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“So who’s this guy you’ve dragged me in here to see?”
“Eddie Halliwell. He’s supposed to be absolutely enormous in London right now.”
I expected more cack-handed, commercial-oriented trance.
“What does he spin?”
“UK Hard House.”
And then, O my brothers, did I get gleefully bludgeoned by [...]
Urban Assault: Eddie Halliwell (January 11, 2004)
Of the People, By the People, For the People
Of the People, By the People, For the People (January 10, 2004)
According to former Treas. Sec. Paul O’Neill, planning for the Iraq war began days after the Presidential inauguration in 2001. The grand strategy was formulated by those now considered the Neoconservative advisers, in a memo to Clinton in 1998.
My frustration is not that this was [...]
Life, Kid, Suck the Box: The World Cup, viewed in New York
Life, Kid, Suck the Box
New York must be, all things considered, the greatest place on Earth to watch the World Cup outside the host country. The wretched performance of the U.S. team doesn’t even matter because anyone who cares at all about the sport doesn’t watch them anyway. When everyone’s from everywhere, there’s lift from [...]
The Sweetest Two Words in the Dictionary: Stephen Colbert
The sweetest two words in the dictionary. (May 2, 2006)
Our patriotic propagandists in the mainstream media are responding to charges that they failed to cover Stephen Colbert’s flaying of the president and the press, and in a most presidential fashion: claiming it “just wasn’t funny enough” to merit a mention.
Personally, I would like to know [...]
Death in Life and Life in Death: The Verdict of Moussaoui
Death in Life and Life in Death (April 25, 2006)
Moussaoui is the best argument I’ve ever heard against the death penalty. It is utterly useless for administering any of the three putative justifications for state-ordered murder.
It is useless as a deterrent since it is perceived as martyrdom (when did the execution of Christians in ancient [...]
Milk and Honey
Milk and Honey (April 24, 2006)
I spent part of my weekend reading Sidney’s and Shelley’s defences of poetry. Reading Sir Phillip Sidney drove me to drink, literally, an abject sadness emanating from his insistence upon poetry’s worth in an age which pays it no credit — his assembling of all forces from the dawn of [...]
Dear Soon-to-be-former Press Secretary Scott McClellan,
Dear Soon-to-be-former Press Secretary Scott McClellan, (April 19, 2006)
When you rose to your post after Ari, looking for all intents and purposes like a headlight shot out of a deer, I thought you were stupid and contemptuous. Often I have pitied you. In time, however, much have I given you a grudging respect, admiring your [...]
DJ Preview Listings: 2003-4
SASHA (airdrawndagger)
You know you’re massive when you’re breaking through your own backlash. Sasha, who first got hooked on house at the Hacienda in 1987, virtually created the genre of UK progressive house with partner-in-crime and global heavyweight John Digweed. But as their residency at New York’s Twilo ended with the club’s collapse in 2001, the [...]
Unreading “Reloaded”
Unreading “Reloaded”
I’ve been told that coffee grounds, packed on top of cocaine, throw off the drug dogs. It’s only the clever sleuth who, combining intellect with instinct, can pick out the real Colombian Supremo from the wan commercial stuff brewed and filtered for general consumption.
The adage is, of course, as true for the critic as [...]
The Subway Chronicles
Dysfunctions and Other Observations: The Queensbound Journals
by David Schneider
AimlessOctober 28, 2004
The days are relentless and stalk me even in the blue mild autumn when the still green leaves converse in Queens. The subway at 100 is, as all geriatrics, demented and ornery. Last night all trains through Queensboro Plaza [...]
When Moses was in Nixon’s Land…
When Moses was in Nixon’s Land… (March 1, 2006)
As I was growing up in late-’70s America, as I received the sub-ether waves of ideological waves emanating from the television set (oh, and I watched much more of it, dear reader, than you know — but less than most even still) and from my parents and [...]
Herbivore Heaven
Herbivore heaven
Grazing at Shawn McClain’s new Green Zebra
David Schneider
I am an unrepentant carnivore, heir to the sins of the flesh. Around the familial dinner table, “sucking the marrow out of life” wasn’t Transcendentalist philosophy, but practical instruction. I can actually feel my canines descend slightly when contemplating [...]
(The Lack of) Leisure in America (October 2003)
Arrogance is a terrible thing. Not so much because it makes those whom it afflicts obnoxious, or as experience would have it, nationalistically minded, but because it dulls their analytical skills.
The above sentence isn’t an excoriation of the Bush administration’s Iraq policy – the most natural and obvious route from the enunciation of “arrogance” these [...]
Of Weasels and Whales: Iraq (October 10, 2002)
HAMLET: Do you see yonder cloud that’s almost in shape of a camel?
POLONIUS: By th’mass and ‘tis — like a camel indeed.
HAMLET: Methinks it is like a weasel.
POLONIUS: It is backed like a weasel.
HAMLET: Or like a whale.
POLONIUS: Very like a whale.
“The world changed on September 11.” Yes, surely, of course.
But which September 11 would [...]
Entering the Realms of the Unreal
Entering the Realms of the Unreal
February 17, 2006
According to the New York Times, four appeals are currently about to be argued in the Supreme Court March 1. The cases each allege that the Texas congressional redistricting (read: gerrymandering) that Tom Delay achieved in 2003 were for partisan purposes.
The White House has asked, and has been [...]
Truth is Called Theory Before Facts can Reveal
Truth is called Theory before Facts can Reveal
February 23, 2006
Following this Guardian article on the Bush administration’s insistence to go to war — even absent any evidence of Iraq’s WMD’s — and this lengthier assessment in the latest New York Review of Books, plus Bush’s most recent State of the Union address, I have come [...]
Stacks of Antiquated Oblongs
Stacks of antiquated oblongs
January 26, 2006
I’m reading again. Done with Houellebecq’s The Elementary Particles, which is very curious, clinically pornographic, largely pessimistic, and perhaps necessary. Wanted to put myself back into The Piano Teacher but I’m fairly sure The Girlfriend swiped it from its temporary placement on the floor of my study to use for [...]
A Thought
We scoff at intelligent design
but then:
the Galapagos were placed just so
for Darwin to find them.
