Instead of our usual monthly Debate at Lolita Bar being on a Wednesday…in a bar…and being a debate:
I, Todd Seavey, will read Ayn Rand’s speech “Faith and Force: Destroyers of the Modern World”
on this Saturday, the first — May Day — at 4pm at Columbia in Hamilton, Room 303
(thanks to Cooper Vaughan and the Columbia [...]
Download audio of the full Debate at Lolita Bar from April 7 (on “ObamaCare: Triumph or Doom?” with Bryan Harris and Gerard Perry) — and watch this site for tomorrow’s announcement of the room number and directions for our next event: a special Saturday, May 1 (4pm) gathering at Columbia featuring me reading an Ayn [...]
In Thursday’s entry about a comic book depicting conservative punks as evil, I mentioned planning to see Elvis Costello last night — so I was a bit saddened (though not shocked) when I saw a headline today saying Elvis had been recruited to bolster the reelection campaign of the UK’s Gordon Brown — but it [...]
It wouldn’t be Earth Day without news of a leftist comic book story set in the UK or written by a UK writer.
Jacob Levy sends another important geek alert: my core philosophy, the very source of this blog’s slogan and an impending book chapter by the same title, has been depicted as a force of [...]
Jacob Levy notes this barbershop quartet singing the triumphant Ewok song from the end of Return of the Jedi. (Even the original Ewok song seems OK to me now, compared to the prequels. I would far rather watch nine hours of Ewoks than hear nine seconds of Anakin telling Padme she’s not like sand.)
Meanwhile, Grindhouse [...]
•April 19, 1775: the Lexington, MA shot that started the Revolutionary War
•April 19, 1993: the Waco fire concluding the ill-fated Branch Davidians raid
•April 19, 1995: bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City
•April 19, 2010: Todd’s first day at his new job (then rally at Langan’s at 7 with me)
But on a more local political [...]
After the start of Brightest Day and the parasitic evil of Tax Day, I face my final day at ACSH, and tonight I plan to exit the office carrying the last significant object I need to remove from my office: a giant, black, blasphemous, cardboard cross emblazoned with the words “The Exorcist: The Beginning” that [...]
The Star Trek Experience (the ride/funhouse/theatre/bar in Las Vegas) is no more, and its parts are being auctioned off, including Picard’s command chair. I was there in the mid-00s and even have a photograph of myself drinking a Warp Core Breach, with a souvenir Starfleet teddy bear I dubbed Tibearius propped up next to me. [...]
Or rather, in this 1,001st blog entry, I hereby announce my plan to use this site henceforth for something more like one weekly essay — and, to compensate, by 2010’s end, I hope to be focused on this Top Ten Things To Do list of expanded media activities:
•TV news writer/producer (the real job, in so [...]
My computing-machine claims that this is the 1,000th blog entry posted on this site, which means it’s been near-daily since it started just over three years ago. Since yesterday’s entry focused on punk, let’s look primarily at two of the other four legs of the Seavey philosophical table today: science and markets.
•The first thought to [...]
Malcolm McLaren, RIP, as noted in my reason piece “Capitalism for Punks” today. And lest I make the Rotten/McLaren animosity sound too strong, I should add this reminder that Johnny’s not totally rotten, from New York Times: They report Lydon/Rotten has said, “For me Malc was always entertaining, and I hope you remember that. Above [...]
That’s the question on Stossel — which, again, is not the series I’ll be working on — tonight at 8pm Eastern on Fox Business Network (Channel 43 on Time Warner cable if you’re in Manhattan), repeated at midnight and other times this weekend. David Boaz and others will attempt to answer the question, though you [...]
Comic books kept getting progressively “darker” during the three decades I read them, but if (for some sick reason), you’d like to try picking up the habit at a turning point when things may be headed in a more optimistic direction, Wednesday one week from today sees the publication (and delivery to your local comic [...]
On this final day of Passover, let’s take a moment to reflect upon the Jews and the idiots who hate them (if anything, I must count myself a Judeophile — where would comic books, comedy, film, libertarian philosophy, science, New York City, and roughly one third of my ex-girlfriends be without the Jews?).
I mentioned back [...]
Two weeks from today, I become part of the vast Rupert Murdoch media empire, and I’m admitting that here for all time so that no one accuses me of hidden conflicts of interest if I absent-mindedly blog in the future about some other part of the empire — such as:
•the Wall Street Journal, a great [...]