Urban Honking

Now I am really “in the soup,” that’s for sure. “Oh, second year!” everyone says, and they are right. My days are spent frantically cramming various things inside of my skull, my nights are spent frantically scribbling various things down on “paper” (i.e. “the internet”) and sending them to the various people to whom I […]

A hilarious mini-talent show/ reality video by Wm. Steven Humphrey, the man who was my editor, boss and mentor from 2000-2004 at the Portland Mercury in Portland, Oregon. People always ask me and I give them the same answer every time, yes, he’s really like that in person. Way focused, looks great in tube socks. […]

current events-pertinent: the latest, deeply ironic scissor sisters video, a pastiche video where many things are happening. I became obsessed with one part, at about 2:01, where two people are tied to a chair and dogs run by, paper-doll scissor sisters playing and mushroom-clouds clouding behind them all the while. I asked Jake Shears and […]

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starring Michael Mayer and Sasha Frere-Jones. I explained the experience to Mo’s Mom, visiting from Washington, as follows: “Imagine a German DJ sampling a ping-pong ball. When he switches the sound from a ping-pong ball to a pepper-grinder, the whole crowd goes ‘WOOOOOOOOOOOO!’” It was pretty fantastic time, all things considered. Outside, as we were […]

I have just interviewed Felix Bunton, producer of Basement Jaxx. Contrary to the pasty-dance-producer-in-bedroom stereotype, he was very tan from vacationing in Cypress. Ha. He said that when he was younger, his father could never listen to one station on the radio; he just kept flipping through the dial, trying to find something that suited […]

This morning, on the way to The Lodge, Viacom’s ski-resort-themed luncheon hall, a talking cardboard Mr. T, life-sized, told me to “quit” my “jibber-jabber.”

per the WAM listserve, donors choose is raising money for back-to-school books for kids, and particularly the Student-Run Book Club for Middle-School Girls, which helps girls at the Future Leaders Institute Charter School in Harlem with money for their book club. Right now I feel like child advocacy is one of the most important things […]