Spelunkers and cavers everywhere!
It just so happens that in the past two days, my friend Scott Nybakken saw Journey to the Center of the Earth and a certain already-acclaimed, very dark movie about a superhero known for living in a cave at times, and then tonight he and I both bid farewell to Ellie Hanlon, […]
We’re discussing at the bar, being discussed in TimeOut, and more:
(a) Tue., July 22, at 8pm: Debates at Lolita Bar presents a panel discussion: Women Who Have Sold Their Eggs — with egg-producers Valerie Bronte (5′10″ Foucault-studying grad student), Diana Fleischman (evolutionary psychology expert), and Kerry Howley (senior editor, Reason magazine), pictured above in that […]
With the reportedly-good but reportedly-glum (not to mention extra-snuffy, due to Heath Ledger’s subsequent death) Dark Knight coming out this week, I am reminded of the 60s Batman series’ memorable theme song, open, and overall design — great things, and let none of my over-serious comic-reading brethren tell you otherwise.
And I find myself thinking of […]
I try to refrain from personal blogging during work hours, but the Batmobile is parked in front of ACSH at the moment — or rather, is parked across from the IMAX-possessing Loews where they’re apparently doing an advance screening of Dark Knight at 68th and Broadway.
I fear the numerous cops and FDNY gathered may […]
Without question, the best revelation I’ve heard from Madonna’s brother’s book, as summarized by NYPost:
Madonna hangs an 8-by-12-foot photo of herself in S&M gear and lying on a bed with dead animals in her home — in full view of the kids. It’s “the creepiest thing I’ve ever seen,” Ciccone writes.
But then, I was […]
A minister-related reflection for this Sunday (which I plan to spend at least partly outdoors):
The ads for the anti-climate-change site WeCanSolveIt.org say, “Pat Robertson and Al Sharpton have come together to help save the planet. Now we need you” (with a photo of the two men together). How much more evidence do you need that […]
In yesterday’s (penultimate) Retro-Journal entry (and my guest entry on AlarmingNews linked within it), I mentioned the tricky subject of trying to figure out which if any candidate to support if you’re a libertarian, since they’re almost all awful. Libertarians end up having to pick weird allies sometimes since they have so few from […]
In late 2006, elections ousted Republicans and put Democrats in control of Congress (since which time Congress’s approval ratings have slipped to single digits for the first time in the history of polling).
That was also the half-year during which I posted my first, experimental blog entry on ToddSeavey.com, recounting my experience of Election Night […]
I recently went to the website of a fancy Manhattan restaurant, and it proved to be a textbook example of badly-written instructions/directions (one of my pet peeves, up there with signs whose arrows point in ambiguous directions). The restaurant site had multiple paragraphs worth of instructions on how to walk there if starting from Midtown, […]
Continuing my unplanned trilogy of ethno-analytical blog entries, it occurs to me that I know several impressive Ukrainians or Central Europeans — such as the Sobars, Michael Malice (who you can see hosting trivia tonight with Polish-descended Jen Dziura), and Karol Sheinin (on whose blog I’m scheduled to have a guest entry sometime in the […]
All right, to compensate for mocking a black female broadcaster in yesterday’s entry, I will speak fondly of one today, demonstrating the well-rounded sensitivity for which I am known:
Wilder men drink whisky while watching go-go girls who claim to have names like Blaze and Eden (well, wait, technically, I — no, never mind). I, by […]
There are three famous Wendy Williamses (four counting the Olympic swimmer), all three of them either in porn (as the suicidal Plasmatics singer was early on and as, apparently, a famous transsexual has been) or possessed of notoriously gigantic breast implants and prone to cocaine use and ugly spats with P Diddy and others — […]
Unlike lots of frowny-faced losers of the left and right, I do not decry the presence of advertising in our culture, though I would be happy to see fraudulent advertising more mercilessly punished (switching to a loser-pays legal system would make it easier to bring small suits in such cases with assurance of recouping […]
•I mentioned yesterday that as former Ron Paul campaigner Avery Knapp moved out of NYC for L.A., he gave me one of his numerous free copies of the Constitution (with the Declaration of Independence as an appendix, just in time for the Fourth). He also gave me a copy of Ron Paul’s book The […]
You can’t help noticing the thin line between hero and bad boy in American culture from the get-go. It’s not just anti-heroes like the fictional Hancock and mostly-non-fictional Hunter S. Thompson, about whom there are movies out this week (I already know the first is good). It’s also the fact that we were […]
