Archives for March 2007

At first hearing I felt like I was eavesdropping on Shrub's unconscious, the kind of fearful bullying that renounces both Baker's bi-partisan Iraq "Study" Group recommendations and Gates's pleading to close Gitmo -- why get rid of Rumsfeld when his hotel managers keep raping the Geneva conventions? … [Read more...]

TWO NEW PODCASTS POSTED The first is old already (12/01/06), holiday box set recommentations including Fats Waller, Bob Wills, Buddy Guy and Gram Parsons. The second is from yesterday, Guilty Pleasures, alongside Renee Graham. Prescott gave it up privately that hers includes Madonna's … [Read more...]

OR WHY WE LOVE THE TIMES Houdini's grave to be opened - but what will they find there? Which begs the response: "Geraldo Rivera" -- Harry Shearer … [Read more...]

A Story That Could Be True If you were exchanged in the cradle and your real mother died without ever telling the story then no one knows your name, and somewhere in the world your father is lost and needs you but you are far away. He can never find how true you are, how ready. When the great wind … [Read more...]

You could feel TV's ground shift the other night as Eddie Izzard launched The Riches on FX, his coolly ambitious satire. The humor was jagged, lit by violence, the characters hungry and gulping down plot, the tone steely-eyed anarchic. There was Minnie Driver, a con on parole, sobbing, throwing her … [Read more...]

Brooks keeps showing up: on the latest NYRB subscription dropout card, and you have to wonder: what demo does this caricature appeal to? The 75-and-over crowd? Those lecherous old poets? Does this ancient ingenue actually sell magazines? Does anybody write in saying "OMIGawd, I never realized this … [Read more...]

THE REVOLUTION WILL BE BLOGGED We be thumping now anyway: Riley Rock Index now features a weekly rss feed, which works on your mobile. And next week: Abbey Road podcast. … [Read more...]