Archive | August, 2004

Headline for a parody news article I will never write…

26 August 2004

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“Experts Believe Kubler-Ross Skipped Several Steps Before Dying.”

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This interview with Rick Hertzberg…

24 August 2004

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…gets a lot more interesting in the second half, when they start lambasting Bush and talking about Leon W.’s awful review in the NYTBR. All of it’s quite “inside baseball,” but those of you interested in politics and publishing might enjoy what he has to say. Here’s Rick H. on Bush: “Bush II is much [...]

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Paul Krugman is right on the money…

24 August 2004

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….this morning in the Times. His column starts out this way: “Almost a year ago, on the second anniversary of 9/11, I predicted “an ugly, bitter campaign – probably the nastiest of modern American history.” The reasons I gave then still apply. President Bush has no positive achievements to run on. Yet his inner circle [...]

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Jon on the radio, on Iraq

23 August 2004

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He’s on RIGHT NOW (10.15am CST)–check it out! http://www.wusb.org/hear_us.shtml

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Attention Blogger experts

21 August 2004

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As most of you know, I’m not very computer-savvy. So it should come as no surprise that I have never figured out how to 1) put up an archive; and 2) set up RSS or a notify list. Can anybody help me with this?

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A very funny Ian Frazier piece spoofing…

21 August 2004

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…libertarians is here. He’s really top-notch. Saw the documentary “The Corporation” last night. Someone told me–might’ve been Jon–that the film was really a multi-part PBS series masquerading as a documentary, and I think that’s perceptive. It’s a bit shapeless, but very thought-provoking. Definitely worth seeing. By the way, “Fahrenheit 9/11″ is the 219th top-grossing movie [...]

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How to Tell a Workaholic

14 August 2004

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A workaholic’s the kind of person who can’t tell whether he’s had a busy week or not. I have no idea. On Monday, Kate and I went to see the movie “Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle.” It was very funny, and I particularly liked the main characters. After twenty years of white, frat [...]

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How not to review a book

9 August 2004

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If you’d like to see how NOT to review a book, check out Leon Wieseltier’s review of Nicholson Baker’s new novel, “Checkpoint,” in Sunday’s New York Times Book Review. “Checkpoint,” in case you haven’t heard, is apparently a gambol inside the head of someone who wants to shoot President Bush over the War in Iraq. [...]

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Napoleon Dynamite is, well, dynamite

8 August 2004

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Modest, yes. Extremely funny, too. If you’re not sick of cinematic depictions of high school yet, you really ought to go see the new movie, Napoleon Dynamite. My wife Kate, ever the connoisseur of geekdom, insisted. Briefly: Napoleon is an incredibly gangly, nerdy kid going to high school in Idaho. The movie follows him through [...]

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Happy Birthday, SJP

4 August 2004

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Friend Lee Tyler sent me this fine appreciation of humorist S.J. Perelman by TIME columnist Richard Corliss. I tried to quibble with it several times–now there’s a window into my personality–but really couldn’t. I do have a quibble with Perelman himself, however: the style that cracked a million thesauri–the very thing people like Corliss so [...]

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