18 July 2005

  • New York's currently: turned the machines back on
  • Matthew Cooper confirms Rove as the first to reveal the CIA officer's identity to him.
  • Death toll from Saturday's suicide bombing in Musayyib, south of Baghdad, reaches 100.
  • How the White House wanted to steer the Iraqi elections, and how Allawi stuck around as a candidate for as long as he did.
  • Armed with a sword and a shotgun, man defaces statue at Queens church, wounds two police officers.
  • Saddam Hussein trial ready to begin; the former dictator faces the death penalty.
  • Turning a rock band into a musical is the thing to do, and there go the Smiths.
  • New Harry Potter book breaks publishing records, sells 6.9 million copies in first day--a phenomenal oddity of feats.
  • How to fleece the NYC Medicaid program, by the doctors, patients, and every related medical service in the boroughs.
  • Ali G spotted on the 4 train in Brooklyn last week. The what, where? Know your trains.
  • Oddly, novel about a terrorist attack in London was released on July 7 and London Underground bomb training was going on at the same time as the actual blasts.
  • Self-recruitment and self-radicalization feed terrorism in even the most quaint of suburbs, in the most unexpected of areas.
  • Filming the West Village of the bohemians, before the invasion of renters with savings accounts.
  • More on the new Galactica: "Ruthlessly principled and deeply religious, the Cylons have been compared by fans and critics both to Al Qaeda and to the evangelical right."
  • New line of greeting cards for adulterers to be released, apparently just in time.
  • The sound of crunching apples: Making art for nutrition's sake.
  • "Baby needs milk," "doniker," "key to the midway," and other useful carny lingo.
  • One of the truest statements ever made is, "All the World Loves a Strong Man." How to perform strong man stunts.
  • Carson Ellis has fresh new prints of old dilapidated houses, cars for sale.
  • Play the Conversation Game to find out what's most important to you, and to decide what it is you want to create.
  • In the fall of 1988, I took a five-week vacation and set out on a long-thought-about project--to actually walk every block of every street in Manhattan.