The New York Times reports on salaries at Carnegie Hall:
The men — Dennis O’Connell, properties manager; James Csollany, carpenter; John Goodson and John Cardinale, electricians; and Kenneth Beltrone, carpenter — were identified on Carnegie’s tax return for the 2007-8 season as being the hall’s leading five earners after its top executive, Clive Gillinson. Their annual compensation ranged from Mr. O’Connell’s $422,599 (with an additional $107,445 in benefits and deferred compensation) to Mr. Goodson’s $327,257 (with $76,459 in benefits and deferred compensation), the return showed.
Fake Steve Jobs had this up on his site yesterday. Nice work by the kiddies at UQAM. Perfect for a Friday.
Terry Durack gets it about right re the current state of Sydney dining and cuisine…
My brother Tom says the dust storm today on the East coast of Australia reminds him of a Midnight Oils lyric (“cue the emus”):
When the spinifex hit Sydney, it was the last thing we expected
When the desert came to Gladesville, we tried to tame it
And when the emus grazed at Pyrmont, it suddenly dawned on us all
Hah, finally the world was silent and the door was shut
Photo below stolen from the Sydney Morning Herald’s site.
Catching up on the New Yorker now that we’re back in the US. Bruce Western pointed me to a recent David Sedaris take on Australia.
For an American, though, Australia seems pretty familiar: same wide streets, same office towers. It’s Canada in a thong, or that’s the initial impression.
The SMH/Brisbanetimes.com.au reports on the untimely death of a young Queenslander named Jason Scorer (for real). Apparently, Jason Scorer got shit-faced in Rome on a back-packers, pub crawl tour and wound up drowning in the Tiber.
The article is precious. The organizer of the tour said that “he believed the death, which happened after the pub crawl finished, was an accident.” Nice qualification re the timing: do put some distance between your organized piss-up and the death of a skylarking “very, very drunk” 20 year old.
But the article ends with the observation:
Italy has been scrambling to tackle a growing binge-drinking problem. A government study said two-thirds of teens between 13 and 15 drink to excess, with the number of diagnosed alcoholics tripling in the past decade to 60,000 out of 60 million.
Thats right. If Australians binge-drink in Italy, skylark and die, it is Italy’s binge-drinking problem you write about.
People who are regularly bombarded with several streams of electronic information do not pay attention, control their memory or switch from one job to another as well as those who prefer to complete one task at a time, a group of Stanford researchers has found.
I’m editing proofs for my book right now too, and based on an average of about 3 typos per page, I’d have to say I agree with, um, whatever I was reading before the phone/iTunes/vodcast/e-mail/iChat thing popped up.
Taos, New Mexico, isn’t the only place to get a beautiful sunset on a regular basis.
Sydney got a winter storm late in the day yesterday (Friday), which then cleared in time for the sunset to light up the underside of the storm heading offshore. Cue pink light, high contrasts between shadow and buildings and sky, and a horizon-to-horizon rainbow in the eastern sky. Also cue a small legion of photographers trying to capture the magic.
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