Word: steins
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...Many readers felt that writer Joel Stein's antic skepticism was ill suited to the subject of meditation. "He would not have used such a flip, disrespectful tone in an article on Christian or Jewish ritual," wrote a religion professor from Georgia. Asked a minister from Maine: "Why the sarcasm? What was Stein afraid of?" And a New Yorker offered a brief, blunt primer on meditation: "The goal is to calm the mind enough that you don't need to make really lame jokes...
...into his cheek, evidence of a 20-can-a-week habit. "Some stuff you can do without," he says. "And some stuff you can't." On his living-room walls are a wild boar he shot in Tennessee and a bass he caught in Maryland, a beer-stein collection and a photo of the nine standing in front of one of the huge water pumps that helped save them...
...nearly 20 personal-ad dates, is single. "My friend Jack loves to introduce me as 'my friend Emma who just wrote a sex manual and can't get laid,'" says Taylor. "I find myself making disclaimers that those who can't do, write sex manuals." --By Joel Stein...
...week, Trio even changed its slogan from "Pop, Culture, TV" to "Joel, Stein, TV" and had me introduce each show. They also had me write and host a half-hour show of clips from my selections. It was about 12 hours into the day of shooting that it struck me that I wasn't getting paid for any of my work: not the hosting, the months of programming, the Good Clean Porn show or the My Trio idea. Trio is indeed the smartest network in the world...
...Idol team is already planning a Bob Hope--Bing Crosby--style buddy musical comedy for Ruben Studdard and Clay Aiken, the winner and runner-up of the second season of Idol. It might turn out that you can't lose money underestimating the niceness of teens. --By Joel Stein...