Is it just me, or should the news on WNYC have addressed the cause of the blast, even to say the cause is unknown? That's what we all want to know. Thank goodness for CNN.
Why I love Roger Ebert: Yes, I take notes during the movies. I can't always read them, but I persist in hoping that I can. During a movie like House of D, I jot down words I think might be useful in the review. Peering now at my
My contribution to the April CD Mix of the Month Club was Untrammeled Adoration Considered as 39 Projectiles of Transparent Blue Corundum: A Rock Opera, a cheeky collection of 39 tracks mixed tightly to fit on a single CD.
Or, how we and several good friends spent our weekend: (Hi, ❦bobhowe!)
I keep flogging the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards here, so I hope you'll forgive another mention. We were listening to Weekend Edition Saturday on NPR the other morning when suddenly Scott Simon began interviewing one of this year's portfolio winners, Amanda Gotera. She reads a
Who else wonders if "the unification of all Christians" is a euphemism for "Inquisition"? (It's been said that ol' Ratty looks like Harlan Ellison, but I'd say here he's looking more like Norman Spinrad.)
Are we really so illiterate as a city that the Daily News has to call Pope Benedict "the 16th" instead of "XVI"? God. (Reminds me of the joke, c. 1992, about the upper crusty couple who go out to see that new Spike Lee film—Malcolm
Since I've just returned the signed contract, I assume I can announce that a personal essay of mine, "The Missionary Imposition," will be appearing in the upcoming issue of Matthew Kressel's zine Sybil's Garage. Holy cow, but there's a great
On the front page of the Arts section in today's New York Times is a nice story on the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, which some of you may have seen already. It begins: Student Winners Follow the FamousIn 1932, a senior at Erasmus Hall High School in
I'm not sure what everyone is so upset about. Personally, I think John Cardinal Ratzenberger will make a splendid pope. Long live Clifford XVI!
As a new version of The Amityville Horror makes its way toward the big screen, it's instructional to be reminded that we do have a pretty good idea of what really happened in that storied house on Long Island.
I went to the post office on 34th Street between Park and Lex this morning to mail some parcels overseas. I had forgotten that today is Tax Day, and that a decree had gone out from Caesar Georgius that all the world must come unto the USPS to tax the
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