Zimbabwe farmers evacuate as mobs take over, with federal approval.Another suicide bomber strikes Israel, injuring 15.The secret of Wintour's confidence: Teen Vogue, unlike all other teenage girl magazines, begins accepting breast-enlargement ads, claiming teenagers know difference between ads and ads-nots.School principals fear the
Bush backs partial stem cell funding.Israel strikes back with occupation of PLO hq in E. Jerusalem.Heat wave pushes metro-area energy to utmost limits.Mother of real "bubble-boy" calls for boycott on new Disney film.Print is alive! Dan Rather claims tv-journalism too light-
U.S. broke child-porn e-business Landslide and arrested subscribers.Palestian suicide-bomber killed at least thirteen people in Jerusalem pizza parlor.China admits AIDS crisis by sending health officials into the field.The Times has a thin-coverage article on digital art, but at least mentions Jon Haddock&
Abrasive? Anarchic? Just nuts? I don’t know and I don’t think they ever knew, either—or cared—and in that may be what makes this 1985 release such a worthwhile listen: it’s wholly original. Quite seriously, in an age of reprocessed/recycled culture and music (that being,
I love end-of-the-world/paranoia/disaster movies – you know the ones: Planet of the Apes (the original, thanks), The Omega Man, Soylent Green (why these all have Charlton Heston in them I’ll never know…). Well, I am very disturbed to have to report this, but there is
Federal judges dismantle federal snooping software on their computers.Gore Vidal, convinced of secret police, calls McVeigh a hero.NYTimes, in a very strange move, calls Bette Midler a "homo-name."Salon used Aeron chairs to measure dot-com delirium; readers responded, citing the chairs as better than
Euro RSCG declares "Dark, leathered big-hair preppies cooking fatless beef" IN, "Blond, anorexic models in tweed, playing video games and using VCRs" OUT.Microsoft Chief asks to have it "given up" for him, imitates coked-up monkey.Italian scientist to impregnate eight British
Palestine rejects Israeli's most-wanted list after ten people wounded near Israel's Defense Ministry.Nearly 10,000 inmates in NY have Hepatitis C.Bush takes month-long vacation in Texas, calling it "Heartland Tour."In the world of recent lay-offs, multi-tasking becomes
"The Big Sleep" edition"You're not very tall, are you?": U.S. man to amputate legs with homemade guillotine on Web broadcast."Not bad looking. Oh you probably know it.": Gore prepares his re-entry into politics and grows a beard while
Overheard conversation on Bedford Avenue: Dude 1: You, like, had an existential crisis when I left and now that I’m back, you’re having another one. Dude 2: Yeah…true.
