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Thirty years ago tonight, New York City lost electricity when a Con Ed substation was hit by lightning strikes and a "cascading effect" caused the system to shut down around 9PM. And NYC, as well as parts of Westchester County, were powerless for over a day in the sweltering heart of the summer. Subways were stuck, mobs set fires and stores were looted.

- Tonight at Shea Stadium (assuming these apocalyptic thunderstorms stop), Good Morning America Weekend Edition anchor Kate Snow will be selling cotton candy to the masses as the Mets face the Astros. Her stint as a vendor is part of GMA's Summer Dream Jobs segment (or something like that) where anchors do various jobs unrelated to reading stuff off a teleprompter. Could they not give her a slightly harder job? When you sell cotton candy, you barely have to walk anywhere, all the kids go right up to you.

The WSJWE has landed. People have been rumbling about it for months now. Dow Jones employees have been upset about the extra hours and extra employees it requires. The New York Times has been reorganizing itself to make way for its arrival (can't you hear the Grey Lady thinking "hmmm, why don't I move Maureen to Saturday, then they'll buy us too. And Times Select, let's do that the same weekend, that'll steal their thunder."). And now today it's here. The Wall Street Journal Weekend Edition has its first edition this weekend and it is, on first inspection... eh. To be fair though, we're not generally Journal readers and there are a few interesting pieces in the paper (the Pearl Jam chef who has been helping tsunami victims, the companies who outsource their company sports leagues) but still. The big new section, "Pursuits," seems like any other lifestyle section to us (which might be nice for other people, but we're just sick to death of lifestyle sections). Further, we'll be curious to see how many of the advertisers bulking up this first edition will still be around in two weeks (our guess, about half). But again, we're just not Journal people. What about you, did you pick up the weekend edition? What did you think of it?