What a crappy paper - The New York Times and ethics
Our friend Jay Blotcher, a freelance writer, has been sacked as a stringer for the New York Times because he...
Posted Saturday February 28, 2004 at 1:59 PM | Full Post
War, poetry, and music
There is no such thing as the State And no one exists alone; Hunger allows no choice To the...
Posted Saturday February 28, 2004 at 1:27 AM | Full Post
John and Robert
Two of my mother's closest friends in the town where she lives, Conway, Arkansas, are a gay couple named John...
Posted Thursday February 26, 2004 at 5:54 PM | Full Post
Culture mongers
We went to a couple of openings on Wednesday night. James has the details....
Posted Thursday February 26, 2004 at 5:12 PM | Full Post
New full RSS feed
For the people out there that read me using an RSS reader (I recommend bloglines), I have added a feed...
Posted Wednesday February 25, 2004 at 4:47 PM | Full Post
Writing discrimination into the Constitution
Aargh. It's bad enough that Bush wants to "protect" marriage: Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural...
Posted Tuesday February 24, 2004 at 1:38 PM | Full Post
Rod Paige strikes again
The last time I posted about the Education Secretary, he was praising "Christian Values" in the schools. Now he says...
Posted Monday February 23, 2004 at 6:18 PM | Full Post
Time Warner DVR
Is anyone else using Time Warner's DVR (Digital Video Recorder), kind of like Tivo? Ours is having trouble telling time....
Posted Monday February 23, 2004 at 5:01 PM | Full Post
Barry, while trying to write code
Posted Monday February 23, 2004 at 2:48 PM | Full Post
Chelsea gallery crawl
We visited several things of note today. One closed today (Barbara Pollack at Sara Meltzer), but the others are still...
Posted Saturday February 21, 2004 at 8:51 PM | Full Post
Other blogs - various posts
Some interesting things I've read today: Michael Bierut on The Final Decline and Total Collapse of the American Magazine Cover...
Posted Saturday February 21, 2004 at 7:53 PM | Full Post
On Governor Perry of Texas
Betty Bowers on the Governor Perry homo rumors....
Posted Friday February 20, 2004 at 11:08 PM | Full Post
My favorite NYC restaurants - Manhattan
My friend Lisa will be visiting Gotham with her mother and sister soon, and since I volunteered to make some...
Posted Tuesday February 17, 2004 at 10:08 PM | Full Post
Attachment is a Nasty Business
I don't feel so hot, so posting is limited at the moment. Here is an interview with Melissa James Gibson,...
Posted Monday February 16, 2004 at 11:47 PM | Full Post
Brooklyn Rail: John Waters
Brooklyn Rail has a John Waters interview. Given that it's not the NY Times, it's a bit more about art...
Posted Monday February 16, 2004 at 5:58 PM | Full Post
I'm a city boy
I'm a city boy. In the big cities they've set it up so you can go to a park and...
Posted Saturday February 14, 2004 at 2:22 PM | Full Post
Fernando Carabajal
Chalk Elephant, 2003 Fernando Carabajal Chalk & glue We saw work by this young artist on our trip to...
Posted Friday February 13, 2004 at 5:09 PM | Full Post
Obscenity
We all have our own ideas about what constitutes obscenity. Congress, FCC Focus on Pay Television Indecency Senate Commerce Committee...
Posted Wednesday February 11, 2004 at 2:14 PM | Full Post
Backing down?
Via Talk Left, I learn that the government seems to be backing down a bit on the whole peace activism...
Posted Wednesday February 11, 2004 at 12:39 AM | Full Post
Museums and the Web conference
I'm thinking about attending this. Are any of my readers? Have any of you been to it before?...
Posted Monday February 9, 2004 at 6:36 PM | Full Post
Protecting us from dangerous musicians
Several Cuban musicians were nominated for Grammies (Grammys?) Most of them couldn't attend the ceremony because the USA denied them...
Posted Monday February 9, 2004 at 5:19 PM | Full Post
You can look at the lamps
Mim Udovith interviews John Waters for the NY Times. UDOVITCH Do you think it's harder to be transgressive now than...
Posted Monday February 9, 2004 at 2:50 PM | Full Post
In a totalitarian state, dissent = terrorism
If this isn't police state behavior, I don't know what is. Lifted from Kos, go there for more info. The...
Posted Sunday February 8, 2004 at 6:45 PM | Full Post
AWOL Bush
Salon has a goood article by Eric Boehlert on where the evidence stands on Bush's "disappearance" from the Texas National...
Posted Sunday February 8, 2004 at 12:05 AM | Full Post
The Cremaster Myth
Tyler Green points out an interesting fact: Matthew Barney's The Cremaster Cycle wasn't the Krensian success that the Guggenheim (and...
Posted Saturday February 7, 2004 at 11:59 PM | Full Post
Mexico City updates
I have made some minor edits to my Mexico City posts, to add names of places and artists that I...
Posted Saturday February 7, 2004 at 6:35 PM | Full Post
Judge Silberman and the WMD panel
As an antidote to the "liberal media" like the New York Times that just refer to the panel's co-chair, David...
Posted Saturday February 7, 2004 at 6:27 PM | Full Post
As if American Airlines isn't enough of a target already
Lovely: An American Airlines pilot flying passengers to New York asked Christians on board to identify themselves and suggested the...
Posted Saturday February 7, 2004 at 4:11 PM | Full Post
Art to see
We've been to a few openings since we returned from Mexico City. Recommendations: East of the Sun and West of...
Posted Saturday February 7, 2004 at 3:38 PM | Full Post
Last day in Mexico City
On our last day we explored more of the downtown area. We went to the Palacio Nacional (National Palace), on...
Posted Tuesday February 3, 2004 at 11:59 PM | Full Post
Chiles en nogada
My post on Coyoacán was rather short, as I was exhausted at the time. I forgot to mention one of...
Posted Tuesday February 3, 2004 at 11:42 AM | Full Post
Colonia Roma, Tecla, galleries
I saw a hummingbird on our room balcony this morning. My cough is better, but now James has it. We...
Posted Monday February 2, 2004 at 8:52 PM | Full Post
Zócalo, etc.
Today we started at the Franz Meyer Museum, which is dedicated to decorative arts, mainly from the 17th-19th centuries. It...
Posted Sunday February 1, 2004 at 11:59 PM | Full Post
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