Tuesday, June 02, 2009

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A Man and His Sushi Chef WaPo One photo shows a chubby-cheeked boy with an impish grin. Former classmates at a Swiss boarding schoo...
Wednesday, March 18, 2009

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Camerooooooon The Pope, the president and the wife .
Tuesday, March 17, 2009

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David Gergen: The Bridge to Nowhere Above is my book proposal in its entirety for an unauthorized biography of the great middliator. No pu...

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Rome, Germany "For years, Il Duce has been adjuring his subjects to "like like lions." In Italy, lions customarily live in ...
Monday, June 09, 2008

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"Paris, Germany" The startling but once-upon-a-time true chapter heading in Janet Flanner's World , a superb book of previousl...
Wednesday, May 07, 2008

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Can We Just Arrest The Whole University, Please Bunch of students at San Diego State get arrested in a big drug bust . Several were getting...
Sunday, January 27, 2008

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Remembrances of Things Current The poster in the bus shelter's glass wall for How She Move reminds me that one of the scariest phrases ...
Wednesday, January 23, 2008

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The Widow Gyllenhaal Something funny happens midway through The Year of Magical Thinking , Joan Didion's memoir of her husband's sud...
Sunday, January 06, 2008

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The Transvaluation of All Kilos From Ultimate Fitness , Gina Kolata's pretty good book about the history and science of exercise: ...
Monday, December 10, 2007

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Night-Stand Petty Thievery and Loan-Sharking to Cripples: A Christmas Story This short article about janitors-above-the-law and the perman...
Sunday, December 02, 2007

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Paging Annie Proulx More gay men describe sexual encounters with U.S. Sen. Craig Tom Russell, now 48, is a former Nampa resident who lives i...
Sunday, September 30, 2007

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New Leads in Missing Topless Florida Beauty? On a very badly done (poorly moderated and with even dumber lawyers/cops than usual) Fox News s...
Tuesday, August 28, 2007

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Misconstrued, Screwed and Tattooed Am I first? They always seem to be the fathers of three children. Or married at least to women who have ...
Friday, August 10, 2007

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The Royal Family In an article about the assassination of an Oakland journalist, the WaPo alludes to the faulty dynastic succession structu...
Saturday, August 04, 2007

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Bridge Surveys Bush Collapse
Sunday, July 01, 2007

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Sickos Two Doctors Held Over Bomb Attacks Two doctors were among five people being held as terror suspects last night after the bomb plots i...
Sunday, June 24, 2007

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Homework and Peppermints The Strawberry Alarm Clock were not an interesting band, that's a plain fact. Still, there was more going on ...
Tuesday, May 29, 2007

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Salvador Dollar I'm guessing there are no girlfriend problems with this one .
Tuesday, May 08, 2007

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Some Excellent Names on These Lads Perhaps not such excellent brains within them though: ( Mons & Crits ) ...The FBI arrested at least f...
Friday, May 04, 2007

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Kinky-Hearted Ho(nky)'s Kinks in DNA increase risk of heart disease in whites
Tuesday, April 17, 2007

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Uhm ( ABC News ) ...Some news accounts have suggested that Cho had a history of antidepressant use, but senior federal officials tell ABC Ne...
Friday, March 30, 2007

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Futch, In Name and Nature Looks like events are about to overtake, and somewhat interfere with, Principal Frank Futch's eternal coffee b...
Thursday, March 29, 2007

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The Dead Woman in the Bathtub of Sand on a Balcony Near Tokyo Except for the bathtub and the sand the the balcony and Tokyo, I expect to go ...
Tuesday, March 06, 2007

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Mrs. Drudge That faggot (joke!) Matt Drudge has barely mentioned his gal (joke!) pal Ann Coulter's CPAC F-bomb (the other F-bomb) and ...
Tuesday, February 06, 2007

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Astronap Charged With Kidnaut Attempt Behold the most soul-stirring list of accumulated headlines in Google News history . Behold the ravage...
Monday, January 29, 2007

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So Many Mysteries, So Few Good Men From Writers At Work : The Paris Review Interviews, Second Series (which, if the others are all this g...
Monday, January 22, 2007

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Music Notes: The Messrs Phillips and The Pisser Crash Mr. Presley's first recordings were in the Memphis studio of Sam Phillips. The B...
Sunday, January 14, 2007

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Abandoned Butcher Shop A half-smashed white-glass sign I pass nearly every day reads: TONY & SAM's Kosher & Gentile Killin...
Tuesday, January 02, 2007

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Solace for the Unfamous (You, and Only You, Know Who You Are) Beautiful, sober Bill, the world's most muscular and tatooed used-booksto...
Sunday, December 31, 2006

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And I'll Raise You a Former Ventriloquist from Osakka Whose Ruminative MOR Reminds Me of Rosie-Era David Lasley Greatest best-of-list te...
Monday, December 25, 2006

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Two Christmas Thoughts I didn't know the Dolly Parton song Hard Candy Christmas till a few weeks ago, though it appears to haven come o...
Monday, December 04, 2006

