Urban Honking

Dick Cheney’s equivalent to Reagan’s ketchup quote here. Infuriating.

Good luck to Ezra’s softball team, The Lagers (nee The PDX Martyrs Brigade). Tonight is their first game. Here is what some sadists do to their puppies. “I’m a typical playboy dualist, constantly surrounded by roses. And I can shoot lasers out of my eyes.” [scroll down to “Anime Geeks.”] As entertaining as the drunk […]

Precisely two minutes and 45 seconds into R. Kelly’s “Ladies Night,” when his echoed vox descend like shooting stars, glitter confetti, swathes of chiffon–and the guitar bubbles, restrained tickling on the counter rhythm–and he’s singing “Daaaaance, yeah”–because the dance is a transport, away from what we don’t know (jail?) but the steppers are angels, definitely; […]

If someone helps me navigate this mac. com account, Jessica and I will activate the Faculty Lounge music blog and I will post a QB jam with extra special deep mobbin. It’s time. All taker-uppers may email julianneshepherd@yahoo.com, or mp3s to jawnita@gmail.com, and in the spirit of Simple Machines bake-offs, will get a special present […]

You can make a career out of untethered wandering, and I got out before my stop for that purpose. No purpose, just wandering; trying to step where the legos lock right. But I discovered something: a clean and fertile dumpster, where someone had shed art books in French, and two huge plexiglassed posterboards with half […]

NYC fake-blood fanatics, mark your calendars: My friend Sara is playing drums in The Husbands, a band with Sadie Shaw and Sarah Reed, and they’re at the Knitting Factory Sept 19. You may remember Sadie and Sarah as independent horror-filmmakers, members of the Lies and The Vanishing and the coolest gore gore girls on the […]

Blew out Steve’s speakers obsessing over Nicole Wray’s spectacular “If I was Your Girlfriend,” which is this year’s “Milkshake” in that it starts and ends in the same pocket, but despite its march-in-place, is fireworky enough to warrant repeats. It’s two minutes of package-delivered energy, and I like that it doesn’t sound subject-object, despite the […]

And she is 28 years of totally fabulous!

Labor day and the sirens on my street, near the hospital, have mostly gone silent. I assume this means nobody dies on holiday weekends, which fares well for Big Saxy up in the ICU. For you people googling Fox News, here are some interesting links. For the person googling “Usher Raymond Dead Person,” I really […]

GW Bush sighting!!: Coming out of church on 39th and Park around noon today. We didn’t actually SEE him so much as yell—his car was parked in a tent attached to the side door of the church, where he exited unnoticed—but we DID see a secret service-looking dude hand a bag of KENTUCKY FRIED CHICKEN […]