Aug 28: Here we see Hillary Clinton, Barack and Michelle Obama, and Joe Biden, lovin it, in a jeep.
Aug 14: Vacation last week! I was lucky to get an apartment to myself in Park Slope Brooklyn because my friend Madge
was visiting Pgh. I saw art at New Museum, Guggenheim, Whitney, Mann Gallery, Green Naftali, Cheim & Read, and at PPOW. I
got to eat well at Po, Red Cat (crispy skatewng with artichoke hearts and cold cucumber-herb sauce, mmm), pizza
at Twoo Boots, Telephone Bar & Grill (stilton fritters and cranberry relish, mmm), and Chip
Shop. I got to drive back and forth with Ian, and we heard Lila Downs at Prospect Park free. And a lovely visit with Mochan! And ate turkey burgers at my cousin MIke's
annual b-b-q! Walked Central Park with my uncle Joel ... and got to see the Mets win on the last at-bat. I walked a LOT, rode the subway, and had a pretty relaxin
time overall. Thanks NYC!
July 1: A home video (warning: Beastie Boys soundtrack) has been added on this page.
Mar 3: DC appreciation: found a room for $90/night five blocks from the White House ... decent Capitol tour from Rep
Doyle's staffer ... the Hirshhorn is amazing and in addition to being free and having a ton of great sculpture, has a great video show right now ... Dengue Fever was fun at the Black Cat, which (like all DC venues) is no smoking ... Tabard Inn: one of the best dinners out I've had in months ... the Metro and being able to walk almost everywhere really suits my vacation style ... It was sweet sharing gelato by the underground waterfall and seeing all the Calders with Sarah.
Jan 11: Don Allen car dealerships closing, the new
DOC-Economou Baum-Liberty site, and the media kit (best online renderings, though still very low-res).
Dec 13: Thanksgiving photos posted. ...All alone with me and we're waiting for the sunlight.
Oct 30: Fake FEMA press conference (link)
Vote for Luke; there was a debate Sunday (link)
Three Rivers Film Festival starts Friday (link)
Sep 11: There's an art opening at PCA on Friday in the main galleries building (which is yellow) and concurrently a student art show in the school building just up the hill. There should be a time capsule of Tova's in the student show, and it's really good! 5:30-8:00 this Friday the 14th.
Jul 31: Twenty-five years ago today I was getting bar-mitzvahed. ...My mom has been going out way more than me, as a volunteer usher. She told me recently that she thought Dweezil Zappa was better than Interpol. ...Saw 'Treasure of the Sierra Madre' on Sunday - thought it was only OK. Looking forward to 'This is England' at the end of Aug. Also, I've been simpsonized.
June 5: Happy birthday to Des! ...Just two new photos.
May 30: Got me a new car. Yay!
Apr 24: Reading suggestions. ...New record from Air and Gainsbourg.
Apr 18: Dropped off tax forms, out my car window to a friendly postal worker, on a street corner downtown just after 9pm in a continuation of anther great local tradition. ...Dynamite chicken. ...Moistworks.
Apr 5: Happy passover, all. ...720 podcast. ...Spoon and Weird Paul at CMU Carnival.
Mar 19: Waiter donates one night's tips each month as an arts grant. ...Paperrad in the latest ANP. ...pfetish.
Mar 14: Beware the ides! ...gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooogle.com ...Six retired generals that spoke out. ...'rock star without a band'.
Feb 25: My fave new candy. ...An old Neil Young song. ...Dan Cohen's now CEO of pageflakes. ...Check out Glyphjockey. ...Congrats to Jeff R! ...Some new photos finally.
Jan 3: The latest chapter in PATransit woes. The P-G reported in Nov that what had
been estimated to be a $31.5mil deficit in this year's $347.5mil operating budget would end up at about $20 million as a result of savings and a few small gains in revenue.
Weren't these gains in revenue due in some great part to high gasoline prices? I believe public transit, and less so the roads and bridges maintenance, are a matter of
security. Maybe not "national security" but call it what you like - maybe "commonwealth security." If there were really some emergency, it would of course be easier to
make sure 8 bus depots were supplied with gasoline, instead of 2000 private gasoline stations. Add a dollar to the state gasoline tax, which will both push people to use the
public transit more, and fund the shortfalls in the state budget for transit and road and bridge maintenance. I hate when Orie and other state senators want to say this is a
regional and not a state problem.
