Too many websites!
April 2, 2008 – 7:39 amIt’s been weeks since I’ve updated here. I’m having this site redesigned (new version up soon) as more of a clearinghouse for some of my writing so if you’ve stumbled on this you should probably click over to Pinko for the latest on green-collar jobs and Chelsea Clinton at a leather bar and whatever else I’m writing about most regularly. Also I have a new distraction I’ve created with my roommate: A tribute to the delicious and highly-tender breakfast burrito at Cafe Shane near my house. That’s about it, though I have a couple of articles coming out in late April that I’m excited about.
As a prize for reading, I’ll leave you with Blanche and Rose euphemistically discussing cupcakes:
Some updates
January 28, 2008 – 1:08 pmA few quick things: If you didn’t see Barack Obama’s speech from South Carolina, you should. No to empire! Uhm also … this weekend I’m “guest hosting” RadioNation with Laura Flanders on Air America; I produce the show regularly … “hosting” is in quotes because we’re acutally just running an edited panel discussion from an event last night in Los Angeles. Still, I will be talking into a microphone type device and introducing the panel to all 6 of our listeners, so I’m excited. Its 2-3 Saturdays and 1-2 Sundays on Air America, or up at The Nation every Monday. The panel is a good one too:
“What’s Missing? What Matters? Beyond the Bush Era: Progressives and Election ‘08.” A panel on what needs to be done to reclaim and rebuild our country. Sponsored by The Hammer Museum and The Nation. Featuring Katrina vanden Heuvel, Naomi Klein, Patricia J. Williams and Richard Kim. Moderated by Robert Scheer.
Lastly Pinko is rolling along. We have added several contributors and have some good pieces up on carbon calculators, vegan smores, Haley Joel-Osmont and “hope-boating,” a term I think we coined relative to the current election.
Watch Cloverfield or Juno, Join National Guard.
January 28, 2008 – 12:55 pmSaw Cloverfield last night, and enjoyed it quite a bit. (Two reactions though — neither one a spoiler — (1) uhm … ewww, re: Marlena’s eventual fate and (2) That is NOT the Spring Street 6 station.) Anyway, I was disturbed to see a completely over the top, total bullshit National Guard recruitment propaganda ad running before the film. The same brainwash ad also ran before Juno. The ad (which I’ll post in full after the jump) isn’t really an ad at all — its a fully produced, three and a half minute music video by cock-rockers Three Doors Down. There’s football. There’s guns and helicopters and exploding cannons. (wtf do we still use those?) And, natch, there is the steaming, flaming, heaping burning rubble of the World Trade Center.
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Couple of things
January 13, 2008 – 1:51 pmFunny doings over at Pinko … a brilliant little quiz comparing quotes by Karl Rove, Hillary Clinton and Batman Begins villain Ra’s Al Ghul. It’s harder than you think! Stirling also redesigned the site and we added some ads; its a project that may have some legs to it yet. Do give a look if you haven’t before.
Also my latest required election reading is Maureen Dowd’s column Wednesday after the New Hampshire primary; while generally I think “MoDo” is too cool for school and glazes over serious policy issues, she raises the terrifying specter of what the next few weeks will likely bring: Hillary Clinton having to campaign against hope, against idealism and against optimism to try and win the nomination. It’s worth a look.
Oh — if you found yourself here because you googled me and could give a shit about MoDo, Pinko or “serious policy issues,” I have new pictures on facebook where I’m kissing babies, wearing funny sunglasses and modeling a hot new jacket.
Pinko!
December 30, 2007 – 5:05 pmMy dear friend Stirling and I are basically commies who hate freedom. We also love to eat organic chocolate, encourage gratuitous safe sex, get totally psyched when Mike Huckabee wants to quarantine someone, and we would sell Stirling’s baby if we could have and ride this insane bamboo bicycle. Somehow that adds up to Pinko Magazine, the web venture we launched in November. Big picture Pinko lives at the intersection of hedonism and activism. Specifically, I hope you’ll click over there if you want to read my recent news about foreskin, Michael Jackson, Mike Bloomberg and loomstate organic tshirts. Even better, you should click over there for the (soon to be more regular) Gay Marry It, Or Abort It? feature, our stab at a what’s hot/what’s not zeigeist monitor.
Hitchens and Hanukkah
December 30, 2007 – 4:54 pmWrote this up for Jewcy.com last month; hopefully I’ll be blogging for them a bit more next year. While it does veer into a brief fantasy involving softball, its mostly a response to Christopher Hitchens recent screed against the festival of lights.
Please don’t vote for Hillary
December 30, 2007 – 4:49 pmLast month I wrote this piece for Huffington Post summing up “The Case for the Eight,” a great series from my current employer, The Nation magazine, where leading progressives made their case for each of the eight Democratic presidental contenders. While I laud the magazine for presenting a fair and balanced view of each, I can’t help but tack on what I consider the OTHER essential election reading from The Nation this year: Hillary, Inc., about the nebulous right-wing ties of Hillary Clinton and her campaign. I don’t have friends who are busting unions or doing PR work for Blackwater. Should our President?