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
Fun Stuff

An entry from the future

This week’s Style Invitational invited entries from the year 2032, the next time that Leap Day falls on a Sunday: Second runner-up: Lead news story of Feb. 29, 2032: Hundreds Dead in Segway Pileup (Art Grinath  [more...]

February 29, 2004

On the Board

Right = Wrong

In Washington, Don’t Tell

A wonderful essay this morning by Sally Quinn makes some good points about how difficult it is for Washington to make a move on social issues. Being a political town, it’s impossible here to admit what you really  [more...]

February 29, 2004
Right = Wrong

Conspiracy theory #72

Hmmm. If I were a conspiracy theorist, I’d wonder about this article, considering other rumors that surfaced this week: President Bush has approved a plan to intensify the effort to capture or kill Osama bin  [more...]

February 29, 2004
Right = Wrong

Maybe they should read the vows

You know, I’m reading a wonderful article about Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon, the two pioneering women who were the first to marry in San Francisco, and near the end there’s a segment describing a wedding  [more...]

February 29, 2004
Life... Don't talk to me about life.

Not a pretty day

It’s in the 60s here in Washington, and I took a little time to go out back and hang a hummingbird feeder, just in anticipation of the warm months when I can look out of my kitchen window and see the birds. Then  [more...]

February 28, 2004
General Annoyances

He could have waited for the DVD

The syndicated entertainment news show “Access Hollywood” put a surprised Mel Gibson on the phone with Arch Bonnema, the Plano, Texas, man who purchased 6,000 tickets at a price of $42,000 to Gibson’s  [more...]

February 28, 2004