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.

Bad Wolf TV begins now

When even the BBC caves to lowest-common-denominator “journalism,” what’s left to believe in? I just sat down to watch the BBC World News, and was horrified at the content of tonight’s show. With  [more...]

On the Board

They can use the puffy shirts from Colonial House

Well, we’ve seen 1900 House, Frontier House, and Manor House… but the most bizarre and alien era yet is about to be explored: The 70s House. Imagine a world without cell phones, without broadband Internet  [more...]

Moving up in the ratings

Spurred on by “I Hate DC“, I took a look at surveys and compared my old home, Washington, DC, with my new home (or as close as I could get), San Francisco. The results are extraordinary, and tell me a lot  [more...]

A post for Terry Kevin

TV Land is showing a big line up of old Warner Brothers TV shows today, ostensibly for the Warner Bros. 50th anniversary — I can only assume this must be the 50th anniversary of Warner’s TV department  [more...]

Out in San Jose

I climbed aboard the light rail today and headed downtown to nose about. The light rail here is certainly nothing like Metro (or BART), but it does the job. One feature that it does have above the others is a convenient  [more...]