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.

Banking on gravitational pull

What is with CBS? Their target demographic these days seems to be The Fat Man. Yet another show will debut tonight on the black eye network which centers around an enormous man — the huge John Goodman — who  [more...]

On the Board

Out of warranty

There is a phenomenon that occurs when electronics go out of warranty. It used to never happen with Apple products, but now… My Powerbook is one year and a couple weeks old. The latch is now beginning to fail  [more...]

Factcheckers, unite

Wow — it’s about time for a whole new respect for the factcheckers of the world, and the hope that they begin to have more of a voice. This campaign has been such a vast minefield of outright lies that the  [more...]

Patriots

Wow. Terry Kevin posts up a list (one of those e-mail memes going around) of outspoken politicians and pundits who have — and haven’t — served in the military. I think you’ll be surprised…  [more...]

Was he on target?

You know the senator who closed his office last week? There’s a very interesting piece of trivia attached to him: his family started Target. Sen. Mark Dayton’s (D, MN) grandfather, George Dayton, owned a dry  [more...]

Please fasten your seat belts

I just report, you decide. Speaking of Cheney, there’s some great news for him from the Department of Transportation. Despite these tight budgetary times, the federal government has awarded a $2,065,000 grant to  [more...]