Just As I Thought

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.

Ed Meese would be proud

Oh, boy — the next four years are going to be a playground of amusements now that the “moralists” among us wish to impose their fascist views of what “values” consist of. Here’s the  [more...]

On the Board

A Long Illness

Frank Meeks, who owned the Domino’s pizza franchise here in the Washington metro area, has died. Meeks got a lot of praise as the best Domino’s owner in the country, but his politics (and crappy pizza) means  [more...]

Fly the dangerous skies

As devotees of “Lost” know, Oceanic airlines is the carrier to avoid. Now tonight, on the disaster miniseries “Category 6” on CBS, an airliner marked “Oceanic” is hit by lightning  [more...]

Five, seven, five

The Museum of Hoaxes website is running a little contest for readers: create a haiku about a hoax to win a book. The haikus are hilarious: sandwich of ham, cold, its journey interrupted, mama cass is full coke and pop  [more...]

God Loves Fags

The recent Washington Post series about a gay youth in Oklahoma has a follow-up today, telling of the aftermath of the original story: The fliers arrived three weeks ago. Some came over the fax machines of local  [more...]