I’ve been recently re-reading David Sedaris’s Me Talk Pretty One Day, a book that my friend Dmitri gave me in Italy two years ago and had me laughing out loud – crying even – on a crowded beach, lots of Italian hunks and hunk-esses disturbed by the barking
Last night, upon seeing the new iPhoto ad on television, Melissa looks over at me and asks, ‘Why don’t we use iPhoto?’ ‘Because you have to be running OS X to use it.’ ‘Why aren’t we running OS X?’ ‘I don’t know.’ ‘Well, it’s my computer
Bush plans to pay his way through a recession and a war, with a total spending increase of nine percent. Cheney refuses to hand over energy policy documents for investigation into White House energy proposals. Presidential speeches composed in Starbucks, says speechwriter. Hillary Clinton spends 90 percent of her day
...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead member Neil Busch takes the five questions and mentions his friends’ troubled love lives.
House forces vote on campaign finance bill against soft money in wake of Enron collapse. U.S. may cut ties with Arafat as advisers reassess Middle East policy. India tests short-range nuclear missile, says good for security; Pakistan sees deterrent to stability. China finds opportunity in war on terrorism
A giant Ferris wheel is being taken down in Paris’s Place de la Concorde after the mayor said it had overstayed its welcome. ‘When I heard it was coming down, I thought it was a pity,’ Elaine Thompson, a British woman who lives in Paris and was walking past
Bush asks for massive defense boost: annual budget of $380B, much larger than Congress expected. White House expects to run $106B deficit this year, in wild, frothing, ape-like swing from last year's estimation for this year of $231B surplus. Enron chief quits, citing federal inquiries as too
The Emerald Down harnesses an obvious love for the shoegazer scene of the early ‘90s, matching it with more modern songwriting possibilities. Truly, these songs sound much like Slowdive, et al, but are far, far more structurally interesting and developed (see especially ‘7AM,’ which twists and morphs to utter disbelief
India blames Pakistan for yesterday's shooting in Calcutta; FBI holds off on judgment. Supreme Court rules states have limits on extending confinement on sexual criminals after sentences expire. FTC plans national "Do Not Call" list to protect Americans against telemarketers; telemarketers say it infringes on free
This morning while exiting the subway terminal, a man, well-dressed – to get straight to the point, quite normal-looking – was ascending the stairs next to me. Jamming his way up as quickly as he could, he tripped halfway up the stairs and came too near permanently affixing the middle
