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The Smoking Room

By jelewis8 ⋅ February 15, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Fringe redesigned Washington DC journalist Greg Piper’s bi-coastal political blog to match the quirky name and feel of intimacy of the original site. Utilizing a backend Movable Type blog CMS, The Smoking Room offers comments, trackbacks, and of course, Greg’s snarky charm.

Welcome Democracy

By jelewis8 ⋅ January 30, 2005 ⋅ 2 comments

This is an historic day, of course. Just because it sounds trite doesn’t mean that it shouldn’t be said. Today is historic for a lot of reasons, most of which you probably won’t find in your copy of the New York Times. Though the mainstream media isn’t making a huge deal of it, Iraqi democratic [...]

“I was in a cheerleading squad…”

By jelewis8 ⋅ January 27, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Greg Piper is guest blogging for the next three days at Joe Gandelman’s The Moderate Voice, the (un)lucky stiff. He’ll be posting a few items at The Smoking Room, but most of his stuff will be over at TMV. Go give him some lovin’. And Greg, don’t you know that’s going to cut down on [...]

No Smoking Here

By jelewis8 ⋅ January 9, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Greg Piper’s site was down for several hours. I experienced my first “Piper Diaper” moment–when I tried to visit his site and was given the boot. Talk about panic! I nearly soiled my shorts when the next best thing, Fringe, decided not to work, but then I realized it was just my network connection. Reset, [...]

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