Adorable Carrie Fisher with adorableee Paul Simon....
Dec 1st
D.A. Jack McCoy is in Crimes and Misdemeanors and Hannah and...
Dec 1st
Going on an Internets Walk
This is what going on the internet is like for me, because I usually just look at blogs and the...
Nov 25th
To the oceans white with foam
Nov 24th
From the mountains, to the prairies,
Nov 24th
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Possession is the motivation that’s hanging up the goddamn nation.
All time favorite song,...
Nov 24th
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Them that’s got shall have
Them that’s not shall lose
So the Bible says
And it still...
Nov 24th
Blackbird, inspired by Leonard Cohen’s bird on the...
Nov 24th
Volcano in Hawaii, where I went at a particularly difficult...
Nov 24th
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“Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah, you take it on faith, you take it to the heart, the waiting is the...
Nov 24th
Another Day of the Waiting Game
The Waiting Game—dare I say, the least fun game in the world? I suppose Russian Roulette is...
Nov 24th
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I’m on a music tour now, and I am told that almost every show we do gets posted later that same...
Nov 23rd
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I saw Synecdoche, New York last night and it was such a full experience that I don’t want to...
Nov 22nd
Madame Secretary! It’s official. Damn. Really...
Nov 21st
The best $13 I ever spent
I spent $13 to overnight my 2004 ballot to Washington from Massachusetts, and after a brutal fight...
Nov 21st
On Faith
Michael Servetus* is the closest thing Unitarian-Universalists have to a saint of our own: he was...
Nov 19th
class warfare
I am privileged—privileged enough that my father told me that I could go to the best college I...
Nov 19th
Stop making me love you, Rahm.
Seriously. It’s...
Nov 15th
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I’m so glad my parents love jazz. I could listen to this on an endless loop.
Nov 15th
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Love Nelly McKay! The antidote for Katy Perry disease.
Reminds me of my favorite “how many...
Nov 15th
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FDR is my favorite president for many reasons, one of which being his ingenious use of the radio for...
Nov 15th
Tell me that lady isn’t going to scare the shit out of...
Nov 14th
Hillary For State? Yay!
As a rational person and a feminist, I know that those two positions are not mutually exclusive, and...
Nov 14th
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I want to be Sarah Thornton. See, social science isn’t useless!
Nov 13th
Pin-Stuck, Lucia Joyce
Nov 13th
Looks like someone else has been reading the Style Section!...
Nov 13th
Just as I suspected, the internet drives...
Nov 13th
George W. Bush.
Former Governor of Texas. Former Baseball...
Nov 13th
Jimmy Carter.
Ambassador for peace. Supporter of Habitat...
Nov 13th
Al Gore.
Winner of the Nobel Prize. This is what democracy...
Nov 13th
How To Understand the Mindset of an...
Every liberal knows the sense of desperation in defeat. Some are aware of the grace that can come...
Nov 12th
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“I come from DC. My father worked for the government. He did a hell of a fucking job for them,...
Nov 9th
"Young Voters, Get Mad"? I'm way ahead of...
Nov 9th
Stick A Pin In It (Sarah Kane)
I only just heard of Sarah Kane last night when combing the New York Times, Blasted sounds insane,...
Nov 7th
“When distracted or restless, a not infrequent occasion,...”
— From Newsweek’s...
— From Newsweek’s...
Nov 7th