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Skip to the Loop, My Darkling I'm not a big fan of clothes manufactured to look wrinkled, ripped, faded and beat (though on the right pe...
Monday, November 27, 2006

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Relativity in Our Time Time moves slowest when you want someone to know that you are ignoring them but not enough time has built up for this...
Wednesday, November 22, 2006

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Wrong Dennis Cooper's blog was hacked, hijacked and possibly obliterated some time last week. All traffic to the site is currently...
Sunday, November 12, 2006

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This Is Pop Trolling through the music blogs and dl'ing indiscriminately, of a rainy autumn afternoon and evening, one (and in particula...
Saturday, November 04, 2006

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Methics or Out Through the In Door or The Surrationalist Manifesto There are few human beings with a higher estimate of their own ethical ...
Friday, November 03, 2006

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The Real Daily Show It's not the Viacom clips that make youtube worth it's google billions, or any of the other copyrighted crap tha...
Sunday, October 22, 2006

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The Undersigned As a child I was delighted by open letters in support or (more typically) decry* of cultural/political this or political/cul...
Thursday, October 19, 2006

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Henry James, William James and Jesse James Walk Into a Bar What mankind really needs is the adrenal equivalent of war.
Sunday, October 08, 2006

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I Hate Caption Contests But what do I win : So I'm talking to Foley--I always call him Flafol, you know, for Florida and Foley, just thi...
Sunday, October 01, 2006

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Scouting for Boys Funny prepositions in the news: ( Timesonline )... As recently as July 27, President Bush had hailed Mr Foley and other le...
Saturday, September 30, 2006

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Fearless Audience Slayer I believe the considerable thrills in this video come as much from the reaction to the kid's skills as the ski...
Thursday, September 21, 2006

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The Scaffold Critic Looks like Hollywoodland has cooked up another self-referential, mytho-prosaical blockbuster. I was talking to my frie...
Tuesday, September 19, 2006

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Electranetizens of the Day I found the WaPo A-section news-pix slide show unusually evocative today: Name of the Day Invention of the Day Th...
Sunday, September 17, 2006

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Odd Lede Verb-Choice In Our Time Today's strange verb, renew : STOCKHOLM , Sept. 17 — Sweden appeared set to sweep away 12 years of cent...
Saturday, September 16, 2006

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The Wet Locker Room Floors of France Or is it Canada? I can't believe the Corner hasn't linked this yet.
Sunday, September 10, 2006

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The Daybed Critic Fifty years ago I wrote here about the best New York City movies ever made. At that time I counted them as Rear Window , ...
Wednesday, August 30, 2006

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Argot Update Dizzy Fitches : the A&F clone army, aka the crombie zombies.
Saturday, August 26, 2006

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Smelly Billiot Story of a young boy in a Welsh mining town who discovers he can't dance at all. Not even a little bit. He's ugly a...
Sunday, August 20, 2006

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When Mediation Breaks Down JockoHomo's youtube playlist is extensive and various within certain limits. I will exhaust it over time. ...
Friday, August 18, 2006

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Sexed U Up I believe it is a settled point of the American language, settled through hugger-mugger plebiscite of 30,000,000 nimble-fingered ...

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I Loved the Lindbergh Baby and He Loved Me Catch me if you can, coppers. Sorry, Bruno. Behold the colorful story of our l'amour secret ...
Friday, August 11, 2006

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Feschrift in Honor of the English Language Our president speaks . His opening line: The recent arrests that our fellow citizens are now lea...
Tuesday, August 01, 2006

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Che's House Lands on Fidel, Raul Gets the Ruby Slippers Clinton is so promiscuous that Raul Castro must be gay. The likely as not ghost...
Sunday, July 30, 2006

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If Gertrude Stein Wrote Yahoo's Headlines for Yahoos as Gertrude Stein Lebanon asks Rice not to visit Lebanon
Thursday, July 27, 2006

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The Eastern Edge of Downtown Coleman vows help for dad cited for lewd conduct The 81-year-old father of U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman was cited for...
Sunday, July 23, 2006

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Drudge In Heat Drudge featured a link (with pix) to the News of the World's squalid expose of a recent George Michael sexual escapade ...
Saturday, July 22, 2006

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Mirror Berlin I see that spellbinding phrase almost every day. Rapidshare, the euro-colossus of twilight-market file sharing, most often di...

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Gloom, Doom, Rheum I read a book by Leonard Michaels a long time ago that took its title from Henry James's closing thought upon recou...
Tuesday, July 18, 2006

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If Paul Harvey Was Gay and Really Concise Pier Paolo Pasolini's gay uncle's German boyfriend was Marconi's dentist.
Monday, July 10, 2006

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We Are the Gambians Popbitch, the British music gossipist, had a group of blind items pertaining to the disreputable activities of various W...
Thursday, July 06, 2006

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The Buddhist Work Ethic Siddhartha will own Luther's ass when the timecard of all humanity finally gets punched, I'm thinking.
Thursday, June 29, 2006

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Why Does This Break My Heart? I know I know why it does, but I'm too lazy (and heartbroken, of course) to explain it to myself right no...
Wednesday, June 28, 2006

