Happy Halloween
James carved me a jack o' lantern....
Posted Thursday October 31, 2002 at 11:41 PM | Full Post
No one ever called the NRA "sensitive"
NRA goes ahead with Tucson rally days after shootings at nursing school...
Posted Thursday October 31, 2002 at 8:36 PM | Full Post
Some Tom Waits MP3s
From Alice: Alice Everything You Can Think I'm Still Here Barcarolle From Blood Money: Coney Island Baby All The World...
Posted Thursday October 31, 2002 at 8:18 PM | Full Post
No, it's not an Onion story
Albanian and Russian Observers Sent to Monitor American Elections (specifically in Florida)...
Posted Thursday October 31, 2002 at 3:09 PM | Full Post
Christina Mazzalupo
One of the fabulous artists in the Barry and James collection has a new web site! She's adorable, and she's...
Posted Thursday October 31, 2002 at 3:06 PM | Full Post
Can't be an Atheist in the Boy Scouts
From CNN: Atheist Scout given a week to declare belief "We've asked him to search his heart, to confer with...
Posted Thursday October 31, 2002 at 3:00 PM | Full Post
Follow up to "he's lying"
Here's a followup to my earlier post about Bush's uncomfortable relationship with the truth. Eleanor Clift, columnist and wife of...
Posted Thursday October 31, 2002 at 2:52 PM | Full Post
I don't miss my home state
In an article on the fact that the wife of Arkansas's governor, Mike Huckabee, is running for Secretary of State...
Posted Thursday October 31, 2002 at 2:37 PM | Full Post
Attacks on girls' schools in Afghanistan
The NY Times has a followup article on the story I posted yesterday. The latest attack was 30 miles from...
Posted Thursday October 31, 2002 at 2:22 PM | Full Post
Bloomberg, the new Giuliani?
Bloomberg is turning into the new Giuliani. Not only is he talking about a West Side stadium, the Police are...
Posted Thursday October 31, 2002 at 2:16 PM | Full Post
Page Not Found
While looking for Wieland Wagner pictures for my "Woyzeck" post, I came across this excellent Page Not Found error page...
Posted Thursday October 31, 2002 at 2:00 PM | Full Post
Woyzeck
Two nights ago we saw "Woyzeck" by Tom Waits, Kathleen Brennan, and Robert Wilson at BAM. The music is amazing....
Posted Thursday October 31, 2002 at 1:50 PM | Full Post
I love a Man in Uniform
The Guardian has an article on two small town policemen, a gay couple, in South Africa....
Posted Thursday October 31, 2002 at 1:02 PM | Full Post
Em & Lo's UK Debut
My friends Emma and Lorelei (of Nerve fame) have just made their debut in the Guardian....
Posted Wednesday October 30, 2002 at 5:38 PM | Full Post
Our war in Afghanistan
I'm tired of listening to people talking about how we bombed Afghanistan because of our more enlightened view of women....
Posted Wednesday October 30, 2002 at 12:59 PM | Full Post
Great letter in Salon
... by Christopher Dazey on media coverage of anti-war rallies. Here is a sample, but you should read the whole...
Posted Wednesday October 30, 2002 at 12:37 AM | Full Post
Cheney disinvited to Wellstone's Funeral
Good for the Wellstone family! They have disinvited Dick Cheney from the memorial service, because they're unhappy at the vociferous...
Posted Wednesday October 30, 2002 at 12:08 AM | Full Post
Williamsburg galleries
We went to Williamsburg this afternoon to see our friend Meighan Gale's show at Black & White Gallery, on its...
Posted Monday October 28, 2002 at 10:34 PM | Full Post
Ha'aretz has had it
The only Middle Eastern paper I read regularly -- Ha'aretz seems to have had it with the settlers and the...
Posted Monday October 28, 2002 at 11:15 AM | Full Post
Electronic voting
Since we live in a third-world country, unlike Brazil, we don't have electronic voting in our small towns. There is...
Posted Sunday October 27, 2002 at 6:06 PM | Full Post
Vote Green
I see no reason to vote for Carl McCall in this election. Pataki, whom I despise as much as the...
