"I am supposed to take his silly whacks? I don't think so," she wrote on GretaWire. "I don't take his criticism personally - frankly I am on TV, he isn't. You know ... those who can, do ... those who can't, are TV critics."
Was it more fun being a TV reviewer before reviewees got their own blogs?
"Call me strange, but I actually enjoy the give and take of doing criticism on the blogosphere - even with people like Greta Van Susteren," Zurawik said.
Yikes! I'm staying out of this one.
History, civic awareness in a cartoon map
Baltimore cartoonist Tom Chalkley teaches his art at Hopkins, has made The New Yorker twice and early this year had one of his political caricatures featured in a Super Bowl ad for Coke. Now he's achieved something else: creating a poster-sized cartoon map of the city.
"This is a work of personal OCD but, I hope, a popular item with Balto-philes this holiday season, and something parents can use to teach kids history and civic awareness," he writes in an e-mail.
"This is a big 2-foot by 3-foot, full-color poster featuring caricatures of about 150 famous, infamous, and oughta-be famous Baltimoreans - from Charles Carroll and Frederick Douglass to Sisqo and Michael Phelps, from H.L. Mencken to Mother Mary Lange, founder of the Oblate Sisterhood, Wild Bill Hagy to Big Jim Staton. Deciding whom to include has been an interesting and slightly agonizing process. ... The city itself is caricatured - about 30 landmarks and a grossly compressed street grid."
He'll be autographing and selling them from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. tomorrow at Hometown Girl in Hampden.
"It could get some interesting discussions and arguments started," he wrote. "I already hear choruses of, 'You left so-and-so out.' I left out several of my own favorites, too."
Connect the dots
