Archive for April, 2006

Classic. Link.

“I had a gun pointed at my head from 6 inches away,” Copperfield said Tuesday between his two shows in Sunrise. “I’m pretty good under pressure. That’s my job. But I had two young ladies with me.”

When Copperfield’s turn came, Riley was bamboozled.
Copperfield told Page Two he pulled out [...]

Classic. Link.

“I had a gun pointed at my head from 6 inches away,” Copperfield said Tuesday between his two shows in Sunrise. “I’m pretty good under pressure. That’s my job. But I had two young ladies with me.”

When Copperfield’s turn came, Riley was bamboozled.
Copperfield told Page Two he pulled out [...]

Ze Frank (who I mistakenly called Z E Frank the other day) also has a daily web-TV show! It goes for a couple of minutes, and it’s excellent: Link.
Ze Frank is an inspiration. Strangely, there’s nothing on Wikipedia about the guy, but I found this interview in which he explains where he comes [...]

Ze Frank (who I mistakenly called Z E Frank the other day) also has a daily web-TV show! It goes for a couple of minutes, and it’s excellent: Link.
Ze Frank is an inspiration. Strangely, there’s nothing on Wikipedia about the guy, but I found this interview in which he explains where he comes [...]

Here’s the trailer for the new film directed by Terry Zwigoff (Crumb, Ghostworld, Bad Santa) and written by Daniel Clowes (Ghostworld and all those other nutty comics): Art School Confidential.

Link.
There’s also a newer version with more features, but I think the old one is prettier.

Here’s the trailer for the new film directed by Terry Zwigoff (Crumb, Ghostworld, Bad Santa) and written by Daniel Clowes (Ghostworld and all those other nutty comics): Art School Confidential.

Link.
There’s also a newer version with more features, but I think the old one is prettier.

The New York Times has a disturbing article by the brilliant Jack Hitt about abortions in El Salvador [link - sorry, registration required]. Not only are abortions completely illegal in all circumstances in El Salvador, an amendment to their constitution requires that crimes against the unborn be enforced as stringently as crimes against the born. [...]

I was in the Valley with my girlfriend the other night. We were waiting to cross the road into the Brunswick Street Mall, when a tall, distraught-looking young man walked into the middle of the three-lane road, where the traffic was waiting on red. He stopped in the middle lane, and made a [...]

My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts, the spooky 1981 album by David Byrne and Brian Eno, has been remastered and reissued for its 25th anniversary. I got a $10 copy of the album a few years ago, and I never noticed the sound being all that poor – it sounds crisp, clean, and [...]

The New York Times has a disturbing article by the brilliant Jack Hitt about abortions in El Salvador [link - sorry, registration required]. Not only are abortions completely illegal in all circumstances in El Salvador, an amendment to their constitution requires that crimes against the unborn be enforced as stringently as crimes against the born. [...]

I was in the Valley with my girlfriend the other night. We were waiting to cross the road into the Brunswick Street Mall, when a tall, distraught-looking young man walked into the middle of the three-lane road, where the traffic was waiting on red. He stopped in the middle lane, and made a [...]

My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts, the spooky 1981 album by David Byrne and Brian Eno, has been remastered and reissued for its 25th anniversary. I got a $10 copy of the album a few years ago, and I never noticed the sound being all that poor – it sounds crisp, clean, and [...]

I thought this was amazing: link.