Posted Sunday October 27, 2002 at 5:48 PM | Full Post
Don't tell me the anti-war side is wacky
I keep hearing stuff about how most people see those attending anti-war protests as out of touch liberals and wacky...
Posted Sunday October 27, 2002 at 12:56 PM | Full Post
Queen ... puck ... Canadian
I find this comic vaguely compelling: It's referring to this:...
Posted Saturday October 26, 2002 at 11:43 PM | Full Post
A day at the galleries
We walked around for quite a few hours today, going to Chelsea galleries. It's hard to link, since a lot...
Posted Saturday October 26, 2002 at 11:26 PM | Full Post
New photos added
Go here....
Posted Saturday October 26, 2002 at 8:31 PM | Full Post
Follow-up to anti-SUV ads
Arianna got a huge response to her anti-SUV advertising proposal. There is now a fund set up to pay for...
Posted Saturday October 26, 2002 at 7:37 PM | Full Post
Feeling more like a police state every day
The government is so concerned about our children's welfare. Apparently, the "No Child Left Behind Act", President Bush's education law...
Posted Saturday October 26, 2002 at 7:29 PM | Full Post
Refuseniks
Photo of Israeli soldiers at the Supreme Court. They have refused to serve in the Occupied Territories....
Posted Saturday October 26, 2002 at 6:58 PM | Full Post
Paul Wellstone
This is HORRIBLE. One of the only liberal members of the U.S. Senate has died in a plane crash....
Posted Friday October 25, 2002 at 2:26 PM | Full Post
The (S) Files
I went to the opening of "The (S) Files" at El Museo Del Barrio. They have great opening parties --...
Posted Friday October 25, 2002 at 11:51 AM | Full Post
Penny Arcade's run for the state assembly
There's an article in Backstage (via Yahoo) on Penny Arcade's run for the state assembly. It starts out talking about...
Posted Thursday October 24, 2002 at 2:55 PM | Full Post
CD 2002
Eric Doeringer's latest project is cool. I just added to my Eric Doeringer collection here at the Barry and James...
Posted Wednesday October 23, 2002 at 7:04 PM | Full Post
Jihad against dog owners
Maybe this Iranian cleric can start with my building? I don't hate all dog owners, just most of the ones...
Posted Wednesday October 23, 2002 at 6:40 PM | Full Post
A feminist play in Gaza
A nice story out of Gaza for once: a feminist play with Palestinian actresses. Check out the photo -- great...
Posted Wednesday October 23, 2002 at 4:46 PM | Full Post
Why can't they just say "he lies"?
From the Washington Post: For Bush, Facts Are Malleable Other times, the president's assertions simply outpace the facts. In New...
Posted Wednesday October 23, 2002 at 4:44 PM | Full Post
Got Oil?
Arianna says, if we're going to run those stupid "drug users fuel terrorism" ads, why not run ones that really...
Posted Tuesday October 22, 2002 at 12:01 PM | Full Post
Office Killer
I finally saw Cindy Sherman's film Office Killer. Wow. It really is awful. Good cast (Molly Ringwald, Carol Kane, Barbara...
Posted Monday October 21, 2002 at 11:36 PM | Full Post
Loving David Ehrenstein
Beautiful, beautiful post about queerness, Gus Van Sant, Michael Chabon, etc....
Posted Monday October 21, 2002 at 11:11 PM | Full Post
And Then?
An essay by a writer on his first muse: his Sicilian grandmother....
Posted Monday October 21, 2002 at 7:20 PM | Full Post
Evildoer t-shirt
I should get one....
Posted Monday October 21, 2002 at 1:06 PM | Full Post
Hey! I resent that!
Today's Doonesbury...
Posted Monday October 21, 2002 at 12:58 PM | Full Post
Those Democrats
... are going speak up as soon as it seems like the right time -- Tom Tomorrow....
Posted Monday October 21, 2002 at 12:57 PM | Full Post
Daily News followup
James says I should take credit, but I doubt it's my doing. The NY Daily News has an article about...
Posted Monday October 21, 2002 at 12:48 PM | Full Post
Boca
I saw this when it was just a workshop production at Target Margin's Ring Festival. I just got a card...
