December 26, 2003
serendipitous, evanescent, now published
image of part of Joe Ovelman's installation, "Two Walls" The picture is big. It runs across one page and onto the other. I'm credited for the casual image captured by my tiny digital camera, but it was just for...
December 24, 2003
"The Rural Life"
At rest with the flu, in a room at the top of an old farmhouse in the rural American Northeast [an excerpt from a short piece in the NYTimes]:I was raised to believe that sleep is a sovereign remedy for...
does the score show we won today's round?
Guerrillas Kill 3 U.S. Troops; Bomb Kills 5 Iraqis This is the first Reuters headline I spotted on my home page as I got up this morning. Before reading the story I had perversely assumed that "we" were the party...
December 23, 2003
it's no longer our city, it's no longer our country
Finlay Johnson Richards, 2, of London, England, points at New York City police officers patroling Union Square as part of Operation Hercules as his twin sister Maya Rose looks on, Monday, Dec. 22, 2003 in New York. The uniforms...
December 21, 2003
having a merry war?
(Conceived and executed by Ed Sedarbaum. This product conforms to official Patriot Act requirements: it's useless.) What possible purpose is served by the government making an announcement that should totally distract, if not scare us to death? Hmm. [the...
December 20, 2003
just plain [actually, not so plain] junk
the latest (last?) proposal for Larry Silverstein's new World trade Center cock If there's more of it to be made, money really does always win in New York, so I really wanted to stay out of this thing, and...
December 19, 2003
enough of Hillary
As long as we're talking marriage and stuff, let me talk about Hillary, or rather let me report the noble Michelangelo Signorile talking about Hillary. Last week Signorile very efficiently answered a reader who was unable to reconcile New York's...
too good to be true
I'd vote for absolutely any donkey in sight if doing so would get rid of the missile-in-a-horse's-ass sitting in the White house now, but there's only one Democrat in the race I could support absolutely without any hesitation. Dennis...
December 16, 2003
political art
Lysistrata Defending The Acropolis We have no "security" and we won't be "secured". Last week we found out that the great and generous non-profit gallery space, White Box, is planning an important "political" show concurrent with the Republican National...
December 15, 2003
Kult K48 Klubhouse - last chance!
Scott Hug entertains in the game room Scott Hug's wonderworld curatorial set, "Attack--The Kult K48 Klubhouse," originally scheduled to be struck yesterday, will remain in the Deitch Projects space in Williamsburg through Saturday. Yea! He's done it again. It's...
December 14, 2003
New York is helicopter heaven
[our own helicopter makes no noise - oh, and it carries no bombs] Late one night early last week I posted a brief mention that the next day I would be going to a meeting about New York's helicopter...
Hussein is as good as dead already
Shaking Hands: Iraqi President Saddam Hussein greets Donald Rumsfeld, then special envoy of President Ronald Reagan, in Baghdad on December 20, 1983 [in the midst of the war begun in 1980, when Iraq attacked Iran]. (video clip still) Hussein...
December 11, 2003
an eye for the lesbians
Collier Schorr, Jens im Weizen (Topless) 2000 c-print 55 x 37 inches We went to a benefit for the New Festival two nights ago. It was essentially a silent auction of nearly a hundred items related, directly or remotely,...
December 9, 2003
get the hueys out of my airspace!
Zowie! It's 12:30 already! Gotta get to bed early, since tomorrow morning at dawn [10 am in C. Virginia Fields's office downtown] I have to talk about our neighborhood's regular assault by low-flying and low-hovering helicopters. Is it Donald...
December 8, 2003
now almost 16 years, but we're tired of counting
the first ACT UP demonstration, March 24, 1987 "Fight Back, Fight AIDS: 15 Years of ACT UP", the documentary by James Wentzy which first shown last November in New York at MIX 2002 and at the Berlin International Film...
December 7, 2003
culture storming
We had every intention of making it three days in a row, but we stayed inside out of the storm today. Our unusual homebody status was established mostly through reports that the streets linking the artists of the weekend's Long...
wrapped Chesnut
Near ecstasy [the image is of our wonderful new Fritz Chesnut drawing, before it was unwrapped today]...
December 4, 2003
December 2, 2003
Republicans simply make delicious targets in this town
Hieronymus Bosch, Ship of Fools I still think I was right. There is nothing more damning than the facts, but the NYTimes editorial department must have had fun with this one, and their product shows it. I wouldn't want...
what's it mean?
Boys at war The caption which accompanies this photo from the current Yahoo News slideshow reads:Two US soldiers from the 2nd Battalion of the 173 Airborne Brigade take position next a group of Iraqi youths during a massive raid...
December 1, 2003
but it's world AIDS day every day
Here it is, "World AIDS Day" and all I can think of posting here is a story about health insurance. Well, unfortunately every day is a day with AIDS in this world, thanks to criminal disregard which began almost 25...
security
Bedford Avenue L platform, Williamsburg This mysterious, newly-installed, booth, which sits in the middle of the platform, confounding safe passage for actual people, was deserted last night, as it has been every time I have passed around it....
"one of the great romantic judges"
Raymone J. Pettine, federal judge in Rhode Island from 1966 until 1996, died on November 17. The NYTimes obituary in today's editions cites his landmark rulings from the bench supporting humane prison conditions, civil liberties for individuals, equal rights for...
