vodka and orange juice, while Al-Shehhi preferred rum and cokes, five drinks apiece. "They were wasted," the bartender recalled, and Atta...
...give up on the amusement that is reality television altogether.] That is, of course, until the great digital cable explosion of September 2001. Now even the true north can no longer be strong and free as MTV Canada sinks its tenterhooks into my homeland. [As for my lovely shark-infested, hurricane-threatened hometown in South Florida, MTV represents high culture...
...been fixated on Condit," Kurtz said. But without a corpse - or a word from the congressman - the saga had run up against its limits in May and June, and by August, added Kurtz, the doldrums had clearly set in. "You know things are slow when TV is replaying shark footage and the mere fact that the president is on vacation becomes an opportunity for endless media thumbsucking...
...seamen and picking up African treasures. Today, as I stroll along the harbor, stevedores off-load shipments slowly - a languor born of chronic underemployment. Still, the Chinese come. "We Chinese can find business opportunities everywhere," grins Cen Haokun, one of three affable brothers who own six restaurants and a shark's fin and sea cucumber exporting business in Mombasa. Farther down the coast, Mohamed Oloya lops dorsal fins off great whites, then sells them to a middleman who transfers the shark bits to the brothers Cen. The Malindi-born fisherman is unsure why the Chinese crave a useless chunk...