I went to the see the Arcade Fire at the United Palace Theater last night. I’d had big plans to show Max the Elder the apartment where my parents & I lived when I was small, but some pork tacos and the persistently tourist-stymied walk through midtown meant we didn’t really have time. [...]
Entries from May 2007
3 May 2007
Babies, Part II
I’m disgusted. Hilary Clinton is so bad at saying she’s sorry, she just wants to go back in time and REVERSE the Senate vote authorizing funding for the war! I’m so disgusted I’m Basil Fawlty telling his handsome, gleaming young guest that he really should have visited a chemist’s shop earlier in the [...]
2 May 2007
Glossy, But Only Semi-Glossy
I walk through Harlem a fair amount and have been seeing, since the last rainfall, xeroxed signs packing-taped to street lamps and stapled onto telephone poles. The signs are on glossy, but only semi-glossy, 8 1/2″ by 12″ paper, and have a picture in the center of a wee ClipArt baby wearing a massive [...]
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