Just As I Thought
Fun Stuff

Portrait of the Artist

Ah, that day when my friends Sara and Lance and I went to the Hirshhorn gallery to see the Laurie Anderson exhibit, and turned around to discover that we were being followed by… Laurie Anderson.

April 24, 2023
Life... Don't talk to me about life.

The more you know

When last we looked in on the life of Squeaker the cat, it was evident that he had been cat-napped by some unknown party, subjected to stitches at the vet, and returned to his home without any notice or explanation  [more...]

December 12, 2004

On the Board

Right = Wrong

A caring society

Here’s number 5,482 in the list of things that annoy me: spurious “caring.” I hate it when tragic events or circumstances are ingeniously transformed into marketable logos and products. It just  [more...]

December 12, 2004
Right = Wrong

Shift, shift, shift

The Bush administration — which for the last four years has never admitted to doing anything wrong — continues this trend by finding scapegoats on which to blame their failures and mistakes. First off  [more...]

December 12, 2004
Fun Stuff

No thank you, sir

Wondering what in the hell that last ringtone was? It’s a song from one of my favorite movies, Ja Zuster Nee Zuster — a wild, funny, wacky Dutch musical. You can see the U.S. trailer here, and the official U  [more...]

December 11, 2004
Life... Don't talk to me about life.

Delayed reaction

To all the people who have called me on the telephone today: I’m sorry I didn’t answer. The luxury of the telephone is that you don’t have to pick it up when it rings. I just don’t want to talk  [more...]

December 11, 2004