Just As I Thought

Fun Stuff

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.

April 24, 2023

Life... Don't talk to me about life.

Last year — yes, it’s been almost a year — when I bought my house in California, I was struck by the absence of autumn. The leaves were still on the trees well into December, the days were warm and [more...]

October 16, 2006

On the Board

The War with the Customer

Paper and stickers and stamps, oh my

Let’s talk about bureaucracy and inefficiency. In Virginia, the only thing I needed to do to drive in the HOV lanes with my Prius was, originally, the Prius itself. The car was its own evidence of hybrid [more...]

October 16, 2006

The War with the Customer

Making a volcano out of a molehill

So, the middle-of-the-month earthquake which I so deftly predicted yesterday is now big news on the cable networks — well, it’s not that they are giving us news, they’re just giving us chatter and [more...]

October 15, 2006

Life... Don't talk to me about life.

This is how change arrives

The headline this morning: former Rep. Gerry Studds has died. For those of you with short memories, Studds was both the first openly gay congressman and the Democrat who had an affair with an underage Congressional page [more...]

October 14, 2006

Life... Don't talk to me about life.

The Big One (Seven)

October 14, 2006

Right = Wrong

How to Spot Truly Vicious People in Church

In our ongoing mission of pointing out spin and talking points, here’s a quote from President Bush’s comments this morning: President Bush again rejected calls to hold bilateral talks with North Korea today [more...]

October 11, 2006

Right = Wrong

Our destablized world and welcome to it

And now we see the wisdom of the “preemptive doctrine” of George Bush and the neo-cons: war in Afghanistan which is rapidly falling back into the hands of the Taliban. War in Iraq which has turned into a [more...]

October 11, 2006