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.

If I wasn’t invited, I don’t care

I check Google’s brilliant new news page a couple times each day. It’s put together by algorithms which, I assume, take into account such factors as the popularity of news searches. So, I’m a bit  [more...]

On the Board

Vanity or sanity

Someone explain this to me: I am 36 years old, but no one ever guesses. I’ve spent my 30s looking like I was in my 20s. So why is it that in the last two weeks, I have sprouted a veritable garden of gray hairs  [more...]

Tonight on a very special “Blossom”

“Operation Iraqi Freedom – Target: Iraq – A Special Edition of NBC Nightly News.” There was another tagline in there somewhere that I forgot. Now, is it just me, or does this sound like one of  [more...]

Compassion for the top 1 percent

The latest from Molly Ivins: And of course we are all happy to learn that the Bush administration plans to provide universal health care and massive school construction for postwar Iraq, while simultaneously cutting  [more...]

CERTainly

It’s official – I have my certificate and everything. Today was the final class and drill for my CERT training. Easy: fire supression, triage. Not so easy: medical ops and search and rescue. It’s kind  [more...]

Operation Photoshop Freedom

Laughing so hard at this I need a pair of Depends: what screen shots of Fox News would have looked like if they had reported on historic events of the past. Geraldo Rivera: “This just in: we’ve learned that  [more...]