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.

Wonder no longer

The thing about me, you see, is that I can very rapidly go from the depths of despair to the height of joy. What has bouyed my spirit this afternoon?
My Wonderfalls DVDs arrived!

On the Board

The eureka moment

E.J. Dionne this morning writes about the bizarre cult of Bush Budget promoters and how they throw out statistics that are just plain lies… and a cowed media reports them as fact. But what I found most interesting  [more...]

Behind the times

No wonder the digital TV transition seems to be going so slow: journalists never seem to get the idea that it’s already happened. Every time I read an article about DTV, the facts are all wrong or the writer  [more...]

Problem solver

It’s an inimitable Bush tactic: point out a problem in order to bolster your ideological plans… but don’t ever actually do anything about the problem itself. He’s been traveling around (on your  [more...]

Papers, please

Do you ever think to yourself that it’s all gone too far, this new emphasis on “security”? I place that word in quotes because my common sense tells me that the vast majority of the new  [more...]