New York, New York

This week's New York magazine has a lot of great content, including a page chronicling the Yankees' pie-in-the-face walkoff hits this year. (Nice picture of Nick Swisher covered in pie; not available online.)

Also, there's an interesting piece on how Michael Moore's latest documentary makes him look like a Bible thumper, which no one would have expected yet is a surprisingly accurate connection.

My favorite piece, though, was this article on how much Eli Manning makes, and not just because it's frank about him not being worth the biggest quarterback salary in the NFL. This is the most entertaining, enlightening piece I've ever read on sports salaries, and it's not from a sports magazine, Web site, or newspaper. It's full of information that all sports fans should know, which may be why it hasn't been covered so well. But if sports writers would write about complex issues such as salaries in such a quick, easy way, it would make a great article (they could do it in so many ways, too: breaking down the highest-paid player per team, guaranteed money per team, etc.). This is the kind of article casual sports fans love to read, because they would never want to admit they don't know a lot about salaries and such, yet they would love to know more (without others knowing they didn't know) and find out in such a fun way.

Oh, and it looks like Eli Manning is wearing makeup in that photo.

Finally, the Carrie Fisher profile this week was superb. I've read quite a few profiles on her ever since her play, "Wishful Drinking," came out, which is why I may have like it so much from the start, but the writer does a really good job of capturing a much-caricatured person in an easy, entertaining, and enlightening way. Warning, though: If you know nothing about Fisher, her life is sort of a mess.