Pat Sajak spells it out: Is it just possible that there are those who are reluctant to criticize an act of terror [the murder of Theo Van Gogh] because that might somehow align them with President Bush, who stubbornly clings to the notion that these are evil people who need to be defeated? Could the [...]
Music News
Nov 29, ’04
1:29 PM
Here’s an invite to any of my NY/NJ-based readers: Ari Scott, a delightful singer-songwriter (and former official pre-VM girlfriend), is releasing her new EP I Can Open My Eyes at The Bitter End (147 Bleeker St., NYC) tomorrow night (Tues., Nov. 30) at 9:30pm! Join me, the official VM girlfriend, and a bunch of our [...]
Whew!
Nov 29, ’04
1:14 PM
Relatively uneventful Thanksgiving weekend. The official VM girlfriend cooked a fantastic meal for me, the official VM Mom and my college buddy Mark. There was duck, cornbread/chicken dressing, fig/zinfandel sauce, butternut squash soup, and a sweet potato pie to die for. And there were plenty of leftovers, as expected. The weekend/vacation was punctuated by a [...]
“Freedom’s Front Line”
Nov 27, ’04
8:27 PM
Timothy Garton Ash–who wrote a pretty neat book about the East German surveillance file that was kept on him–has a great piece in the Guardian about the voter revolution in the Ukraine: Yet until Tuesday, many west Europeans probably did not even know that there was a presidential election going on in Ukraine. We were [...]
Aubernica
Nov 24, ’04
10:16 AM
Pistons-Pacers, reimagined by Picasso. (thanks to Andrew Sullivan for the link)
My new psychic technique is unstoppable
Nov 23, ’04
6:16 AM
To quote my own NBA preview: The Pacers believe they were one knee-tweak to Jermaine O’Neal away from getting to the Finals last year, which avoids the reality that Ron Artest is a freaking maniac whom David Stern would’ve given his left arm to keep out of the NBA’s biggest stage. And [Artest is] the [...]
Weather With You
Nov 19, ’04
6:27 PM
A year ago today, I embarked on a 15-day trip to New Zealand (click over to the 11/03 and 12/03 archives for the wacky details). At the time, I was struggling pretty badly with a broken heart. During my two weeks on the other side of the planet, I discovered how the memory of joy [...]
Elementary
Nov 18, ’04
8:13 PM
I think this whole blackmail plot about Gary Sheffield’s wife’s sex-tape with R. Kelly is made up. I mean, there’s no way the tape is real. Think about it: the tape was supposedly made 10 years ago, but Gary’s wife would’ve been older than 15 back then. QED.
Nov 18, ’04
1:02 PM
I’m not fat, I’m just big skeletoned! How could you not read an article that includes the line: “Davis still believes in innovation. As one example, the company recently started making a folding coffin bed”? Coffins for fat people. From a company called Goliath Casket. I can’t make this stuff up.
