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.

The Q Word, Fox Style

Thank goodness for the high art of snarkiness practiced by Lisa de Moraes in the Washington Post. Her take on the latest high brow programming from Fox: Fox Puts Foot in Its Mouth, Kicks Self By Lisa de Moraes Friday  [more...]

On the Board

Perfect Pictures

While I’m pulling photos off my phone, let’s take a look at this week’s oddities that I felt interesting enough to warrant pulling the phone out of my pocket. Commingled materials? Isn’t that  [more...]

Picture perfect evening

Before the general public came in, I stared at the grandeur of the beautifully restored AFI Silver Theatre in Silver Spring, Maryland. It’s streamlined interior (left) seemed too grand a setting for what was to  [more...]

Picture show

Congress saw more photos yesterday of prison abuses in Iraq. By some accounts, there were over a thousand images. There certainly were hundreds. Here’s my question: if a few renegade soldiers were responsible  [more...]

W is for “What the fu…”

After all this administration has done to set back women’s rights — from health care to reproductive choice — they have the gall to do this: A new project of the Bush-Cheney campaign, “W Stands  [more...]