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.

Brought to you by…

It’s been a while since I quoted the Style Invitational, but today’s contest was just too good to pass up. Entrants were asked to insert a product placement into biblical or other literary passages…  [more...]

On the Board

Acceptance

The Washington Post is running a series on gay teens starting in tomorrow’s issue. It’s sad reading about Michael Shackelford, a teen in Oklahoma who’s vision of being gay includes: “Being gay  [more...]

Among my souvenirs

Among the Betamax tapes I dug out this morning are: The first episode of “Moonlighting” with Cybil Shepard and Bruce Willis ALF hosting “The Tonight Show” An episode of “Grand” [View  [more...]

Dredging up the past

I dragged out my old SuperBeta Hi-Fi deck last night, figuring that the time was ripe to digitize all those old Beta tapes to DVD. Amongst the old tapes of St. Elsewhere, Star Trek: The Next Generation, porn, and  [more...]

Someone will have to pay

And the pre-planned farce plays out: Congress voted to extend the Bush tax cuts — how could they not? They were engineered to require reauthorization in an election year. And who wants to vote against a tax cut in  [more...]

Say anything

The thing that just strains my cranial blood vessels more than anything else these days is the way the Bush camp feels free to lie and mislead — about weapons of mass destruction, about reasons to send young men  [more...]