1. QUOTE from:
    Balloon Boy Takes Flight
    View quote in context »
    The star reveals: ‘Rubber-based products got me where I am today!’” Vanity Fair: "Ladies Who Latex! Hollywood’s Hottest Young Stars Gather for Balloon-Inspired Debauchery at the Waverly Inn, as Graydon Carter Leers Watches. (Inside: A Photo Essay of the Event, Shot by Annie Leibovitz in Exchange for a $25 Dunkin’ Donuts Coupon.)" Vogue: “Balloons, in Colors That Pop! Full Article at Columbia Journalism Review
    Ladies Who Latex! Hollywood’s Hottest Young Stars Gather for Balloon-Inspired Debauchery at the Waverly Inn, as Graydon Carter Leers Watches. (Inside: A Photo Essay of the Event, Shot by Annie Leibovitz in Exchange for a $25 Dunkin’ Donuts Coupon.)
    SOURCE: Columbia Journalism Review 1 month ago
All quotes from:
Balloon Boy Takes Flight
  1. Balloons We Love! Ten of the hottest blow-ups in the biz.
    SOURCE: Columbia Journalism Review 1 month ago
  2. Balloons and Socialism: What Americans Need to Know to Keep Their Tax Dollars Safe from Pelosi and Company
    SOURCE: Columbia Journalism Review 1 month ago
  3. POWER OF INFLATION: A Drily Droll and Acerbically Authoritative Account of the Economics of U.S. Hegemony—An Account, If We May Be So Bold, Which One Had Better Read Whilst the Account Remains Fresh So That One Will Not Provoke the Ridicule of One’s Network of Highly Educated Coastal Elites Which One Ca...
    SOURCE: Columbia Journalism Review 1 month ago
  4. BALLOONS OVER MY HAMMY: The pancake, egg, and sausage breakfast that keeps Balloon Boy fueled for his journeys
    SOURCE: Columbia Journalism Review 1 month ago
  5. Balloons, in Colors That Pop! How to wear the fall’s hottest accessory.
    SOURCE: Columbia Journalism Review 1 month ago
  6. TO BALLOON AND BACK: Lady Gaga describes her harrowing battle with balloonexia. The star reveals: ‘Rubber-based products got me where I am today!’
    SOURCE: Columbia Journalism Review 1 month ago
  7. Being a parent is the ultimate storm!
    SOURCE: Columbia Journalism Review 1 month ago
  8. BALLOONS AND ANDREW JACKSON: Pulitzer winner Jon Meacham, who recently won a Pulitzer Prize, explores the connection between two touchpoints of American Democracy—balloons, and our seventh president—in a manner pleasing to fellow Pulitzer winners.
    SOURCE: Columbia Journalism Review 1 month ago
  9. Haha, we know you’re only opening this to see what kind of crap-ass booze they’re serving on this flight (yeah, hope you like Stoli, asshole), so we can pretty much write anything we want on this thing and no one will even know. Ha! So enjoy your flight, jackass—hope some snot-nosed kid didn’t ralph in ...
    SOURCE: Columbia Journalism Review 1 month ago

Recent Photos From The Wire

  1. European Monetary Affairs Commissioner Joaquin Almunia (L) talks with European Investment Bank (EIB) President Philippe Maystadt (R) at the start of a EU finance ministers meeting at the EU Council in Brussels December 2, 2009.
  2. Steam billows from the cooling towers of a coal power plant in the western town of Neurath December 2, 2009. Most world leaders plan to attend a climate summit in Copenhagen December 7-18, boosting chances that a new U.N. deal to fight climate change will be reached, host Denmark said on Tuesday.
  3. Spanish Finance Minister Elena Salgado (R) talks with French counterpart Christine Lagarde (L) at the start of a EU finance ministers meeting at the EU Council in Brussels December 2, 2009.
  4. Muntazer al-Zaidi listens during a news conference in Paris just before a shoe was thrown at him December 1, 2009 in this video grab obtained December 2, 2009. Zaidi, an Iraqi reporter imprisoned for throwing his shoes at U.S. President George W. Bush, found himself on the receiving end of a similar footwear attack in Paris on Tuesday. French media said the attacker was an exiled Iraqi journalist who spoke in defence of U.S. policy, accusing Zaidi of siding with a dictatorship, before throwing his shoe.
  5. The chalet of film director Roman Polanski in Gstaad, Switzerland, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2009. Justice Ministry said on Monday, Polanski was expected to transfer the full bail in the next couple of days and will be in jail until at least Friday.
  6. The chalet is seen of film director Roman Polanski in Gstaad, Switzerland, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2009. Justice Ministry said on Monday, Polanski was expected to transfer the full bail in the next couple of days and will be in jail until at least Friday.
  7. Steam billows from the cooling towers of a coal power plant in the western town of Neurath December 2, 2009. Most world leaders plan to attend a climate summit in Copenhagen December 7-18, boosting chances that a new U.N. deal to fight climate change will be reached, host Denmark said on Tuesday.
  8. Sri Lanka's Tillakaratne Dilshan plays a shot on the first day of the third test cricket match against India in Mumbai December 2, 2009.
  9. MUNICH, GERMANY - DECEMBER 02: Protestors are reflected in the window of a coffee shop on December 2, 2009 in Munich, Germany. Employees of German industrial group Siemens AG demonstrated against the company's job policy.
  10. LONDON, ENGLAND - DECEMBER 02: Foreign Secretary David Miliband walks from The Foreign Office to Parliament on December 2, 2009 in London. Five British sailors have been released after being held by Iran's Revolutionary Guard for a week.
  11. MUNICH, GERMANY - DECEMBER 02: Protestors hold a banner on December 2, 2009 in Munich, Germany. Employees of German industrial group Siemens AG demonstrated against the company's job policy.
  12. MUNICH, GERMANY - DECEMBER 02: Protestors shout slogans on December 2, 2009 in Munich, Germany. Employees of German industrial group Siemens AG demonstrated against the company's job policy.
  13. MUNICH, GERMANY - DECEMBER 02: Protestors hold banners on December 2, 2009 in Munich, Germany. Employees of German industrial group Siemens AG demonstrated against the company's job policy.
  14. MUNICH, GERMANY - DECEMBER 02: Protestors hold banners on December 2, 2009 in Munich, Germany. Employees of German industrial group Siemens AG demonstrated against the company's job policy.
  15. A man sits and watches President Barack Obama's speech on TV sets at a Yamada Denki electric appliance store in Tokyo, Japan, Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2009. Obama announced he would deepen the U.S. involvement in Afghanistan, sending 30,000 more troops to fight the Taliban despite Americans' growing pessimism about the war.
  16. A woman holds her child, born mentally and physically challenged, during a physiotherapy session in Bhopal, India, Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2009. The Bhopal industrial disaster killed about 4,000 people on Dec. 3, 1984. A quarter-century later, thousands are still grappling with the affects of exposure to the deadly gas as it winds its way through generations not even born when the disaster struck.
  17. A walker makes her way through fresh snow on the Schauinsland mountain in the Black Forest region of southern Germany, Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2009.
  18. Chinese eats burgers at a newly opened Burger King restaurant in Beijing, China, Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2009. John W. Chidsey, chairman and chief executive officer of Burger King Holding Inc. opened his 12,000th restaurant on Wednesday, in Beijing.