LEARNING THE GAME or: How John Lennon Learned to Stop Worrying and Love His Inner Geek Perfect Sound Forever LONG BEFORE "POST-MODERN" became pure jargon, Buddy Holly put quotes around his "normalcy" to disarm rock machismo. Holly, the "King of the Sixth Grade," hiccupped his hormones out loud, … [Read more...]
Archives for September 2006
WHO’S MORE PARANOID
NIXON... OR BUSH? HERE AND NOW story aired today: interview with David Leaf, co-director of THE US VS JOHN LENNON. … [Read more...]
PARENTHESES OF THE WEEK
ARCHLY ANTI-STARCH "I appreciated the relative anonymity of the actors (one doesn’t want recognizable faces in trash), but what is Samuel L. Jackson doing in “Snakes on a Plane”?" --David Denby in the New Yorker. … [Read more...]
DEATHLESS EQUATIONS
WHERE THE PAST PEEKS INTO THE FUTURE "Archimedes Palimpsest," a 10th-century parchment document, has been rotting for hundreds of years, besides being erased and painted over numerous times. And lost. And rediscovered. On August 3, Uwe Bergmann, a physicist at the Stanford Linear Accelerator … [Read more...]
Hey Lauer: WHAT ABOUT THE SAUDIS
MORE DREAMS OF JOE HILL Mother Jones has posted an Iraq war timeline that's even better in its interactive edition: Lie By Lie IF I WERE AN ASSIGNMENT EDITOR Write me a story about how gas prices have fallen by as much as 20 percent in the past month, and do a comparison of gas price … [Read more...]
FACETIOUSLY: VOWELS IN ORDER
HATE TO AGREE WITH THESE GUYS Tierney in Friday's Times: Compared with past threats — like Communist sociopaths with nuclear arsenals — Al Qaeda’s terrorists are a minor problem. They certainly don’t justify the hyperbolic warnings that America’s “existence” or “way of life” is in jeopardy, or … [Read more...]
CATCHING UP W/EMMYS
Let us be frank: godless sodomites is a COMPLIMENT in this day and age, ESPECIALLY if you don't get it. But we hasten to add: Annette Bening wuz ROBBED. (And we ADORE Helen Mirren. AND Jeremy Irons.) … [Read more...]