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
Right = Wrong

They can afford the fines

The Republicans have made a campaign strategy out of pointing the finger of campaign finance at the Democrats; but they are still the ones being fined for their illegal campaign spending activities, yet again: Democrats  [more...]

April 21, 2004

On the Board

Right = Wrong

Not new, not surprising

I’d blog this morning about the Pentagon excising some of Donald Rumsfeld’s words in a transcript of a discussion with Bob Woodward about the planning for war (even though the quotes have already appeared in  [more...]

April 21, 2004
Fun Stuff

Both Worlds

There’s a strange underground culture of PC users: they want their PCs to be Macs. But here’s the topper — one of them is the Microsoft Director of Windows Evangelism (itself an Apple term, remember  [more...]

April 21, 2004
Fun Stuff

Soup, art. Art, soup.

The Campbell Soup Company is producing limited edition soup cans inspired, in a fit of recursion, by the Andy Warhol Campbell’s Soup paintings: Starting tomorrow, these limited-edition designs will be available at  [more...]

April 20, 2004
Right = Wrong

And yet they’re raising huge sums of money

Just about everything the Bush administration does is calculated to the nth degree of politics, and thus the taxpayer is footing the bill for his campaign. Up until now, there’s been plausible explanations —  [more...]

April 20, 2004
Life... Don't talk to me about life.

Busy

You know, usually my life consists of going to work, getting in a good… oh, 5 hours or so in the office, then coming home and vegetating. Not lately, though. In fact, the next month is wacky and fun-filled  [more...]

April 20, 2004