Try not to turn off your phone, go to a meeting, sit in a chair that is the same color as your cell phone, and then think you have lost said phone and run around …
If you liked Peter Brook's Mahabharata, you might also like Dune!
Man, these spammers have great fake names. Russell Kerbrat, Ahmed Pollock, and Glenn Narayan!
"STEWART: You don't want to get the Democrats angry, because then they'll maybe meet in private." I wish that Stewart had poked more fun at Moyers, but it's still Jon Stewart.
This Paul Conrad cartoon features (I think) George W. Bush, at 79% approval, running in a race, and another George W. Bush, at 42% approval, gaining on him. But at first I thought it featured …
I am a happy mutant rabbit. I saw Josh Kornbluth's Love and Taxes last night with Katharine, and we really enjoyed it. After the show, I met the performer and he remembered me from e-mail. …
Sometimes, when I'm trying to pacify the few (thank goodness) rude customers, I think I'm just enabling their bad behavior. I wish it were legit to say, "No, I'm not going to help you unless …
I'm reading the Mahabharata in prose form, as edited by C. Rajagopalachari, "popularly known as 'Rajaji' or 'C.R.'" Fantastic stuff. I see the connections among little narratives and anecdotes that I read in Amar Chitra …
Depressing search: "used to be about". This reminds me of Leonard's aging-hippie impression: "It used to be about the selling out, man!" Roger Ebert's review of the new Lara Croft film: Lara Croft is Lady …
Uncle Saddam DVD: Laugh along at the horror of Saddam and his tyranny of terror over the Iraqi people. No, I will not laugh along!