August 31, 2003
August 30, 2003
howling about HOWL!
Ethel Eichelberger honored in Howl!’s “Pantheon Parade” - would she be pissed too? It's not just me, and I didn't make it up. I'm talking respectively about my disappointment with the narrow focus of the HOWL! Festival, and the...
August 29, 2003
the six beer theory, and more
In a short post about the fluidity of male sexuality, where he references the legendary six beer theory, Welshcake evokes the media's latest tizzy over the supposed ascendancy of the gay aesthetic, commenting: Metrosexual? Heteroflexible? Whatever. As my late friend,...
candles, fags, comb, glider, moisturizer, sand . . .
Chelsea, August 28, 6pm, SGS Hardware, 157 8th Ave., between 17th and 18th Sts. Our tiny neighborhood hardware store has always had interesting windows, but this special end-of-summer-2003 set excels. The guys tell me it's a work in progress,...
August 28, 2003
all this makes me dizzy
Ole von Beust Rex Wochner reported two days ago:The mayor of Hamburg, Germany, Ole von Beust, came out Aug. 19 after firing the city-state's interior minister, Ronald Schill, for allegedly trying to blackmail him. . . . . Von...
it takes two sides to lose an election
The Republicans. They really are stupid, but maybe there's a shiny lining for us in that empty cloud. Am I hopeful? Look at all the headlines these days. Bush and his handlers are dead. Traditional Republicans used to be able...
August 27, 2003
"but then I remember John"
Jogged by current arguments over New York's Harvey Milk High School, and a recent postcard from his own school, bj has written an honest, beautiful piece about an ugly memory, one whose counterpart I share shamefully, as I'm sure do...
worshipping a graven image in Montgomery
Ten Commandments Cultists pray in Montgomery, Alabama. Atrios says it: 300 bigots and lunatics protesting around a carved rock, worthy of nonstop coverage. 100,000 people protesting a war, worthy of brief snide commentary.In fact, there were 3 to 10...
ice pop goes 'round the world!
Maple Ave (Digimon)/ Meredith Allen Meredith Allen now has a full-page image in this week's New Yorker and a website as well. [Don't miss the "kiddie rides."] We love Meredith! And we love her work! Obviously the magazine does...
August 26, 2003
"Millions Stand Behind Me"
Illustration by John Heartfield on cover of Arbeiter-Internationale-Zeitung (Workers International Newspaper), October 1932. There is no war on terror; there is only the terror of war. One of the top stories on Reuters at this minute:"Our war on terror...
solving the problem
"With a people denied so many basic rights for so long, the only way to stop the terrorism (of the few) is to end the suffering (of the many)." For an understanding of what actually is the thinking within the...
"Let's talk about terrorism!"
"The villagers can't get to the schools or the medical centers. They are surrounded by settlements, extremly aggressive ones, and are not allowed to travel on the Jewish roads. Yes, the Jewish roads. Palestinians are not allowed to travel on...
wigs and stuff not stock
TABBOO! click here for more pictures On Saturday my Wigstock experience began on a sour note, and it had nothing to do with wigs. As Barry and I were about to cross Avenue A at 8th Street I spotted...
August 24, 2003
report from Palestine August 24, 2003
Steve writes from Tel Aviv, on his last full day before he returns to New York. The pictures above, of the Apartheid Wall from the side of the imprisoned, are my own choice, from the International Solidarity Movement site....
August 23, 2003
don't have to wear brown shirts to behave like fascists
Bloggy has an extended post "On Israel/Palestine, violence, and ethnic cleansing."...
August 22, 2003
"but as for its people . . . ."
Silipups explains. He's describing the intent of his own weblog, but on the subject of Palestine he could be speaking for many of us.Hi, my name is Anees. As per many questions I was recently asked: I THINK SUICIDE BOMBINGS...
how foreign?
Stupid can't even hear himself. Bush to reporters in Seattle today:"There's a foreign element that's moving into Iraq."...
Bloomberg's "special relationship" with folly
The mayor of New York is going to Israel to show his support. Am I the only one who finds this news appalling? Are Israelis the only victims of this horrible conflict? Bloomberg's either a fool or a political opportunist...
August 21, 2003
"Reporter! Kill! Kill!"
