Archive for August, 2009

Car Rides That Might Get a Little Abstract

Monday, August 31st, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

According to the BBC, Bob Dylan is talking to a number of car companies about being the voice of their satellite navigation systems.

No One To Talk To

Monday, August 31st, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

There's a fairly heartbreaking story by Patricia Leigh Brown in today's New York Times about how the ethnic elderly are among the most isolated people in America. They're America's fastest-growing immigrant group (in California one in nearly three seniors is ...

Elderism #60

Saturday, August 29th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Ray Charles, then blind for 67 years, in 2003: "It would be a real bitch if I ever lost my hearing. I know I couldn't be no Helen Keller. That would be worse than death."

The Larry Stage

Saturday, August 29th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

James Wolcott writes amusingly in Vanity Fair that Larry King Live, through its bizarro coverage of the deaths of David Carradine, Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, and Michael Jackson, has become "the funeral parlor of the gods." Wolcott writes of King, ...

I Was Tim Gunn

Friday, August 14th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

The folks at Bravo who brought us Project Runway are working on a new reality series--this one about visual artists--to air in 2010. Although the show isn't called So You Want to Be an Artist (the producers haven't decided on a ...

Strawberry Fields Forever

Wednesday, August 12th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

I have a story in the New York Times today (it is here) about VeggieTrader.com, a site that is essentially Craigslist for homegrown produce (you can swap or sell homegrown produce or plants on it). My apartment is now brimming ...