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.

File it under Fox

Fox is so difficult to figure out. It seems like a mentally ill corporation with multiple personalities. They’ve now canceled “Arrested Development”, quietly and without fanfare. They’ve pulled  [more...]

On the Board

Is it just us?

Now the Pope has declared his support for “intelligent design” — surprise, surprise — which just points out with even sharper relief the goal here: to repackage creationism with a new name. I  [more...]

They were the Borg before the Borg

Yes, way back in 1966, Doctor Who had already introduced us to the sci-fi concept of the cybernetic man — humans who had replaced so many parts of their body that they became evil half-men, half machines bent on  [more...]

Sanity Sabbatical

You know, you’d think that I would be happy — I just bought a nice little house in sunny California, I have enough money socked away to pay for it for two years, things should be hunky dory. So why  [more...]

It’s the little things

Once in a very great while, when eating Tostitos with a hint of lime, you come across a chip that is totally covered with that lime coating, so much so that the chip looks like it fell in the dirt. Man, that’s  [more...]

All day, all night

I have just run out of hours in the day to blog about all the nonsense, scandal, and just plain bad behavior coming from the White House and other right-wing-controlled institutions in our government. I feel like  [more...]