Members of Westboro Baptist Church in Kansas contend that American soldiers are being killed in Iraq as vengeance from God for protecting a country that harbors gays, and they brought their anti-gay message to the funerals Saturday of two Tennessee soldiers killed in Iraq. The…
Date Archives August 2005
Mooloolaba
Kanye West on Mase: Hands down, the best rapper of all time. One-time Bad Boy Records flag-waver Mase is joining G-Unit. You tell 'em, Ian from Great Neck! "When I came back to Bad Boy, they didn't want me to go where I wanted to…
Liberty Calls
I lie pretty much naked face down on a massage table set up in our dining room counting down the minutes until the masseuse exits my life. eight He flicks eight needles into my back. A third less than last time. Correction: ten needles. He…
Sunday Reading
The death of Robert François Damiens before the steps of Notre Dame cathedral in 1757 furnishes provocative material for anyone wishing to argue that God couldn't possibly have had sufficiently good reasons for allowing the Fall of Man. […] His mind unhinged by various ecclesiastical…
Concupiscence
Goddamn designers… In other news, I wish I had friends in Toronto. Passes and coupon books are sold out but I decided I must try for tickets. Denying myself the Toronto International Film Festival is unacceptable, particularly when I'll be nearby. Why is the Los…
Estrogen was not destiny
MTV2 pilot in the works: "Are You Game?," from Matt Ringel and David Goetsch ("Third Rock from the Sun"), features contestants competing in live-action versions of their favorite video games So like…they play football? Or…life? My favorite video game is Katamari Damacy… I must say,…
Tanks! Tanks! Tanks!
A funny thing happened on the way to Wednesday. "The masseuse? Again?" four I lie face down pretty much naked on a massage table set up in our dining room. He tells me to hold still and then flicks a needle into my back. I…
Seattle/Washington/Prague 00/68/Chicago/Nixon/Reagan Circle-Fighting Machine
At the risk of screwing myself out of tickets, I'd like to note that Smoking Popes will reunite for a show in November, and less than 24 hours later, The Promise Ring will reunite for a show at the same venue. Sweetness. New game! Is…
My Kitchen Is Tiananmen Square
one "Jon, wake up." "But it's Saturday…" "The masseuse is here." "What masseuse?" "Your masseuse." Concerned that I apparently walk crookedly, my mother asked her friend's masseuse to visit our house and fix me. Still groggy, I stripped to my boxers and plopped face down…
Point/Counterpoint
Jim Emerson reports: The young man in the jogging suit (credited as "Kid in car") who passes Bill Murray at the end of Jim Jarmusch's "Broken Flowers" is, in fact, Murray's real-life eldest son, Homer (born in 1982). Does that mean he's meant to be…