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

The Sound of Silence

From Ananova: The BBC is to broadcast a live radio performance of an orchestra playing four-and-a-half minutes of silence. John Cage’s seminal work 4’33” will be the highlight of a concert on Radio 3  [more...]

January 12, 2004

On the Board

General Annoyances

The bells, the bells

All day today, my cell phone has been ringing like crazy — someone is faxing me over and over and over, obviously to the wrong number. They did this once before, in July. This time, the offending numbers are (202)  [more...]

January 12, 2004
Right = Wrong

The West West Wing

Heck, they should just open it up to the public again — the President is rarely there. Evidently, he’s spent 200 days of his term in Crawford, Texas (clearing brush… there’s an awful lot of dead  [more...]

January 12, 2004
Life... Don't talk to me about life.

Indian Irony

According to tonight’s edition of 60 Minutes, at least 19 U.S. states are outsourcing welfare benefits calls to… India. Um… what about giving the welfare recipients those jobs? In contrast to the story  [more...]

January 11, 2004
Right = Wrong

An institution in danger from within

There’s a great op-ed in today’s Washington Post by Ellen Goodman — she points out the hypocrisy of those freaked-out right-wingers who claim that same-sex unions will somehow destroy marriage: Who  [more...]

January 10, 2004
The War with the Customer

Microsoft calls kettle black

Microsoft, in comments about the new Apple-HP deal to sell co-branded iPods, had this to say: Thursday the company appeared unprepared for the Apple-Hewlett agreement, which clearly stung Microsoft executives. They said  [more...]

January 10, 2004