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.

Bringing back the romance of train travel

I am really astonished that the so-called “liberal media” hasn’t picked up this story yet. Because if one wanted any further evidence of this country’s slide into total fascism, this is it. Prior  [more...]

On the Board

California is on fire

What can I say about hundreds of thousands a million people evacuated from their homes uncertain as to whether those homes will be there when they come back? I can’t think of a single thing. While it doesn’t  [more...]

Every one of them makes me sick

You know, I almost feel like if there was a single Republican who didn’t follow the party talking points, who didn’t continually use the word “Democrat” when he should be saying  [more...]

This is what kind of geek I am

I set my DVR last night to record all four hours of the Today show this morning -- just wondering why in the world we need four freakin' hours of this? — because I knew that today was the day that NBC News was scheduled  [more...]

Customer annoyance. Delivered.

Despite all the horror stories about AT&T, I thought that they couldn't really be as bad as all that when I switched to a land line phone from the company (after years of Vonage service). But it has been hell, and it is  [more...]