Friday, January 02, 2009

My very short list: All I still want for Christmas

Please keep the following in mind when you're shopping for that someone special -- i.e., yours truly:
  • Size 135: Names of interesting tenants (the chattier, the better) living at the Newseum Residences in Washington, D.C. These luxury rental apartments are part of the $450 million Newseum complex opened last April by the private Freedom Forum charitable foundation. They rent for up to $6,510 a month for a two-bed, two-bath. With prices that high, do you think anyone gets really, really, really special discounts?
  • E-mail and letters sent to me directly by any of the 25 or so Newseum employees who left the museum about news in a series of buyouts announced last month. Should your missives be of the bulky kind (i.e., large envelopes), please note my snail-mail address: Jim Hopkins, Gannett Blog, 584 Castro St., #823, San Francisco, CA 94114-2594.
Memo from the Law Department!
Between puffs, Gannett Blog General Counsel Selma Bouvier cautions: "This is not an attempt to talk you into violating any non-disclosure agreement you may have been forced to sign by this free-speech foundation, just so you could get your severance."

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5 comments:

  1. Selma is no Patty. I'm just sayin'.

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  2. http://www.grissogroup.com/

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  4. 5:21 am: Do. Not. Go. There.

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  5. Why don't you take up a collection to rent/lease one of the rooms for a day/week/month.. will they let you do that?

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