Monthly Archives: September 2006

Here are some of the reasons why. I used to think it was more noble and important to stay here and try to change it, but now it seems like the best way to go is refuse to participate in … Continue reading →

i know, i know. Urge.com, currently seen only on Windows Media, is unavailable to all New Yorkers because nobody in New York uses PCs, so the myth goes — as the New Yorker put it this week, “if you have … Continue reading →

I GOT PLAID The Northumberland Tartan, variously known as the Border or Shepherd Plaid, is also closely linked to the Percy family, forming the official dress of the Duke of Northumberland’s piper. Originally worn by shepherds tending their flocks in … Continue reading →

Today’s cultural breaths: Joan Didion knows more about Dick Cheney than he probably does, having read 18 books on the matter for her NY Review of Books essay. Still, she cannot shed light into his motivation, which stumps me and … Continue reading →

“You looked so cool DJing last night,” Mo told me the next morning, sitting in the director’s chair in the kitchen. “You kept sticking out your butt and doing this” [makes hoochie-coochie motion with hands and shoulders] Mo missed the … Continue reading →

One troubling aspect of taking semi-professional dance classes five-six times a week is the small faction of students whose apparent aspiration is toward the “fantasy” of the hip-hop dancer, as discerned by the gestural booty rubs that accompany a fixed … Continue reading →

for re-winning her seat on the Bellingham, WA Court of Appeals, on her merits. “”I’m just pleased as punch,” Becker said Tuesday night after hearing the results. “I really am grateful of (the) level of support and I will do … Continue reading →

Chan Marshall of Cat Power on how Mary J Blige and Oprah got her through rehab. “I never really noticed [my audiences] liked me before,” she notes, stamping out her cig. “I was so enwounded with self-hatred and self-denial and … Continue reading →

Adventurous, wealthy Sugarcubes fan to finance our trip to Iceland this November. I cook you enchiladas, teach you Bjorklike choreography, and invigorate your mind with my deeply awesome mind spiral of the mind. Interested parties, dial J for fire ASAP.

The band, not a running count of the time they spend wishing they were Neu!: May God grant us the serenity to accept the things we cannot change, the courage to change the things we can, and the wisdom to … Continue reading →