ESPECIALLY IF YOU RESENTED JOCKS ALL YOUR LIFE Don't know what it looks like to insiders, but to us plebes this past week felt like Bush went off the rails for real. OK, first: name your personal legal counsel to the Supreme Court, and make it an EARLY MORNING announcement to upstage the signing in … [Read more...]
PARIS HILTON SO NEVER EVEN DATED CARSON DALY
QUOTE OF THE MONTH From Rob Sheffield's Pop Life column in Rolling Stone (not worth visiting since you can't search by byline) on Tara Reid's E! series, her "reality" show: "Somewhere in the sky, Ernest hemingway is trying to piece his face back together so he can shoot it off again..." … [Read more...]
TON OF PRODUCT TO CATCH UP WITH…
From WNYC's Soundcheck here. Honk if you're oriental. SCORSESE'S DYLAN This is from Monday; if you missed this, pick it up. I coulda been harder on it, the Tom Paine Award speech is pretty much fudged over, as are all the drugs. But this is inspired filmmaking, great use of source material, every … [Read more...]
INFINITY GOES UP ON TRIAL
My No Direction Home review will go live from this page at app. 12:50 pm today, watch this space for the link later this week. Don't miss Scorsese's Dylan tonight and tomorrow. TOMORROW Beatle roundup on WNYC's Soundcheck 2-3 pm. TOMORROW NIGHT TUESDAY, SEPT 27, 7:00pm (NOT 7:30!) with Rolling … [Read more...]
NEW KID IN TOWN
Yglesias on Roberts: Say what you will about Roberts, but he clearly wasn't very forthcoming in his testimony before the committee. Judiciary Democrats repeatedly objected to that, but they -- and especially their ranking member -- turn around and vote for him anyway, then those objections lose all … [Read more...]
I STILL MISS SOMEONE
"An antiwar speech by Cindy Sheehan, the mother of an American soldier killed in Iraq, was cut short yesterday after the organizer of the event was arrested and police officers confiscated his audio equipment. The claps and cheers that had greeted Ms. Sheehan's arrival at the rally in Union Square … [Read more...]
FORMER GREY LADY CHORTLES
Judge Roberts, Meet Our Expansive Senators Honestly if the Dems can't do any better than this... what a sham. I liked the word the Slate commentator used: Roberts was running a "clinic" on how to avoid questions. Read Garry Wills in the NYRB on Fringe Government, and don't say he didn't tell us. … [Read more...]
“WHEN WE COULD BE DIVING FOR PEARLS…”
Too bad NPR has thrown Shearer into its slagheap of tired satirists, his Crescent City show learned me more about the town than anything else in the past couple of weeks... That one SONG taught me more... It's the Bush limbo dance: how LOW can you GO, creating unlikely heroes along the way... This … [Read more...]
BRUSHED METAL GETS THE BOOT
Tuesday, 7 September 2005, 9:30 AM Pacific A Lexus SC 430 convertible speeds down a sunny street in Cupertino. The top is down. Brushed Metal is behind the wheel, stabbing at the buttons on his mobile phone. We hear the connection ringing. Brushed Metal’s agent, Mike, answers... … [Read more...]
REPOSE OF THE DAMNED
A hand-me-down from that whole Marie Antionette fracas, a notorious joke called The Aristocrats entered comedy culture like a virus, and mutated into an obscene way to unwind after shows in the wee hours, when pissing on the audience tasted like sweet revenge. The tired blue-collar gag itself works … [Read more...]
MAYBE CLICKING WILL HELP
IT'S OFFICIAL Flickr is addictive. … [Read more...]
“LABOR” DAY
...We'd hope that the states of Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana will not undertake to rebuild them they way they were. The era of easy motoring is over now, and to rebuild suburban sprawl would be a double tragedy. … [Read more...]
GLOBS GLOBS GLOBS
Can you hear them singing...? 1. Eschaton Reliable even in the off-season. First recommended to me by Dan the man (at Disc Diggers). 2. TMFTML Back and baaaaaaad... 3. ROCKS OFF For obvious reasons, and for Ian Stewart. 4. RUDE PUNDIT "Sweet Foucaultian nightmare..." 5. ZOILUS: CARL … [Read more...]
COULD YOU PLEASE BE A BIT MORE BRITISH?
REAL LIFE AD COPY Are you still a wax virgin? (BBC 1 TV) Beat the French on their home turf! (OTB horses) Big flashy films for your grubby little houses. (billboard) WILL YOU GO TO LUNCH! Lindsay Posner on why David Mamet is great, warts and all: Perhaps in no other writer's work can the … [Read more...]
GLOB SLATERNLY
WKD DIVIDEND I misread the blog date as today, when actually, it's next week, so here's a BONUS post: Filmoculous: constantly replenished links by category... James Wolcott: a writer finds his medium... Pluck RSS Feed of the Day: latest and greatest... memeorandum: news as clusterlinks... TV … [Read more...]