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.

48 Hours

This should be fun – next weekend I’ll be part of a team headed by my friend Jon entered in the 48 Hour Film Project, a competition of sorts that requires the writing, filming, and production of a short film  [more...]

On the Board

Material Girl

Madonna’s website was hacked this weekend by someone pissed-off by her release of MP3 files to sharing networks. The MP3s were disguised as tracks from her new album, but consisted only of her intoning “What  [more...]

“Feeling lucky?”

The Internet is a strange and fierce bitch master. I got an e-mail from an interior designer that I had listed on my “cuties” list, who informed me that when searching for his name on search engines, it was  [more...]

I think he’s more of a legume

And just one more: a quote published in Lloyd Grove’s Post column today: “A religious nut occupies [the attorney general’s] office.” — Historian and former John F. Kennedy aide Arthur M  [more...]

Speak up, Senators

Another member of Congress has opened wide and put his foot right in his mouth. This time, following the verbal examples of Trent Lott and Jim Moran, Rick Santorum has spouted off about his opinion of the Supreme Court  [more...]