bloggy: September 2004 Archives

Scather

Zach from LFL mentioned a culture blog I hadn't heard of at the Echo Eggebrecht opening tonight: Scather. Add it...

Posted Thursday September 30, 2004 at 10:42 PM | Full Post

Top picks in Chelsea

Current favorites: David Noonan at Foxy Production - see write-up from James Phoebe Washburn and Simone Shubuck at LFL -...

Posted Thursday September 30, 2004 at 10:32 PM | Full Post

New acquisition: Dan Rushton painting

Dan Rushton untitled 10 (2004) 40" × 30" gouache on panel James has more info....

Posted Wednesday September 29, 2004 at 5:56 PM | Full Post

Regime change

Posted Wednesday September 29, 2004 at 1:05 PM | Full Post

Eric Doeringer's Cremaster project

I've written about Eric Doeringer several times, and even appeared on a radio show talking about him. Here is his...

Posted Wednesday September 29, 2004 at 1:03 PM | Full Post

Top picks in Williamsburg

We have found ourselves in Williamsburg several times over the last month. My current picks for favorite shows there: Beth...

Posted Tuesday September 28, 2004 at 11:59 AM | Full Post

On Peter Hort, a clarification

I should clarify a few things regarding my post yesterday about Peter Hort's campain for Congress. I do not have...

Posted Tuesday September 28, 2004 at 11:49 AM | Full Post

Peter Hort, stealth Republican candidate for Congress

I have been meaning to write about this subject for several weeks, but today's Newsday article on Peter Hort reminded...

Posted Monday September 27, 2004 at 2:14 PM | Full Post

John F. Simon, Jr. interview

Thanks to reBlog, I found an interview from November 2003 with brilliant geek artist John F. Simon, Jr. We have...

Posted Monday September 27, 2004 at 11:16 AM | Full Post

Splendor of Florence

Florentine "arts and crafts" in lower Manhattan. Before that phrase sends you running away, I'll point out that it includes...

Posted Sunday September 26, 2004 at 11:59 PM | Full Post

Firstop - Williamsburg Design Weekend 3

I can't find much about this other than this page from firstop. Doesn't anyone bother to update web pages anymore?...

Posted Sunday September 26, 2004 at 11:22 PM | Full Post

Dixon Place

Ellie Covan, founder of Dixon Place at her apartment (which is also the home of Dixon Place) Dixon Place...

Posted Sunday September 26, 2004 at 9:53 PM | Full Post

More Iraqis killed by U.S. than by terror

I mentioned earlier that Donald Rumsfeld said "At some point the Iraqis will get tired of getting killed." The Detroit...

Posted Sunday September 26, 2004 at 12:05 PM | Full Post

Harry Callahan photograph of collage

HARRY CALLAHAN Collage, Chicago, 1957 gelatin silver print signed in stylus (in the margin); signed and annotated 'same as...

Posted Friday September 24, 2004 at 6:06 PM | Full Post

Mourning the Warrior, and Questioning the War

A few days ago, I wrote about Sue Niederer, the mother of a young soldier killed in Iraq, who interrupted...

Posted Wednesday September 22, 2004 at 9:43 PM | Full Post

Get Your War On 41

Number 41 is out....

Posted Tuesday September 21, 2004 at 11:51 AM | Full Post

Wooster Collective

If you're not looking at Wooster Collective : A Celebration of Street Art daily, you're missing out....

Posted Monday September 20, 2004 at 11:30 PM | Full Post

Great "essential" version of Bush's RNC speech

krupsjustsayin has a link to a great video of Bush's speech at the convention from Loop TV & Film. You...

Posted Saturday September 18, 2004 at 4:31 PM | Full Post

"They'll get tired of getting killed"

Jon Stewart showed clips of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on The Daily Show a few days ago to illustrate the...

Posted Saturday September 18, 2004 at 2:10 PM | Full Post

Leonard Cohen

70 things about Leonard Cohen...

Posted Thursday September 16, 2004 at 11:40 PM | Full Post

Dead GI's mother interrupts Laura Bush speech in NJ

Via Newsday/AP, from suburban New Jersey: A woman wearing a T-shirt with the words "President Bush You Killed My Son"...

Posted Thursday September 16, 2004 at 11:08 PM | Full Post

New Museum open house

I already put this on the arts calendar, but I wanted to put it here too to make sure people...

Posted Thursday September 16, 2004 at 8:13 PM | Full Post

Heard on 23rd Street

Two young suits, probably Wall Streeters, walking down my street. One points behind him at the Hotel Chelsea. Chelsea Hotel?...

Posted Thursday September 16, 2004 at 12:32 PM | Full Post

Cory Arcangel interview

John Bruneau Interviews Cory Arcangel...

Posted Thursday September 9, 2004 at 8:49 PM | Full Post

The Civilians: Nobody's Lunch @ P.S.122

Yeah! A new show from The Civilians at P.S.122, titled Nobody's Lunch. I've written about them many times before,...

Posted Thursday September 9, 2004 at 4:18 PM | Full Post

Rounding up journalists

Bloomberg says: You can't arrest 1,800 people without having somebody in the middle who shouldn't have been arrested. That's what...

Posted Wednesday September 8, 2004 at 1:26 PM | Full Post

Republicans bad for show biz

Via Crain's New York: Broadway was hit hard last week when the Republican National Convention was in town. Attendance for...