Ted Rall Not only does the new world order keep its own subjects from the real news, but it keeps those who would report it from reaching an audience anywhere. Two days ago we murdered a journalist in Baghdad....
angels waiting for the dark spirit
I guess it's probably a very good thing when activists are also very beautiful. For the story of these two very young International Solidarity Movement volunteers chained to a Palestinian house in the dark, see this site, sections in the...
report from Palestine August 21, 2003
Steve gets a bit of beach-y R&R, but only a bit. "I continue to believe that this is exactly what the Israeli Right wants--the more warfare there is, the more support they get." Tel Aviv, Thursday, August 21, 2003 Again,...
"for all time" may be short
The White House may be ready to admit failure in Iraq, but how are they going to do it? - by asking the United Nations to give them moral and physical cover. The UN is supposed to make it an...
August 20, 2003
"by any means necessary"
Rude rube They can’t win office or policy by democratic or constitutional means, so they’re doing it by any means they can. The most dramatic examples are the Clinton impeachment attempt, the 2000 election outcome, the California governor recall,...
report from Palestine August 20, 2003
Andreas Koninek, 20, an International Solidarity Movement volunteer from Stockholm, chained to a Palestinian house in Balata refugee camp, waiting for the Israeli military to arrive on August 17. [ISM story] Steve writes from Joyyous today. He includes accounts...
HOWL! tonight
The HOWL! Opening Night Party is this evening at Angel Orensanz Foundation, with stuff and things beginning at 7pm and continuing until 11. I wrote about the festival earlier, and this kick-off sounds more than passing promising. The details,...
the blackout blast blog
When the power went off we were upstairs at the Metropolitan Museum. We had just finished walking through the extraordinary “Art of the First Cities” exhibit on one of its very last days, and I had picked up, but not...
August 19, 2003
the blackout beef blog
Updated August 20, with pictures We’re back. Time Warner somehow managed finally to push the right remote control button exactly two days after electrical power (but, for our building, not their cable) was restored to Chelsea. We now have our...
August 16, 2003
No posts
Posting will resume once Time Warner Cable/Road Runner deigns to get our cable modem running again. 24 hours after Chelsea (the last neighborhood in the city, yes) had its power restored, we have no cable....
August 13, 2003
August 12, 2003
Harvey M would love Harvey F!
Follow-up on my August 2 Harvey Milk High School post The big guns are still turned on the modest little New York high school which operates as a shelter for kids who really, really need it, and some on the...
so, what are they thinking?
"Peaking too soon?" Gary Trudeau had Mark on the phone to Iraq yesterday. Are we "supporting our troops," or are we afraid to admit that our government is one of idiots and spoilers, and that we personally share in that...
actually, talk isn't cheap after all
Is our current philosophy of government killing our troops and abusing Iraq? Paul Krugman says the mess in Iraq isn't just about poor planning and mismanagement. The Bush administration's mixture of penny-pinching and privatization (both pursued for reasons of ideology...
for good sports and the people who love them
The 2003 Ford ITU New York City World Cup Duathlon [sic], a "dry-tri," because of the polluting effect of recent perpetual heavy rainfall in Manhattan, was staged completely within Central Park on Sunday, incidently making it easier on the spectator,...
August 11, 2003
a beautiful man
Students celebrate with Hines after a tap class of the Broadway Theatre Project in Tampa. Gregory Hines died on Saturday night. He was a good man, a beautiful man, a dancer, a New Yorker, a singer, an actor, and...
John Weir, sloppy style pundit - and "dad"
Storied John Weir ( "The Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket" author, CBS terrorist, elusive man about town, beloved professor) has been watching Television. Well, maybe it's less like pay-per-view than view-per-pay, since his account of what he has been...
August 10, 2003
love in time of war
WWII pilots All day long, after posting the item below, "their flesh . . . revives," I’ve been thinking about WW2. I have to admit that it's not dead to me. I actually remember it. No, not exactly as...
Israel moves to destroy another family
Omigosh, James is asking for money now. No I'm not! I think the story in this post is important by itself, especially if you have been following Steve's reports from Palestine regularly included on this blog since last summer. However,...
