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Because Colson Whitehead wrote it. And Colson Whitehead also wrote The Intuitionist, which is a fantastic book that crams together sci-fi conceits with noir stylings and meditations on being black in America and manages to give all these disparate things room to breathe and thrive without losing sight of the story or the characters. [...]
Holy God if you have a child under five years of age and you are thinking of bringing her rambunctious spastic seat-banging self to a harrowing and bloodless R-rated movie (AKA a PG-13 flick), please go to a elementary-school classroom and see how teachers deal with children that don’t sit still AND TAKE SOME GODDAMN [...]
Band member Garth Hudson’s 2001 (and now re-released) solo album The Sea to the North had inauspicious beginnings. Richard Wall became fascinated with the improvised and — and extended — intro to “Chest Fever” that was released as “Genetic Method” on Rock of Ages. The piece is an amazing example of Hudson’s skill, meandering (as [...]
It's a Google maps hack and it works like a happy dream. Click and drag around the world map to expose webcam sites, images from which appear in thumbnails to the left. So as you click and drag around the world, you see daylight, twilight, night, dawn and daylight again, in exotic and exciting locations around the world. It's a laugh in the dark, a mad scream, a cheery bleary masquerade of mirth and...
The struggle between the Cambodian Buddhist Society and the town of Newtown, Connecticut, has now become a First Amendment issue. The most recent standoff took place last week before the Newtown Zoning Board of Appeals as the Buddhist society sought to have a cease-and-desist order issued by the town's zoning enforcement officer overturned. The order — which was issued on April 16 after neighbors...
The site is called Salvador Dali Fakes . On the page I link to here , the author discusses Park West Gallery, the company discussed in a recent NYTimes.com article. The author specifically asks, " Where do Park West Gallery Dali Prints Come From ?" Read on as the author follows a trail of provenance, from certificates of authenticity to specific collections to a letter by Dali attesting to his signing...
I want to start a business wherein musicians pay me to help their albums sell mad amounts of copies. I may not know much about the industry, the business that those IN the business call “the business,” marketing trends, or really much — but I DO know that there are certain obstacles out there, and [...]
See NYTimes.com's article today on the particularly piquant aroma of buyer's remorse that sets in when the bags are unpacked, the hangover wears off and people learn that the print they'd purchased at a cruise art auction ain't all it was made out to be . From the Times article: Perhaps most disturbing, (this particular auction victim) learned from The Official Catalog of the Graphic Works of Salvador...
Okay, here’s the deal. I haven’t installed a statcounter on this site, because I didn’t want to be motivated by traffic or any such low concerns; I wanted to create a site where lots of people all weighed in on all kinds of topics, free-for-all, wide-ranging, funny, weird, interesting, etc. Two things have stood in my way, [...]
I'd been thinking about the way bacterial colonies can be related to human social structures, and in doing some research came across Dr. Steven Kurtz's incredible ordeal with the US government. In 2004 Dr. Kurtz and his wife, Hope, were working in their Buffalo, New York home on a project for an exhibit at Mass MoCA related to the genetic engineering of crops. They maintained a small lab with petri...
Read this http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/8336964?MSNHPHMA story and explain how the boy could fracture his own skull! Oh, wait. They meant to write that the boy’s skull was fractured at the baseball game. The writer just didn’t understand the meaning of the word, nor how to use it. Amazing, and almost as bad as the writing at the Metrowest Daily [...]
What brilliant guy! I own three seasons of Curb Your Enthusiasm. You can say that the anti-cancer industry has become self-perpetuating, and I have reason to believe there's some truth to that. But things have been improving on the cancer front, and the only way they're going to continue is with the help of organizations like Stand Up 2 Cancer . Watch the spot, hit the link and learn what you can...
I love the place, had a number of great times there. But they sent me this press release today and it just sets my teeth on edge: 21: Contemporary Art at the Brooklyn Museum to Open September 19, 2008 -- Media Preview September 17, 2008, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. So far so good. Follow along, people: More than forty works from the Brooklyn Museum's expanding collection of contemporary art will go on long-term...
