bloggy: July 2003 Archives

Smack Mellon's new site

Ten days ago I complained about Smack Mellon not updating their site to give info on the Outpost show. They...

Posted Wednesday July 30, 2003 at 11:17 PM | Full Post

Only for heterosexuals

Amazing. It's the top story on CNN right now. I'm not a big fan of the institution of marriage. I...

Posted Wednesday July 30, 2003 at 3:03 PM | Full Post

Counter Convention

The folks at complacent.org have set up a web site for people organizing against the evil GOP's use of NYC...

Posted Wednesday July 30, 2003 at 11:15 AM | Full Post

The Borders Mess

Go read a more balanced version of the story of a Borders banning a singer for making fun of Bush's...

Posted Tuesday July 29, 2003 at 1:32 PM | Full Post

Ruslan Sharipov

IMPORTANT! Glenn has a post about Ruslan Sharipov, an openly gay journalist and critic of the regime in Uzbekistan. He...

Posted Tuesday July 29, 2003 at 1:08 PM | Full Post

My alma mater can't afford a journalism school

The administration at Texas A&M (a university with 45,000 students) is proposing to close the School of Journalism because...

Posted Tuesday July 29, 2003 at 12:49 PM | Full Post

Israel's army killing children

My friend Anees has an article up about the recent report that Israel's Defence Force has killed just over 400...

Posted Monday July 28, 2003 at 2:49 PM | Full Post

In the original German

Pacific Views: Bill Maher on Davis Recall: "Arnold can explain the administration's social policies in the original German."...

Posted Monday July 28, 2003 at 1:21 PM | Full Post

How may out cops does NYC have?

London's Pride parade was led off Saturday by the Metropolitan Police's Commander Brian Paddick, the highest ranking gay officer in...

Posted Monday July 28, 2003 at 11:25 AM | Full Post

We're kidnapping women in Iraq

Via Eschaton I see there is a Washington Post article that says we are now taking hostages in Iraq as...

Posted Monday July 28, 2003 at 11:08 AM | Full Post

Art + Chunkathalon

Yesterday we went to Williamsburg to see a couple of galleries, but we spent most of the time at the...

Posted Sunday July 27, 2003 at 7:39 PM | Full Post

Dearraindrop in The Art Newspaper

The Art Newspaper has an amusing interview with Dearraindrop from the night of their opening at John Connelly Presents....

Posted Saturday July 26, 2003 at 2:31 PM | Full Post

Rev. Jen

LowerManhattan.info, better known as a place to follow the latest WTC developments, profiles Jen Miller, aka the Reverend Jen, in...

Posted Friday July 25, 2003 at 11:33 PM | Full Post

The Screwing of Cynthia McKinney

I first saw the Greg Palast article a few weeks, ago, but after seeing Michael Tomasky refer to Cynthia McKinney...

Posted Friday July 25, 2003 at 7:18 PM | Full Post

Unframed at Lehmann Maupin

Francis Holstrom Francis Holstrom Anna Jednoducha We saw these three works, and much more, at the "Unframed" opening last...

Posted Friday July 25, 2003 at 5:29 PM | Full Post

Jobs / Smoking

Crain's reports that the number of restaurant industry jobs has risen since the smoking ban went into effect....

Posted Friday July 25, 2003 at 10:55 AM | Full Post

Dexter Buell

Go check out Dexter Buell's new web site. We have several video and photographic works of his....

Posted Friday July 25, 2003 at 10:53 AM | Full Post

Winterreise

Go! They're doing the Simon Keenlyside/Twyla Tharp Winterreise again this year at Lincoln Center -- July 29th, July 31st, and...

Posted Friday July 25, 2003 at 10:28 AM | Full Post

Queer angle

James is your source for news on the queer angle in the City Hall shooting. Here's the first post....

Posted Friday July 25, 2003 at 12:53 AM | Full Post

Dealing with large books

Thomas Locke Hobbs has launched his new web site -- a photo blog. Check out his ingenious solution for dealing...

Posted Wednesday July 23, 2003 at 3:02 PM | Full Post

An evening in the East Village

I spent the evening in the East Village, meeting my friend Cynthia at Benny's East, a regular meeting spot for...

Posted Wednesday July 23, 2003 at 12:36 AM | Full Post

Followup to "The Men of Ward 57"

After seeing my post The men of ward 57, a friend who was a "Donut Dolly" visiting soldiers in the...

