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

On the Board

Fun Stuff

Them folks in Kentucky is smart

Via Fark: Kentucky has found a new way to drive sales of commemorative license plates: create a standard license plate so annoyingly stupid that everyone will pay extra to avoid it. The standard Kentucky plate includes  [more...]

July 28, 2003
Fun Stuff

From the vault to your heart

I wanted to post something up here about Bob Hope, but figured that the entire world was going to be over-using the phrase “Thanks for the Memory” today. If you’d like to hear the entire song in  [more...]

July 28, 2003
Right = Wrong

Word play, Clinton-style

Boy, oh boy. The Bush administration has taken the Clintonian art for parsing and technicality to an entirely new level. Neocon war monger Paul Wolfowitz is still trumpeting that line about Iraq being the bedfellow of  [more...]

July 28, 2003
Life... Don't talk to me about life.

A eulogy for Futurama

AP television writer Frazier Moore has written an excellent review/eulogy for my fave, Futurama. Unfortunately, the show airs its final episode on August 10. I wish that kudos such as this had appeared long ago…  [more...]

July 26, 2003
Right = Wrong

The fight in Texas, round II

The Democrats prevailed again in Austin during the second attempt by the Republicans to carve up the state into bizarre districts designed to create a Republican stronghold in Congress: A White House-backed power play  [more...]

July 26, 2003