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.

Can’t wait for their spin on this

This is a laugh-out-loud one: FOREST, Ohio — A guest evangelist was preaching at the First Baptist Church in a small Hardin County town Tuesday night, emphasizing penance and asking for a sign from God. At that  [more...]

On the Board

Images in air

Back in January I posted an observation about some new kind of display that was being used on ABC’s World News Tonight. It was a clear sheet of glass onto which video was somehow projected – I saw it for a  [more...]

Are people REALLY this uninformed?

WASHINGTON (AP) – Seven in 10 people in a poll say the Bush administration implied that Iraq and its leader Saddam Hussein were involved in the Sept. 11 attacks against the United States. And a majority, 52  [more...]

Poke ‘em with a stick, why dontcha?

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Bush (news – web sites) had a tough message on Wednesday for Iraqi militants attacking U.S. troops — “Bring them on” — and said the U.S. military  [more...]

Moving Type

A wonderful David Broder op-ed piece in today’s Post tells of the Declaration of Independence – not the later one that was painstakingly calligraphed and now resides in the National Archive, but the typeset  [more...]