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.

On the Board

Straight shooters

Don’t you love the way the members of the current administration have with words? How about this amusement from Dana Milbank in this morning’s Washington Post: President Bush’s secretary of veterans  [more...]

NPR is starting to lean

I’ve often argued that NPR is not as lefty as the right-wing would have us believe. I tend to find NPR’s coverage pretty much balanced, sometimes to the point where I think they lean a bit right. I certainly  [more...]

A modern Stonehenge

Two times a year, May 28 and July 12, the sun lines up in such a way that the sun appears to set on the center line of every street in Manhattan. Today’s NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day shows what it’s  [more...]

And make them wear a triangle

One thing that has really burned me for years is the fact that I can’t donate blood. The Red Cross, in it’s bigoted wisdom, assumes that any gay man must automatically have AIDS, and therefore refuses blood  [more...]

And the winner is… us!

Yup, one year to the day after my filmmaking team didn’t win, the tide has turned… I just found out that our 48 Hour Film Project entry for this year has won the coveted Audience Award! This means that of  [more...]