A recent New Yorker "Talk of the Town" item: Some earnest artists made a snowglobe that contains a tiny John Ashcroft and plays "White Christmas." It passed through many hands, and now it belongs to …
I'd advise you to avoid catching a cold just before Moving Day. It's just so darned inconvenient. Yesterday I started moving stuff in earnest to my new place. I stopped by beforehand and ended up …
I read Midnight's Children. I read Cryptonomicon. And now I've read Michel Faber's The Crimson Petal and the White. And now I say to you that a modern author who dazzles you with his witty, …
I'm moving soon. Argh, I feel burned out already. I have to be out of my current place by Thursday night. I'm borrowing my sister's sedan Tuesday and Wednesday, and hope to be all but …
These last few nights I've been dreaming West Wing characters. Yet consultation between G.W. Bush and Leo McGarrity is less plausible than last night's invention, a marriage between Britney Spears and Sam Seaborn. You see, …
From Cam:Blogger Hacked! If you use Blogger, you need to change your server password RIGHT NOW! Whoever has hacked into Blogger has changed most of Blogger account passwords, so you are unable to get into …
A new staffer's name is Gideon. I keep thinking of him as "Gideon Wainwright," because of the Supreme Court case Gideon v. Wainwright. He's okay with that.
Bill Maher, in his great new book When You Ride Alone You Ride With bin Laden, makes several good points and clever turns of phrase. Example: he refers to "The Axis -- the original, not …
Jon Carroll refused to speak to me in my dream. Why, Jon? Why?
Two analogies. First, Leonard pointed me to a weblog whose author (allegedly) lives in Baghdad and criticizes the regime. I find that implausible and fascinating. I don't want to link to it for fear that …
