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.

Five gay guys gang up on one straight guy

Coming this July on Bravo, “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy,” wherein five gay guys make over a straight guy. This should be amusing. I wonder if they could make over a gay guy? I could use it. (Bravo will  [more...]

On the Board

Gerard Depardieu, you’re next

[Via boingboing] The group Reporters Without Borders reports that six French journalists who arrived in Los Angeles to cover a video game convention were detained, searched, fingerprinted, handcuffed, and locked up for  [more...]

More fuzzy numbers

Two little snippets I heard on the radio this afternoon on PRI’s The World: Dubya, who so recently boasted that al Queda was decimated, today said, and I quote, “nearly one half of al Queda senior operatives  [more...]

And another one bites the dust

Is the ship sinking, or did Bush err in not surrounding himself with enough toadying morons? Today, Christine Todd Whitman announced her resignation as the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, a misnomer in the  [more...]

Jingle Hell

All morning, I’ve had a jingle running constantly through my head. You young people may not realize this, but there was a time when you couldn’t own a phone. The phones in your house were leased to you by  [more...]