RECESSION CLAIMS ANOTHER RECESSION CHRONICLER
Thursday, May 14th, 2009 Posted in FROM THE EDITORS |Like the Chester’s Fried Chicken mascot who merrily cheers his own impending doom (inset), the reporter who doggedly chronicles the lives of the unemployed seems grimly fated to join the unemployed. Last month, Lou Carlozo, who wrote the very good ...
THE BREADLINE IN THE SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE
Monday, May 11th, 2009 Posted in FROM THE EDITORS |This site is included in an article in San Diego’s Union-Tribune of how people are finding humor in the dire straits of recession-time. There are a couple of restaurants in the story that come perilously close to playing it all ...
SOME NOT VERY USEFUL ADVICE FROM JAMES BEARD
Tuesday, May 5th, 2009 Posted in FROM THE EDITORS |Last weekend, I found in a bookstore’s 50¢ stack the only James Beard cookbook I had never before seen, How to Eat Better for Less Money. I was hoping that this book, written in 1954 with Sam Aaron, the longtime ...
BUY STOCK IN CHEAP SEATS
Monday, April 20th, 2009 Posted in FROM THE EDITORS |A temperate day, the first-ever regular-season Sunday game at the new Yankee Stadium, excitement high. But to look at the premium seats behind home plate (below left, with Derek Jeter at bat), conspicuous in their sparsity of occupants, you’d think ...
EKING IT OUT
Thursday, April 16th, 2009 Posted in FROM THE EDITORS |Before getting laid off in February, I’d held full-time office jobs since 2000, and I’d gotten accustomed to the rhythm of the workaday life—lulled by it, I realize in retrospect. But now, eking out a living is a patchwork affair. ...
THE THINGS YOU GOTTA DO
Sunday, April 5th, 2009 Posted in FROM THE EDITORS |This is the sort of “I never thought I’d see the day” thing that happens to you when you suddenly find yourself unemployed... The other day, I received a letter from the New York State Department of Labor informing me that ...
NETFLIXING THROUGH THE RECESSION: THE SURPRISING SUCCOR OF APOCALYPSE MOVIES
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009 Posted in FROM THE EDITORS |It’s a truism that in hard times people seek out movies as diversions from their despair—musicals, comedies, romances. In the weeks since I lost my job, I’ve been getting into the apocalypse. It wasn’t a conscious decision. The first book ...
THE BREADLINE VS. THE-BREADLINE; OR, WHY OUR SITE ADDRESS HAS THAT ANNOYING HYPHEN IN IT
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009 Posted in FROM THE EDITORS |When I decided to set up a recession-themed blog, “The Breadline” was the very first title that popped in my head. For once in my life, I thought I’d go with my gut rather than agonize over coming up with ...
