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I promise that my gastronomical excursions became more exciting as the week wore on, so bear with me.

One has to read the words of a media analyst to find realistic expectations. Journalists and bloggers speak in doom-and-gloom absolutes (e.g., "the CD is dead," "record labels are dead"). Today EMI announced it would chop about one-third of its workforce. Yesterday, Jupiter's Mark Mulligan had an industry health check on the eve of EMI's restructuring announcement.

I was feeling a little crazy last night and decided to make some polenta. I say crazy because as those of you who've prepared it before know, it can be a little dangerous.

Washington Post media writer Howard Kurtz says the mushrooming number of political blogs on newspaper and magazine web sites “has altered the terrain of the 2008 election.”