21 October 2002

New York's currently: evanescent

Hussein sets free thousands of convicts.

Jewish settlers harass all the Palestinians out of town in Khirbat Yanun.

U.S. used unwitting U.N. weapon inspectors as spies in Iraq.

I have this strange 'obsession' with Dave Matthews, so much so I feel that one day I will marry him. His voice turns me on, even the sound of his name for that matter. I want so badly to have sex (preferably with him!), but I feel no man matches up with him. Help!

Ex-Marine goes on crime spree from Jersey to Maine, labeled a 'copycat' killer with similarities to the D.C.-area sniper. Related: Manhunt for sniper is the largest of its kind. Related: Newsweek label 'The Tarot Card Killer' just not catching on.

Musician Ryan Adams not only hates being called Bryan Adams, he also hates Tennessee rednecks (scroll down to 'You're not going to...').

Even in Anaheim, home of Disneyland, the Rally Monkey is eclipsing Mickey Mouse in popularity. World Series ignites monkey-fever. Related: Robin Williams entertains troops.

Jesse Jackson tells Church, re: Colin Powell, 'He's not on our team. If he wins, Trent Lott wins ... If he wins, poor folks lose.'

On a global scale, I'm still in the majority, but a lot of people out there have been present on occasions when Phil and Joanne weren't wearing clothes. Naked swimming contested in Vermont.

Kenneth Koch's (best book: Hotel Lambosa) last interview, with Dean Young (best book: Strike Anywhere).

Every crack we make against our investment banker friends is entirely true, warranted, and not up to snuff: Some laid-off Wall Streeters have even adopted a name for themselves: the 405 Club, a reference to an evening last year when a group of unemployed investment bankers jestingly tried to pay an $800 dinner bill at Craft, in the Flatiron district, by signing over their $405 unemployment checks--the maximum benefit offered by the Labor Department.

Deborah Treisman succeeds Bill Buford as the New Yorker's fiction editor, expected to publish more interesting stories, more women.

Yes, it's an offer for a digital organizer, but still.