Just As I Thought
Fun Stuff

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.

April 24, 2023
General Annoyances

Out of context

It’s scary how certain words come together in a search — someone searched for “cbs news 21 april 2004 crash photos princess diana” on some search engine, and ended up here: my site came up as the  [more...]

April 22, 2004

On the Board

Fun Stuff

Cook on CNN for 5 minutes, then rotate 1/4 turn

Last weekend I was at a local studio doing some test filming for an upcoming film project. Outside the rear doors of the studio was an enormous microwave satellite dish. Directly below the dish, looking for all the  [more...]

April 22, 2004
Right = Wrong

We can swim, Randall

Sometimes I find the right wing fundamentalist comments gut-wrenchingly hilarious. Like this one from Randall Terry, the hate-filled leader of “Operation Witness” — you know, that gang of obnoxious  [more...]

April 22, 2004
Life... Don't talk to me about life.

Mary McGrory

I always loved Mary McGrory’s writing in the Washington Post, especially her clever ways of skewering pomposity and the billowing hot air from the right. Mary died last night at 85, and her obituary in the  [more...]

April 22, 2004
Right = Wrong

Cleaning up the mess

An interesting column on some of the hurdles Kerry might face as president includes this provocative idea: that Republicans leave huge deficits for incoming Democrats in order to prevent them from implementing programs:  [more...]

April 21, 2004