February 29, 2004
New York fails its security test - "disastrously"
Barry and I were stuck underground on the F train of the New York City MTA system for two full hours this afternoon and evening. Apparently a homeless person threw a rebar onto the tracks, hitting the third rail and...
Hyemi Cho
Hyemi Cho Skin Shed (2004) oil on wood, 30" x 16" Hyemi Cho Shed SuperHero (2004) oil and pen on wood, 35" x 18" I'm following up my post describing our visit to the Riviera Gallery in Williamsburg with...
February 28, 2004
'bias' - does that mean there's both good AIDS and bad AIDS?
So, would the NYTimes fire a reporter they discovered had once demonstrated on behalf of a cure for breast cancer? Would they fire a John Kerry when they found out he had once worked to end a disastrous and outrageously...
February 27, 2004
war in symphony
Now I remember why I go to live performances of symphonic music! Transcendence. Also remembered only when we got there was why we had purchased tickets weeks ago for tonight's Orchestra of St. Luke's concert. Once we saw the programs...
February 26, 2004
religion, organizing
See yesterday's post, "he just can't stop", for more religion. [image thanks to Wiley Miller and ucomics]...
February 25, 2004
just another evening out
inside the Pernice show at Storefront, Anees bandited on the left Last night we met our friend Anees at Storefront for Art and Architecture, for the opening of an exhibition, "Small Works, 1994-2004", by Manfred Pernice. Anees is an...
New full RSS feed
Barry here, as master of all things webbish. For those who read James's weblog via an RSS reader, I've added a new full feed with comments. Go here for more info....
he just can't stop
"Credulity, Superstition and Fanaticism" Remember the three other nutty proposals? In the White House our First Constitutional Scholar and Pontifex Maximus is reported today to be proposing an alteration to our fundamental law, but only oh, so reluctantly. The...
disgusting!
he still has to figure his taxes, but now the real threat is to his social security Stop taxing the wealthy; it'll be good for everyone, they said. Now it's, omigod, we're out of money - we can't fulfill...
February 24, 2004
another Republican war, this one on faggots everywhere,
even Log Cabin Republicans. And the Democrats are not blameless either. Bush has just now officially come out in support of a Constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. [but I no longer think so] First of all, the media has it...
February 23, 2004
beauty and the street
modernist sawhorse worktable on 8th Avenue The glasiers have to have something to work on, but these guys from Fordham Glass opt for midcentury modern design. Form seems to follow function here. Light, strong, beautiful. The piece would look...
best news scoop of the year?
Headline of lead story in current the Onion: Osama Bin Laden Found Inside Each Of UsWASHINGTON, DC—Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld announced Tuesday that Osama bin Laden, prime suspect in the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the...
February 22, 2004
Fernando Carabajal
installation view of, among other things, a giant clown nose The work of Fernando Carabajal has haunted me since we saw it in Mexico City late last month. Fresh, charming, quirky, and each piece a beautiful, microsmic reading by...
February 19, 2004
letting there be [wonderful] light
the Lescaze ceiling fixture in the small gallery The 16 inch in diameter chrome-plated brass lamp was designed by William Lescaze for his 1938 Garrett A. Hobart III house, now destroyed, in Tuxedo Park, New York. See yesterday's post,...
"Buy your own president!"
Billionaires for Bush at the 2000 Republican Convention Count me in! It's going to be a very interesting summer in New York. We couldn't make it to last night's fundraiser, but we certainly want to catch up with this...
February 18, 2004
scuttling a great building
William Lescaze's Fiterman Hall today There were no tears shed, and no tears should have been shed, for the collapse of 7 World Trade on September 11, 2001. No one was killed or injured when it fell. We are...
February 16, 2004
superstition and ignorance as policy
I want my money back. No, I mean I want part of my life back. Actually, I want my civilization back, for all of us. Why did we have to endure institutionalized superstition for a thousand years? Why do we...
so why is it Kerry?
I don't even want to talk here about the relative merits of the various candidates for the club's nominee for the presidency, but I am pretty amazed that such a sense of inevitability became attached to John Kerry's name so...
February 13, 2004
February 12, 2004
lifting the gag order - this time
Drake University law professor Sally Frank "a culture distracted into obedience by fear" [from a press release for a show, Halliburton", of paintings by Adam Simon opening Friday at art Moving, 166 North 12th St. in Williamsburg] Oh, I've...
February 11, 2004
"silver alien fortress" to displace a Brooklyn neighborhood
Bilbao-ball in Brooklyn More on the Brooklyn basketball boondoggle, this time from The Morning News. But first a reminder of what this whole thing is all about. Developer Bruce Ratner is responsible for both Brooklyn’s MetroTech Center and the...
bombings as usual?
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide car bomb killed 47 people at an army recruitment center in Baghdad Wednesday, taking the death toll to about 100 in two attacks on Iraqis working with the U.S. occupation forces within 24 hours.After the...
February 10, 2004
civil liberty gagged
DANGEROUS [Brian Terrell, executive director of the Catholic Peace Ministry in Des Moines, had helped conduct nonviolence training at a November 15 forum on the Drake University campus. He received a federal grand jury subpoena last week] I don't...
