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

When all else fails, use logic

Via Fark: A city in Texas is facing a referendum on liquor sales by a religious group. In the article, the pastor who is leading the charge more or less admitted what we all know already: the Bible has no basis in  [more...]

Buck is in the house

And while I’m on a kinky bent this morning, how about this: create your alter-ego at the Porn Name Generator!
Y’all can call me Buck Steele.

What’s In A Name Episode Two

A postscript to my posting last week about the long-promotional-special interest-station names on the Metro: today an article appeared in the Washington Post addressing this. It turns out that Metro has now approved  [more...]

Some anniversary this turned out to be

Today’s the universally accepted anniversary of Macintosh — 20 years ago, the computer for the rest of us was introduced, launching the graphic user interface and the mouse to the general public. (The GUI  [more...]