UPDATE: Now with video of Supercute! performing Not To Write About Boys

UPDATE:New York Magazine‘s Vulture Blog covered the event, and presents this exchange out of context:

Camin: I was in Paris. I just hop on the Concorde and go.

Rudd: Let me ask you … has it been an inconvenience at all that they’ve grounded all Concorde flights for something like ten years?

Camin: Well, I fly out of Teterboro.

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Joel Chasnoff graduated from university and entered into a career as a stand-up comic. The proceeding life of living in a basement apartment in Brooklyn and facing rejection from audiences was not what he had envisioned. So he enlisted in the Israeli army. The Jewish Daily Forward reports:

But from the moment Chasnoff signs up, he has fallen through the rabbit hole. During one interaction with a man at a dog tag machine, Chasnoff laments: “Hey, I think you misspelled my name.”

“So don’t die,” the man says, and shoos him out the door.

Chasnoff is 24 when he enlists, but his peers in the Armored Tank Brigade are 18. The difference in their maturity is a Grand Canyon-sized chasm, aggravated by the fact that Chasnoff has joined the Israeli military out of conviction, unlike his peers, who are there because of conscription.

Chasnoff has written a book, The 188th Crybaby Brigade: A Skinny Jewish Kid From Chicago Fights Hezbollah, which documents his his time in the army; The Jewish Week has a well written review.

On Apr 19, Joel Chasnoff and Anthony Swofford (Jarhead: A Marine’s Chronicle of the Gulf War), with editor at large of Esquire magazine A. J. Jacobs as moderator, will discuss the sick—and, at times, disturbingly hilarious—culture of modern war, from the psyche of the American marine to the Israeli mission in Lebanon.

Upcoming talks at 92Y:

Another Social Media Week is winding down; Blackweb 2.0 and Mashable have posted full recaps of the Mashable NextUp NYC: The Future Journalist panel at 92YTribeca on Wednesday.

The gist of the talk was how to remain relevant in a rapidly changing world of journalism. Mashable quotes Joshua Micah Marshall, founder of Talking Points Memo, who astutely noted: “It’s the people who are entering the profession right now that are going to create the editorial models, the publishing models, the business models, that define journalism in the 21st century.”

Sprouting up like weeds on a local level, you can see professional and polished examples of the models Marshall describes, with websites like Northampton Media in Western Ma and the New Haven Independent in Conn., operated not by newspapers but by individual “future journalists,” quickly and successfully moving into the vacuum created by traditional local news outlets unwilling or unable provide the content desired by local communities.

Ideas and tips discussed on the panel included becoming digitally-oriented and building a trusted presence online. The importance of business acumen was highlighted, being a voracious consumer of media, as well as using social media:

Being on deadline or in crisis mode is not the time to try and figure out new technology. When the plane lands in the Hudson, it’s too late to figure out Twitter. When your company starts layoffs, it’s too late to figure out LinkedIn. Start carving out time to learn new concepts and tools.

Upcoming talks at 92YTribeca:

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