Monthly Archives: November 2008

It’s about time

Justin Bond has a blog. A taste: Actually my make-up was wind-swept and tear-stained already after being WHIPPED FROM PILLAR TO POST (OMG -What do you think that aphorism is referencing?) by that asshole Jack Frost when I was walking home from my shrink appointment, but DON’T EXPECT COMPLETE TRUTH in this blog and if [...]
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Patty’s Got a Gun

I have a short review of William Graebner’s new book about Patty Hearst in Newsday today, and here’s a link to a clip of the surveillance footage of the SLA robbing the Hibernia Bank in San Francisco on April 15, 1974.
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John Leonard, 1939-2008

It’s a sad day for the semi-colon. John Leonard passed away last night and I am deeply saddened by the news. I loved reading him. I don’t watch much television, but I always read his column in New York Magazine. The reviews he wrote there and in Harper’s, the New York Review of Books, and [...]
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Waiting for November 5

My girlfriend, Liza, saw this yesterday on Nevins Street near the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn.
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