Posted Sunday October 20, 2002 at 11:55 PM | Full Post
DUMBO Art under the Bridge Festival
I still have this flu-like thing going, but I went for a few hours to this DUMBO festival. It was...
Posted Sunday October 20, 2002 at 11:50 PM | Full Post
Secrecy Smells
I don't normally link to anything that has my real name from this site, but I couldn't help myself this...
Posted Sunday October 20, 2002 at 7:40 PM | Full Post
Beautiful Eggleston Photographs
Go here and click on the slide show....
Posted Sunday October 20, 2002 at 2:06 PM | Full Post
The End of Middle-Class America
Paul Krugman has the cover article in this week's NY Times Magazine, on how America is becoming a plutocracy, and...
Posted Sunday October 20, 2002 at 2:03 PM | Full Post
Dan Savage has lost it
I ignored Dan as he kept screaming about Ralph Nader supposedly costing Al "can't wait to talk about God and...
Posted Saturday October 19, 2002 at 6:02 PM | Full Post
Terrorism insurance before health insurance
Where are our priorities? I just read this letter in the NY Times. Re "The Forgotten Domestic Crisis," by Marcia...
Posted Saturday October 19, 2002 at 12:34 PM | Full Post
Julian Fleisher
Gay City News has an article on the lovely and talented Julian Fleisher....
Posted Saturday October 19, 2002 at 12:20 PM | Full Post
Julio Rivera
Probably many people have heard of his murder, but know little else. Gay City News has a good history of...
Posted Saturday October 19, 2002 at 12:16 PM | Full Post
Christoph Schmidberger
When I wrote about his show earlier, I couldn't link to images of his work because Nikolai Fine Art's web...
Posted Friday October 18, 2002 at 6:29 PM | Full Post
Why did they wait to tell us about No. Korea?
So, the Bush administration knew about North Korea's admission concerning its nuclear program one week before the vote on Iraq...
Posted Friday October 18, 2002 at 12:02 PM | Full Post
Yes, it's real
From a BBC article on the BG Wildlife Photographer Of The Year awards. The contest site is here....
Posted Friday October 18, 2002 at 11:17 AM | Full Post
My current favorite blog
... is TBOGG. He's consistently funny, whether he's skewering Andrew "shilling for big pharm" Sullivan, having a "Name the War"...
Posted Thursday October 17, 2002 at 1:48 PM | Full Post
Remind me which ones are allies?
The Council on Foreign Relations, not exactly a left-wing group, has issued a new report saying that Saudi Arabia is...
Posted Thursday October 17, 2002 at 1:40 PM | Full Post
My home state doin' us proud
Fried Twinkie Fad Hits Arkansas...
Posted Tuesday October 15, 2002 at 1:14 PM | Full Post
House Viet Nam Vet opposes Iraq War
I just read a column in the NY Daily News by Juan Gonzalez about Silvestre Reyes, a conservative Democrat from...
Posted Tuesday October 15, 2002 at 11:12 AM | Full Post
Flu? Plus Craig Chester
I might not post much for a little bit. I think I have the flu, or at least something unpleasant...
Posted Monday October 14, 2002 at 11:49 PM | Full Post
Why do I read the NY Daily News?
Yes, sometimes their owner/publisher, and columnists like Zev Chafets (blaming Jerrold Nadler for not caring about the safety of American...
Posted Monday October 14, 2002 at 12:46 PM | Full Post
Our own theocracy
Maybe they should spend some time reading about world history, other cultures, and an intelligence report or two. White House...
Posted Monday October 14, 2002 at 12:37 PM | Full Post
The NY Times Magazine
... has two great articles today. What is a European, by A.S. Byatt, and Michael Kimmelman on the re-appearance of...
Posted Sunday October 13, 2002 at 3:17 PM | Full Post
Article on Tom Ryan
Bay Windows has a great article on the only out gay man in the NY Fire Department -- Tom Ryan....
Posted Sunday October 13, 2002 at 2:17 PM | Full Post
Gallery recommendations!
