Hi there. In an article this week in the Indy’s Arts section, I talk a little bit about William Hundley’s SWEET floating fabric artwork. Here are a few pics with quotes from an exclusive interview with The Indy. “I typically shoot with friends and we are cracking up most the time. The funny thing is […]
At the beginning of this year, I accidentally visited www.mail.harvard.edu looking for my webmail. I was surprised to find a Harvard gmail applet there. Apparently gmail won’t work with any @fas email accounts; instead it requires the @mail.harvard.edu address. I googled it and found that, low and behold, this is a pilot program for the […]
One of the more unfortunate outcomes of Sex and the City‘s success (other than the obsession with rabbit vibrators–seriously, ladies, there are other kinds. Variety IS the spice of life) is TV’s scramble to find its replacement. For example, the upcoming Literary Superstars, a SATC-style take on the publishing industry. Matthew Reilly, an Australian thriller […]
I’ve never been a big fan of IvyGate (from hereon referred to as “IvyHate”), and not just because I happen to know a bubbly little sex blogger named Lena Chen who they plagiarized from a month or two ago. I don’t know who they are or where they’re from- nor do I really care- but […]
I’ll admit to some skepticism at the announcement that we’d now be able to track the shuttle in real time, thanks to actual GPS equipment installed on the buses. The Boston Globe puts the start-up cost of the program at $150,000, which, memo to Dean Pilbeam, would buy a lot of PBR. But the Globe […]
My seventh-grade science teacher used to (and probably still does) refer to James Watson and Frances Crick as “Watson and Prick.” Her comments were in reference to Watson and Crick’s…appropriation of Rosalind Franklin’s experimental data on DNA, which allowed them, in effect, to skip ahead several steps and piece together the double helix structure. But […]
In next Thursday’s Independent, I will discuss the New Jersey ban on playing an educational video called “That’s a Family!” because it depicts gay couples and their adopted children. For reference, here is a clip from “That’s a Family!” [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5yYspWHx9c]
If you are even a little bit of a classic movie fan, check out this re-envisioning of recent movies with great directors of old, courtesy of Misfortune Cookie over at Blogger. The Hitchcock/License to Wed combo is particularly brilliant.
OK, so this clip from the Daily Show has been posted nearly to death, but if you haven’t seen it, you’re missing out. I’m normally not Samantha Bee’s biggest fan, but it just doesn’t get any funnier than this. Also, Mystery? Kind of hot.
For those just tuning in, this is the third installment in a series where I find celebrities’ (often extremely dubious) ties to communism. No, you won’t find Sean Penn or Alec Baldwin here, but you will find McCarthy-era links to friends of friends of some people that might be communists. While linking Italian pop star […]