The scene in the lobby of Primary Stages ten minutes before the curtain rose on ‘Hunting and Gathering‘ was cutthroat. “Locke was right,” Ruth muttered under her breath as UES ladies got — literally!– pushy as they plowed imperiously through the ticket line.  Seriously: one of them reached out a manicured paw to actually push [...]

In a recent Harper’s essay (not online) about the big corporations that run book publishing, Ursula K. Le Guin writes that “Within the corporate whales are many luckless Jonahs who were swallowed alive with their old publishing house — editors and such anachronisms” and that “The relationship of art to capitalism is, to put it [...]

Richard Brody, in the New Yorker, says it’s “unjust that the Academy didn’t nominate Wes Anderson’s ‘The Darjeeling Limited’ in any category, and jokes that the Marc Jacobs for Louis Vuitton dead-dad’s fancy suitcases that Owen and Jason and Adrien haul around India throughout the film should have inaugurated a new category, “Best Luggage.”  Not [...]

Last night Ruth and I went to Trivia Night.  One of the most fun things about Trivia Night, besides the fact that it makes you feel incredibly stupid and like everyone is reading a different Internet than you are, is that you get to pick a team name. We presciently decided to call our team [...]

continues to prove all too easy for Bennett to master.  This time, everything on his laptop was what turned out to be filled with the intent to be lost, thanks to a stranger’s ass and a cup of coffee.  That poem just keeps being relevant.

Oh man. So. My experiment in having a dog is now over.  Don’t worry, I didn’t do anything drastic!  The puppy is now reunited with her biological mom in Mahwah, New Jersey.  If there’s anything I’ve learned from this experience, it’s how to get to Mahwah, New Jersey.

Well! Maybe I learned some other things too [...]

If you were too lazy to make your own pathetic playlist in honor of whatever fake holiday happened yesterday, you can listen to these podcasts which is what I have been doing.  There are some stinkers on there but even the stinkers are sort of educational, like, maybe it’s appropriate to listen to Tori Amos [...]