Posted Tuesday September 7, 2004 at 5:30 PM | Full Post

Cool use of Black & White's space by a sculptor

An image of Dewitt Godfrey's installation at Black and White Gallery, from the gallery web site: The ones you see...

Posted Tuesday September 7, 2004 at 11:36 AM | Full Post

Great article on Pedro Almodóvar

In the New York Times Magazine....

Posted Monday September 6, 2004 at 2:58 PM | Full Post

Another arrest account

Via Tom Tomorrow. It's not him, it's a female protestor, for those confused by jumping right to his post....

Posted Monday September 6, 2004 at 11:07 AM | Full Post

Robert Jones photography

Posted Sunday September 5, 2004 at 1:55 PM | Full Post

Account of a Critical Mass rider

Christopher Ryan sent me a link to his account of being arrested during Critical Mass. While I cringed a bit...

Posted Sunday September 5, 2004 at 1:41 PM | Full Post

Steffan Saffer @ müllerdechiara (Berlin)

If I were in Berlin, I would not miss this show by Stefan Saffer at müllerdechiara. We saw his...

Posted Saturday September 4, 2004 at 3:25 PM | Full Post

Good August 29 photos from the GLAMericans

We love the GLAMericans, and marched with them in one of the anti-war demos in early 2003. Here is...

Posted Saturday September 4, 2004 at 3:16 PM | Full Post

The Secret Forest of Princess Knight: Fantastic Landscapes from Japan

Hurrah! An art post! This looks like an interesting show from M.Y. Art Prospects: The Secret Forest of Princess Knight:...

Posted Saturday September 4, 2004 at 3:06 PM | Full Post

T-Mobile blocked TXTmob messages during a portion of the RNC

From Smart Mobs, via Eyebeam reBlog, currently guest-edited by Tom Moody. I like Tom's editor's comment at the end: [Speaking...

Posted Saturday September 4, 2004 at 2:20 PM | Full Post

Celebrating the end of the RNC

Last night we went to The Tank to drink liberally with bloggers and others. We shook the hand of Markos...

Posted Friday September 3, 2004 at 11:55 PM | Full Post

Jon Winkleman's 44 hours in jail

His account....

Posted Friday September 3, 2004 at 6:20 PM | Full Post

Bloomberg: Protestors = terrorists?

Fuck the election. How do we impeach him? From the NY Times: "It is true that a handful of people...

Posted Friday September 3, 2004 at 1:58 PM | Full Post

War, what is it good for?

As I read about the conventions and the presidential campaign, I was struck by something. We have reached the point...

Posted Friday September 3, 2004 at 1:32 PM | Full Post

New August 29 Photos

Todd Gibson, of From the Floor fame, sent me some of his photos from the August 29 anti-GOP march. Here...

Posted Thursday September 2, 2004 at 7:20 PM | Full Post

Guantanamo on the Hudson

The New York Press isn't exactly a left-wing paper, but here is what they have to say about the barbed...

Posted Thursday September 2, 2004 at 6:26 PM | Full Post

Young GOPer kicking an activist on the floor

Tom Tomorrow provides us with a link to a non-mac friendly video from local ABC affiliate of a young GOPer...

Posted Thursday September 2, 2004 at 5:44 PM | Full Post

I thought they criticized the Dems for wanting a "parent state"

'It struck me as I was speaking to people in Bangor, Maine, that this president sees America as we think...

Posted Thursday September 2, 2004 at 1:01 PM | Full Post

Antidote for the "they're all white trust fund kids" meme

AIDS activists protest in New York's Grand Central Station Thursday, Sept. 2, 2004, on the final day of the...

Posted Thursday September 2, 2004 at 12:12 PM | Full Post

New Get Your War On

Click on the image for the rest....

Posted Thursday September 2, 2004 at 9:46 AM | Full Post

Not Godwin's Law

Wietold Riedel is well aware of the history of the part of the world where he was born. Read tonight's...

Posted Thursday September 2, 2004 at 12:21 AM | Full Post

Phrase of the day

Scooter Goons. Also, can someone explain why I still have helicopters flying low over my apartment building at 23rd and...

Posted Thursday September 2, 2004 at 12:10 AM | Full Post

Antidote for the "they attacked a policeman on a scooter" people

The NY Daily News, not exactly a left-wing paper -- they talk about Bush's hard-knuckled approach after 9/11 rather than...

Posted Wednesday September 1, 2004 at 11:04 PM | Full Post

A beautiful protest from Fernando Suarez del Solar

I can't find a better description of this, so I'm stretching fair use a bit to give you the whole...

Posted Wednesday September 1, 2004 at 8:21 PM | Full Post

National Review: Genocide, it's a good thing

They are promoting a book (on Islam) by the spokesman for Bosnian Serb war criminal Radovan Karadzic. Yes, the one...

Posted Wednesday September 1, 2004 at 7:20 PM | Full Post

ACT UP interrupts Andrew Card speech at convention

I bet the security people are embarrassed... AP story with video. Watch ACT UP's site for further updates. It should...

Posted Wednesday September 1, 2004 at 2:38 PM | Full Post

Speaking of the First Amendment...

Speaking of the First Amendment, Newsday says the police are losing it. A woman was arrested for holding a sign...

Posted Wednesday September 1, 2004 at 12:19 AM | Full Post