We braved the rain to go to a few shows today, and I strongly recommend two of them: Christoph Schmidberger...
Posted Saturday October 12, 2002 at 6:09 PM | Full Post
Firefighters' March
I just got back from standing in the rain, watching the firefighters march up Eighth Avenue from 14th Street to...
Posted Saturday October 12, 2002 at 11:21 AM | Full Post
Police barricades everywhere
There are police barricades everywhere along Eighth Avenue and Ninth Avenue in Chelsea. Those were the only avenues I saw...
Posted Saturday October 12, 2002 at 12:00 AM | Full Post
More than one per week
They won because they're the best technology, right? Microsoft discloses security flaw Microsoft Corp. disclosed a security flaw Thursday of...
Posted Friday October 11, 2002 at 3:25 PM | Full Post
Clowns
This one's for Glenn: an exhibit of amateur paintings of clowns from the collection of Robert Berman and Diane Keaton....
Posted Friday October 11, 2002 at 12:32 PM | Full Post
Guide to Tracey Emin
Let's talk about art for a bit, rather than politics. The Guardian has an amusing Web Guide to Tracey Emin,...
Posted Friday October 11, 2002 at 12:13 PM | Full Post
Pete Stark for President
Wow! Salon has the text of the speech he gave on the floor of the House yesterday opposing the Iraq...
Posted Friday October 11, 2002 at 1:28 AM | Full Post
Anti-war protest in Hilary's office
Two stories: 1010 WINS NYC Indymedia...
Posted Friday October 11, 2002 at 1:18 AM | Full Post
Signing away the Constitution
Having relinquished the power to decide war and peace, the House moves on. They have passed a resolution saying the...
Posted Thursday October 10, 2002 at 11:51 PM | Full Post
Satchmo
I was waiting for the subway at 23rd/7th tonight, when the resident entertainer, a blind singer named Bobby Blow, started...
Posted Thursday October 10, 2002 at 10:41 PM | Full Post
Trip photos
I think I'm done (or mostly done) with my trip photos. It's pretty impressionistic. You're as likely to see pictures...
Posted Thursday October 10, 2002 at 10:37 PM | Full Post
Finally something amusing on my block
Having endured Krispy Kreme, Boston Market, and Trailer Park, finally something interesting has opened. We have a new Ricky's....
Posted Thursday October 10, 2002 at 4:21 PM | Full Post
Burn This
"Make it personal, tell the truth and then write 'Burn this' on the bottom." We saw Burn This last night,...
Posted Thursday October 10, 2002 at 12:33 PM | Full Post
Chomsky interview
Znet has a very informative interview with Noam Chomsky on Iraq. He sounds pretty reasonable for a man many paint...
Posted Thursday October 10, 2002 at 12:02 PM | Full Post
Those wacky Christians
I love stories like this: Grade tampering scandal hits Christian college Gardner-Webb University has been embroiled in controversy ever since...
Posted Wednesday October 9, 2002 at 5:24 PM | Full Post
What corporate scandals? Let's talk War!
I feel the need to quote TBOGG's title for this: We'd love to look into this...but we've got a war...
Posted Wednesday October 9, 2002 at 12:41 PM | Full Post
NYPL exhibit
On a happier note, there is an exhibit at the NYPL on New York City wildlife -- yes there actually...
Posted Tuesday October 8, 2002 at 9:17 PM | Full Post
Weapons inspectors were not expelled in 1998
In These Times has an interview with Scott Ritter, who served as Chief U.N. weapons inspector in Iraq until 1998....
Posted Tuesday October 8, 2002 at 2:22 PM | Full Post
Money for war, but not for the veterans
Apparently Bush and his masters think there's enough money to spend $9+ billion per month on Iraq, but there's not...
Posted Monday October 7, 2002 at 11:05 PM | Full Post
Smart column on our Wilsonian problem
Walter LaFeber, distinguished historian, has a good column in the Washington Post on our country's Wilsonian split personality when it...
Posted Monday October 7, 2002 at 6:59 PM | Full Post
Georgie Anne Geyer Rocks!
I just found this column, courtesy of TBOGG. Some readers may have gotten the impression that I am unequivocally against...
