Monthly Archive: September 2001

Velvet Goldmine. I think it was an inspired work of mad genius. Anything that links together UFOs, Oscar Wilde, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, and David Bowie in such an erotic chiaruscoro of sequins deserves,...

Ken’s birthday was a hoot. You know you’re in trouble, though in an Indian restaurant when after everyone’s ordered their dishes, the server comes over to add another table nearby for “all those dishes...

New Clone Wars trailer! Well not really a trailer, looks more like a lot of robbed semi-finished footage. The shot of massed ranks of Jedi nuttahs with laser swords looks oddly like Saturday night...

Day of surprises. First Pat Buchanan agrees with me, then I find that criminal weasel wannabe Mussolini character Silvio Berlusconi — the current tinpot Prime Minister of Italy — has also been thinking about...

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin, 1759

Is sex dangerous? Only if it’s done badly! My straight college roomie found a woman at a rave who enjoyed dry, raucous sex. Lots of screaming. Quite annoying. One day the pitch of the...

Someone sent me a note about some “scam” involving land phones and how dialing “9“, “0“, “#” will let someone make long-distance calls using your phone account. Now, usually these chain emails are just...

The war Netanyahu and the neocons want, with the United States and Israel fighting all of the radical Islamic states, is the war bin Laden wants, the war his murderers hoped to ignite when...

The men, women and beasts of Freakdom Shock! as FHM Magazine slaughters defenceless girl.

Some things never change. I’m reading this great book on medieval life and there, in the 14th century, there’s a tableaux and description of a game that is basically Truth or Dare! No sign...