bloggy: August 2004 Archives

Reverend Billy and the Church of the First Amendment Mob

I'm pleasantly surprised by the New York Magazine weblog's coverage of the RNC protests. Here is their coverage of Reverend...

Posted Tuesday August 31, 2004 at 11:48 PM | Full Post

Police presence even on lower 9th Avenue

Wow. We're not going to be able to afford anything but cops in NYC after this week. There are 3-6...

Posted Tuesday August 31, 2004 at 8:51 PM | Full Post

The geekiest protest sign ever

Awesome! Joy Garnett has more, including an explanation for those less geeky. -- UPDATED: Our friend Michelle was marching...

Posted Tuesday August 31, 2004 at 1:55 PM | Full Post

Ed Schrock resigns from Congress

Congressman Ed Schrock (R-VA) in front of a statue of Saddam Hussein at the Baghdad International Airport. Since this...

Posted Monday August 30, 2004 at 10:40 PM | Full Post

Arrested in Iraq, Arrested in NYC

From Newsday: Newsday photographer Moises Saman - who spent eight days in an Iraqi prison in 2003 - was taken...

Posted Monday August 30, 2004 at 12:47 PM | Full Post

Anti-GOP March photos

I only took one, as I was generally holding the sign which said on one side: and on the...

Posted Sunday August 29, 2004 at 8:16 PM | Full Post

Times Square - for RNC delegates only

I'm listening to anoise.org right now. The police have cleared the Times Square area of all pedestrians so that the...

Posted Sunday August 29, 2004 at 6:41 PM | Full Post

Gothamist Gazette convention blog

Gothamist Gazette has a group blog covering the invasion/convention, with the writers including our friend Jon Winkleman....

Posted Sunday August 29, 2004 at 10:47 AM | Full Post

Reproductive Rights March

Here are more photos of our march across the Brooklyn Bridge today. Here is the post James did, with...

Posted Saturday August 28, 2004 at 5:08 PM | Full Post

For all of the arts bloggers...

who have added links to this site recently, don't worry. I will probably calm down and write about things art-ish...

Posted Friday August 27, 2004 at 8:33 PM | Full Post

anoise.org

I'm following the progress of Critical Mass on anoise.org right now -- streaming ant-RNC news all weekend. Good background from...

Posted Friday August 27, 2004 at 8:00 PM | Full Post

"I'm gonna kill the president"

We saw this play last night at an undisclosed location. I love a play where "moderate" is an insult. Go...

Posted Friday August 27, 2004 at 6:39 PM | Full Post

Get Your Pommes Frites On

Restaurant Florent is having some fun during the convention: You may have heard that the GOP is coming to...

Posted Friday August 27, 2004 at 12:21 PM | Full Post

Get Your War On

New one! Click on the image for the rest. David Rees's new book, Get Your War On II, comes out...

Posted Friday August 27, 2004 at 11:15 AM | Full Post

New Route Map for August 29

There is no rally at the end, just... who knows with a crowd of that size?...

Posted Thursday August 26, 2004 at 5:06 PM | Full Post

Naked ACT UP protesters at MSG

From NY1 - there's a video too. The police waited 15 minutes before arresting them. Interesting. A dozen AIDS...

Posted Thursday August 26, 2004 at 2:38 PM | Full Post

Organization tips for artists

Good post on this topic (not just for artists I think -- programmers too) by Franklin Einspruch....

Posted Thursday August 26, 2004 at 12:29 PM | Full Post

Hastert says New York was too greedy after 9/11

House Speaker Dennis Hastert at Ground Zero in '01 with Rudy Giuliani and Gov. Pataki. AP Dennis Hastert, Speaker...

Posted Thursday August 26, 2004 at 12:19 PM | Full Post

"Nice shirt, Britney"

Some day I'm going to get slapped by a midriff-baring Chelsea muscle queen when that pops out of my mouth...

Posted Wednesday August 25, 2004 at 4:25 PM | Full Post

NYC.Metroblogging

Gothamist has become so damn annoying (e.g. this) that I'm hoping Sean's NYC.Metroblogging site can become the NYC-oriented site we...

Posted Wednesday August 25, 2004 at 1:58 PM | Full Post

So much good political art to see

We went to amBUSH at Van Brunt gallery last night. I expect James will have something up about that soon....

Posted Wednesday August 25, 2004 at 1:47 PM | Full Post

Rooftop banners in Brooklyn

I love this story. I heard about it on the radio yesterday. Bright blue tarps, painted with glaring yellow letters,...

Posted Wednesday August 25, 2004 at 11:06 AM | Full Post

The First Amendment only applies to the NYPD and NYFD

The NYC police and firefighters don't have to worry about barricades, or someone telling them when and where they are...

Posted Monday August 23, 2004 at 8:55 PM | Full Post

The dumbest piece of clothing...

... from today's trip to the gym. An occasional series. It's listed under the "fashion" baseball caps on their site....

Posted Monday August 23, 2004 at 6:00 PM | Full Post

ArtsBlogging

Via one of my newest daily reads, ionarts, I just learned of a new collaborative art and culture blog called...

Posted Monday August 23, 2004 at 12:48 PM | Full Post

Conrad Cummings: Photo-Op

I have written before about Conrad Cummings on bloggy. Now is your chance to see his brilliant political opera Photo-Op,...

Posted Sunday August 22, 2004 at 2:42 PM | Full Post

New York City Welcomes Peaceful Political Activists

I'm not kidding. That's actually the headline on the article on the official NYC visitors site. This comes one...

Posted Tuesday August 17, 2004 at 6:20 PM | Full Post

Spiral Jetty

Todd Gibson (From the Floor) visited the Spiral Jetty recently. Here is the first post about it. Not only is...

Posted Monday August 16, 2004 at 6:09 PM | Full Post

Museum shows in LA

We saw some great museum shows while in LA. I really enjoyed the fact that we could see interesting modern...

Posted Thursday August 12, 2004 at 12:46 PM | Full Post

Greg Allen visits the Hiroshima memorial

... and encounters the Pakistani ambassador....

Posted Saturday August 7, 2004 at 2:47 PM | Full Post

Hamburgers at Peek's

We had lunch here yesterday, on the old Route 66. It was the last day for these owners (after...

Posted Tuesday August 3, 2004 at 2:41 PM | Full Post

Chung King Galleries

The hotel only has dial-up in the rooms, so posting won't happen too often, or be very link-ish. On Saturday...

Posted Tuesday August 3, 2004 at 3:10 AM | Full Post