Posted Monday October 7, 2002 at 6:02 PM | Full Post
Go, Maine!
Protesters Jeer Gephardt "Gephardt, Gephardt has no spine! He just follows Bush's line," the crowd loudly repeated, holding signs and...
Posted Monday October 7, 2002 at 2:45 PM | Full Post
Rally media follow-up
The New York Times article is horrible. My feeble post was as journalistic as their report, which mostly quotes people...
Posted Monday October 7, 2002 at 10:41 AM | Full Post
Anti-war rally
I'm getting a cold, so this is going to be a stream-of-consciousness post about the rally. There are some photos...
Posted Sunday October 6, 2002 at 11:44 PM | Full Post
Back from the anti-war rally
I'll post more in a little while -- just got home. We were there until it ended. I would estimate...
Posted Sunday October 6, 2002 at 6:34 PM | Full Post
All guns, no butter
I'm about to head up to Central Park for this. I hope to see some of you there. Actually, maybe...
Posted Sunday October 6, 2002 at 12:05 PM | Full Post
Creepy anti-semitic encounter
Read James's account of our encounter with the "Jews hate Bush" lady....
Posted Saturday October 5, 2002 at 11:47 PM | Full Post
Why the teddy bear?
Why are there always teddy bears at things like this? I find it sort of creepy. This bench is in...
Posted Saturday October 5, 2002 at 11:10 PM | Full Post
Potty Mouth
I went to see Andy's show Potty Mouth last night (or is it early this morning). As we waited outside...
Posted Saturday October 5, 2002 at 1:30 PM | Full Post
Just plain creepy
Bob Crane -- of Hogans Heroes fame -- was a home pornographer. His son has a web site where you...
Posted Thursday October 3, 2002 at 7:00 PM | Full Post
Good report from BBC on American soldiers in Afghanistan
Titled Doubts set in on Afghan mission, it says that the Americans are looking increasingly like occupiers to the Afghans...
Posted Thursday October 3, 2002 at 5:31 PM | Full Post
Dipping my toes back into the art pool
I should be doing work, but several shows were about to close, so we went to a few Chelsea galleries...
Posted Thursday October 3, 2002 at 5:16 PM | Full Post
Don't vote for Democrats who vote for war
Choire says it better than my still jet-lagged brain can. Go sign Michael Moore's petition, and send some letters....
Posted Thursday October 3, 2002 at 11:10 AM | Full Post
Notes at the Vienna airport and in the air
This should be the last one. These are some notes I took on the flight to New York. Looking around...
Posted Wednesday October 2, 2002 at 11:09 PM | Full Post
Random final notes on trip
One of the rooms we visited in the Schoenbrunn in Vienna was the room used by Franz Josef II for...
Posted Wednesday October 2, 2002 at 10:37 PM | Full Post
Galileo at BAM
We went to the NYC premiere of Philip Glass's new opera "Galileo Galilei" at BAM last night. It was very...
Posted Wednesday October 2, 2002 at 10:05 PM | Full Post
Interesting summary of Israeli papers on the latest Arafat siege
Recriminations Among the Ruins -- from Slate....
Posted Wednesday October 2, 2002 at 9:56 PM | Full Post
Gym
I hate the gym. Hate it hate it hate it! I hate the blank-eyed pretty boys with bed-head who go...
Posted Wednesday October 2, 2002 at 7:53 PM | Full Post
New blog to read
I'm adding David Ehernstein to my blogs in the right column. Check out HIV or SUV, and Loose Cannons....
Posted Wednesday October 2, 2002 at 11:28 AM | Full Post
The real goal is empire
Jay Bookman, one of the editors of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution has a very good column from a couple of days...
Posted Wednesday October 2, 2002 at 10:11 AM | Full Post
News log on Iraq
AlterNet has a War on Iraq newslog page....
Posted Wednesday October 2, 2002 at 9:58 AM | Full Post
U.S. denies visa to acclaimed Iranian director
I just saw this story, as I was looking through news upon my return. Director Abbas Kiarostami, one of international...
Posted Tuesday October 1, 2002 at 9:23 AM | Full Post
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