Posted Tuesday July 22, 2003 at 12:51 PM | Full Post

We got ya culture right here

Yeah! ArtsJournal has launched several weblogs: Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City Andrew Taylor on the business...

Posted Tuesday July 22, 2003 at 12:26 PM | Full Post

Reuters didn't get the memo

Wow -- look at this headline: Jessica Lynch Due Home After Media Hype on Heroism PALESTINE, W.Va. (Reuters) - Jessica...

Posted Tuesday July 22, 2003 at 10:49 AM | Full Post

Jessie's photos of NYC

Jessie of contrasts.net has up some cool photos from his recent NYC trip....

Posted Monday July 21, 2003 at 10:15 PM | Full Post

Guardian to publish American magazine

I was reminded that I hadn't posted anything about this when I saw the article in the NY Times today....

Posted Monday July 21, 2003 at 4:00 PM | Full Post

The men of ward 57

Even though he will begin married life in a wheelchair after the loss of both his feet, First Lt....

Posted Sunday July 20, 2003 at 3:00 PM | Full Post

Today's Man

I went to the opening of Today's Man at John Connelly Presents. Due to the fact that the MTA decided...

Posted Sunday July 20, 2003 at 1:58 PM | Full Post

Outpost / Future Species

Last Sunday we went to DUMBO to see Outpost at Smack Mellon and Future Species at DUMBO Arts Center (DAC)....

Posted Sunday July 20, 2003 at 1:15 PM | Full Post

Single-party rule

Non Sequitur on single-party rule...

Posted Saturday July 19, 2003 at 3:15 PM | Full Post

Jingoism in the defense of...

The Washington Post reports that the White House was so unhappy about an ABC News story about bad morale in...

Posted Saturday July 19, 2003 at 12:50 AM | Full Post

Mr. Pokey

-- I didn't know Mr. Pokey. I just saw this in the Village and liked it....

Posted Friday July 18, 2003 at 8:42 PM | Full Post

Report from Palestine

James has posted a report from our friend Steve about his activities with the International Solidarity Movement and Jews Against...

Posted Thursday July 17, 2003 at 1:46 PM | Full Post

Bastille Day

Work stuff, plus German class twice per week is killing my schedule. That's why I haven't had time to post...

Posted Thursday July 17, 2003 at 12:18 PM | Full Post

Rationing healthcare

One of the arguments people use to justify our "free market" medical system as opposed to some form of national...

Posted Friday July 11, 2003 at 12:18 PM | Full Post

SUVs - unsafe at any speed?

I thought people justified gas-guzzling SUVs because of their safety (ignoring any penis-size insecurity issues). Do you think most cars...

Posted Friday July 11, 2003 at 12:10 PM | Full Post

All Too Flat - Rubik's Cube

Am I the last person to hear about All Too Flat -- the geeky humor site? I heard about...

Posted Friday July 11, 2003 at 12:48 AM | Full Post

Bastille Day

I can't think of a more important year to attend Florent's Bastille Day celebration. There is nothing on the website...

Posted Thursday July 10, 2003 at 6:35 PM | Full Post

The Talley Trilogy

I haven't written much in the last week because I've been taking a brutal antibiotic for my sinuses which saps...

Posted Thursday July 10, 2003 at 1:14 AM | Full Post

Caeser doesn't want to see any of those black folk

... while he's making a speech about slavery. While "President" Bush was giving his speech about the evils of slavery...

Posted Wednesday July 9, 2003 at 7:26 PM | Full Post

webguerillas.org

Check out webguerillas.org's netifesto. Is that what we wanted the internet to be?...

Posted Sunday July 6, 2003 at 1:22 PM | Full Post

K Mroczek

Regarding the Camp Nest Trader guy, his name is Kenneth Mroczek....

Posted Friday July 4, 2003 at 1:47 AM | Full Post

Economist Style Guide

For the word nerds out there, and I'm thinking of one in particular: The Economist Style Guide...

Posted Wednesday July 2, 2003 at 1:10 PM | Full Post

My home state

Somewhat apropos for this post, I just learned I'm the #1 hit when someone searches Google for Arkansas is a...

Posted Wednesday July 2, 2003 at 12:18 AM | Full Post

A couple of photos

... from the opening AA Bronson and Paul P. Camp Nest Trader. No, I have no idea either. -- Updated:...

Posted Tuesday July 1, 2003 at 8:52 PM | Full Post

Reminder

The K48/John Connelly/Daniel Reich show at D'Amelio Terras opens tonight, 6-8....

Posted Tuesday July 1, 2003 at 3:29 PM | Full Post