"their flesh . . . revives"
Frank Templeton Prince A soldier and a poet died on Thursday. In 1942 he wrote what some say is the greatest poem of a great war, not the Great War, but the one which seems to have been strangely...
Iraq civilian body count
The body count, or "Reported civilian deaths resulting from the US-led military action against Iraq in 2003," via Silipups. As of today: MINIMUM Total of civilians reported killed: 6087 MAXIMUM Total of civilians reported killed: 7798...
help keep the VILLAGE in the EAST
Antifolk Festival, August 19-26 Let's respect the history and launch the future of the East Village, LOISAIDA, Village, or whatever our nicknames have been for New York's most dynamic cultural engine. HOWL!, The "1st Annual Festival of East Village...
August 9, 2003
report from Palestine August 9, 2003
Warsaw, 1940's "Does this remind you of anything?" [the text of a sign held, while standing on the scoop of a frontloader, by one of several dozen youg Israeli peace activists trying yesterday to obstruct the construction of the...
but "charming" he's not
"More Zealous than the Pope." He's head of the Vatican's "Holy Inquisition" [modern, formal name: "Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith], and he's described as personally charming.The man who wrote last week's Vatican document ruling out same-sex marriage is...
August 8, 2003
Handschu guidelines restored - maybe
The New York Police Department has been slapped for its "operational ignorance" and its threat to constitutional rights.Charging he had lost confidence in the NYPD's methods of investigating political activity, a federal judge yesterday restored limits on the department that...
August 7, 2003
August 6, 2003
"The Mother Was A Mother"
[YOU DON'T WANT A PICTURE HERE] Maybe she's finally beginning to rot. Some of the world's media this week is carrying the story about a festival in Calcutta celebrating Mother Teresa's imminent beatification. Calcutta, or Kolkata, as it is now...
Speedo help
Jessie, a smart Blogger acquaintance of ours, needs help with new swim goggles.My crappy Speedo swim goggles broke. So i taped them for this super hot goggle photo. And these less than hot goggle animations - 256-color, 16-color, 4-color....
August 4, 2003
Jamie Arcangel and the Arcangels
THE "SUMMER OF HTML TOUR!!!!!!!!!! I don't think I could begin to do justice to yesterday's events at the courageous Team Gallery with any written description, so I'm going to cop out altogether and leave it to a few pictures,...
headline of the day
"J. Lo and Affleck Finally Get Some Privacy," is the headline the NYTimes uses in an illustrated business (media) section article today.The story of Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck, glamorous movie stars whose love affair blossomed on a Hollywood set,...
undoing Justinian's cruel Code
Is that a basball bat in his right hand? I admire a minds that can think in terms of millennia! Well, those who run the Catholic Church may be an exception, but perhaps it's because they only think in...
report from Palestine August 4, 2003
Olives are almost as important to this story as they are to Palestinians generally. Steve's been mostly staying out of trouble the last few days:Not a lot to report, and no photo this time. I've been helping with organization...
C.H.U.N.K. women
photo by Basil Bernstat The pix keep coming in. This wonderful image of several competitors [Amy in the center] is from the C.H.U.N.K. 666 site itself. The picture gives some idea of just how hot the Chunkathalon afternoon really...
August 3, 2003
a bucolic world returned to Manhattan
The 16 acres formerly occupied by the World Trade Center is not the only large lower Manhattan site whose future is being contested these days; it’s merely the most visible. On Friday we toured some of the 172 acres which...
ONE LESS CAR
photo from BikeSummer 2003 Zach shows his stuff at the Williamsburg Chunkathalon. Now that's commitment. I have absolutely no idea how we missed this part of the program last Saturday....
August 2, 2003
report from Palestine, August 2, 2003
Jayyous food delivery, July 28 Steve writes from the West Bank:Qalqilya Aug. 2, 2003 At 3:00 last Friday morning, I was awakened by Kevin, a member of the ISM Qalqilya action group, and a local photojournalist I'll call Ragheb,...
still, you have to demonstrate a "history" to be saved
Hetrick-Martin youth An email arrived Thursday at 8:30 in the morning, asking me to attend a press conference at City Hall to show "support for the Hetrick-Martin Institute." Sure, I had heard the recent news that the city had...
