21 August 2003

New York's currently: gonna make me sweat

U.S. warned a week ago of Baghdad U.N. bombing.

Former radical fugitive Kathy Boudin, convicted for her role the 1981 armored-car robbery in Rockland County, N.Y., granted parole.

Domino sugar factory on East River to cease much of its operations.

The Internet Museum of Flexi/Cardboard/Oddity Records, including the Sassy Magazine flexi-disc of R.E.M.'s version of Syd Barrett's 'Dark Globe.'

'And my dark side, my shadow, my lower companion is now in the back room blowing up balloons for kids' parties.' Quotes from Gary Busey, with accompanying commentary. Related: Quigley, the movie. [via tt]

David Bowie previews new album in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.

The headline you never wanted to see: 'Schwarzenegger Vows Not To Raise Taxes.'

'When the Lebanese frontrunner was eliminated in the semifinals last week, angry fans in the audience pelted each other with chairs or anything else they could find, and the two remaining contestants fainted. Scores of people took to the streets in Lebanon to protest.' American Idol in the Middle East.

Laura Mill viciously rips Chuck Palahniuk's head off, finds very little.

The boys from Seattle recommend getting high and ending up with a hangover on the appropriately titled 'Dumb.' Family.org's review of Nirvana's In Utero. More here.

Random Interest: Places in New York that need bathrooms. Ham and Cheese Bar? Chicken Rings? The school lunch menu in Hampshire County. Interview with Campbell Scott. Waiting for Godot: The Interactive Adventure. The secret In-N-Out Burger menu. 'The Fucking Potato.' How to lie in Iraq, by Brian Eno. How to levitate. Good reads at the Land-Grant College Review. Happy Anniversary to Heather. Rock stars with their parents in 1971. Will Sergeant of Echo & the Bunnymen is a brilliant eBayer. The Food Section. Magnetbox is chock full of good things.