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Limbaugh's Hardon for Clinton Rush "Poppers" Limbaugh tells a joke which demonstrates the truism that we often hate those we ...
Tuesday, June 27, 2006

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Yale Is Latin For Gay A line I wish to preserve here in the anarchives.
Sunday, June 25, 2006

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The American Movie Musical: Its Rebirth and Redeath Most remarkable cinema dancing in fifty years or so (the stick toss alone would be wort...
Saturday, June 24, 2006

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Dinfinity and Reyond I really recommend the online radio built into the new version of AIM, the majestically meaninglessly named Triton . I ...
Friday, June 16, 2006

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He Seems Awake Inside to Me This may the greatest boy-lipsyncing-into-pc-cam video ever. But I've thought that about approximately fo...
Tuesday, June 13, 2006

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The Excess of Your Presence Is Requested I'm reading a biography of Pasolini. When I'm finished, Pier Paolo will be the first (and ...
Wednesday, June 07, 2006

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Important Props in American History I use my influence very sparingly now, as it is so mighty. But others recognize my dormant powers and p...
Sunday, May 28, 2006

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To the Dogwood Prince: A Poem in Chat u are a quitter pure and simple if dr moreau had that aint-gonna-happen attitude then things wouldn...
Saturday, May 20, 2006

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The Non-Herd Music Christopher Hitchens cited Kingsley Amis's Girl, 20 as equal in laughter stature to Evelyn Waugh's routinely pro...
Saturday, May 13, 2006

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Your Jeweled Axles Gleaming in the Sun Three selections from Translations From the Chinese by Arthur Waley (copyright 1919 and 1941) from T...
Sunday, May 07, 2006

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Harlot's Goss I was a hospitality suite hooker for my country. My company, I mean. Same dif. It was great. Dusty Foggo, don't go!...
Sunday, April 30, 2006

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Captioner Earns His Pay Either Steven Colbert is a Republican and George W. Bush is a Libertarian, or Yahoo (Reuters?) thinks we're all...
Tuesday, April 25, 2006

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Yoo Hoo LA Times , Epsilon Malarkey the Gnostic Pope Here, Got Something to Say, Hit Me Back Gnostics Find Affirmation in Gospel of Judas .....
Monday, April 24, 2006

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Michael Berens, Found Satirist I'm knee deep in the last volume of Bruce Wagner's cellphone trilogy, Still Holding , so I'm alre...
Friday, April 21, 2006

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Transamerica ( Washington )...In recent months, McClellan had told people he enjoyed his job and wanted to stay for the long term. He said W...
Wednesday, April 19, 2006

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Heroes of Decorumclasty Without betraying any confidences (I believe and hope), I can relate that the parents of a twenty-five year old son ...
Saturday, April 15, 2006

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In French and Russian Bistros CEOs say how you treat a waiter can predict a lot about character ... And beware of anyone who pulls out the p...
Tuesday, April 11, 2006

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The New Adventures of Tom Sawyer While googling through images of paper dolls in search of a graphic I might lift for wholly charitable purp...
Monday, April 10, 2006

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Escapee From 300 Film Scripts, And Or the Future, Apprehended on White House Lawn WASHINGTON - A screaming intruder made it onto the front ...
Tuesday, April 04, 2006

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JuneJuneJune: Mark of the Beast A headline from Australia's Herald Sun : Terrorist S11 plotter yells curse At first I thought this was...
Saturday, April 01, 2006

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Tubsext The Washington Post doesn't have to hit me over the head with a rolled up copy of Inches for me to figure out what's going...
Friday, March 31, 2006

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From a Bathroom Reader (Approximately) Imagine you lost everything you had right now. Then imagine how happy you'd be if you got it al...
Sunday, March 26, 2006

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Gay.com: 2025 Bot or Totem?
Tuesday, March 21, 2006

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Barricade Selectivity I've read many references to the French college students' union in the past week but not till today had I hear...
Sunday, March 19, 2006

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Paul Haggis Is the Sam Mendes of His Generation The joke template for this headline courtesy of a childhood acquaintance of mine who later s...

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Is That a Hole in Your Pocket or Are You Just Happy to Seem Real? From the tiny but fat 4x4 inch volume called The Little Zen Companion (le...
Friday, March 17, 2006

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I Accommodate Islam It was a great parking spot, but there at the interstices of civilizations I reminded myself of an important rule for my...
Thursday, March 16, 2006

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Slobodanny, We Largely Knew You Let a smile brighten your day.
Monday, March 13, 2006

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Putting the Ville Back in Nashville What Haystacks Were to Impressionists (You Are to Me)
Sunday, March 12, 2006

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Frank Zafka My typos are genius, my misreadings are hyper-genius (see title above). All the very few google hits for Frank Zafka are keybo...
Tuesday, March 07, 2006

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Global Warming Imperils Fortress of Solitude I make a little joke at the London Times' expense a few days ago and now they are furtively...

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Blue Oyster Cult References Should Be Noted in the Headline* Anne Bancroft Has Risen from the Grave *And explained in an endnote.