Dec 7: Luke to Stillers: thx for grease! ...Good-bye Capital Asset Research!
Dec 6: Long time no post! Happy Thanksgiving you two remaining readers! ... Design disease ... GfY ... Bill Miller.
Oct 22: 3rff schedule online. ...pghalleycat.
Oct 5: Some images from Fox about the Foley scandal - 1, 2, 3.
Sep 7: Pittsburgh podcasts - icewhistle and hardtravelin.
Aug 22: New Gladwell. ...Vintage video mag Radical Software.
Aug 16: Mazel tov to the new parents — Aimee and Andy, proud parents of Donovan Noel Johnson (8/8/06, 7 lbs 7.4 oz 20 in), and Boris and Erika, begetters of Finn Ansgar Bartlog (8/14/06, 8 lbs 8 oz, 20 in)!
Aug 3: Film things I should be collecting in the column at right: invisiblecinema, theeveningclass.
Jul 28: 412 going national: Girl Talk reviewed in Pitchfork; Yaris picks Budai to illustrate their whole site!
Jul 17: Beat the heat with all the Vader scenes from Star Wars (ep4), with the dialogue replaced by words James Earl Jones said in other films - video.
Jul 5: Thanks again to Sheila, Erika, Theresa and Carol for donations this weekend to casa de la 38th!
Jun 29: New partisan project. ...Movie trailers 1919-present. ...Spent last night at new address! :-)
Jun 14: Tonight on Dave - Colbert, Mark Cuban, and Neko Case. Life's jes that exciting.
Jun 5: Happy birthday, D.Mo! Thanks to Jen and all the guests for making such a great party!
Jun 1: Starting tomorrow, the annual TRAF: art, plus free concerts including Andrew Bird, Eels, Tragically Hip.
May 29: Had you been in Allentown this weekend, you might have gone to Mayfair and Yocco's and La Placita Mexico.
May 18: Guvnor Ed visits Fri at 4:30 (225 Ross St; if rain, City-County Building Portico at 414 Grant).
May 15: If Charlie Parker were a gunslinger... Don Caballero and Zombi this Friday.
May 8: Happening all week: greek food fest in Oakland. ...Starting Friday, Silk Screen FF.
May 2: The saddest thing you own. ...The Clash live in 1980, part 1 and part 2.
Apr 27: Congrats to John Allen Gibel, local video artist and Filmmakers artist member, on the very nice mention on p26 of the new New Yorker.
Apr 24: Fresh photos: Desi Loses His Long Hair. ...This coming weekend: Carp and Art All Night, and Washington Antiques Fair.
Apr 10: This is what you get for a handful of shekels these days. ...Cinetrix is at Full Frame Film Fest - 1, 2, 3. ...This Saturday the 15th, Zombi at Gooski's.
Mar 30: Tomorrow night - Lost Film Fest, free at CMU.
Mar 24: Tonight at 31st street pub: Exene, just $10! With the Cheats.
Mar 13: Tonight at 9 at Brillobox: The Skinks, Eagle Seagull, Boxstep. ...Friday at Howlers: microwaves, Magic Wolf, Sh*t Mayor.
Mar 6: I think Jon Stewart started a bit slow but lots of funny stuff in the show. The Colbert fake ads were great, and I thought Ben Stiller was great - he even read the nominees' names funny. Stewart had a couple of great lines after 36Mafia won. I liked Clooney's speech and I thought the president of the academy's speech was great too. Streep and Tomlin were excellent, and Streep might have been the best dressed of the night. I teared up when Witherspoon talked about her granny. I am a sucker for this show every year. Altman gave a good speech. Overall it was a good show I thought. I felt terrible for Lauren Bacall - she should have gotten a standing ovation as soon as she appeared on stage, and they gave her this huge introduction to say. Compare it with the three-line intro they wrote for Samuel Jackson to say, and it was just not right.
Mar 1: Katrina c'est mort. Laissez bontemps roulez!
Feb 16: PNC scores $2bn in deal, just days after getting city tax break. Then, councilman who approved the tax break worries we are giving too many.
Feb 15: Places you can go: vcomp, cereality.
Feb 10: This blog never includes real writing. Mebbe as Bovier says, it's time for a change of pace. Now that I'm rockin it (more like emo-ing it) single stizz, you can see me regularly mopin it quietly and catching some great tunes at the hott spots of the east end. And that means I can see you too. Though long gone from the blogworld, I seen Jilly the other day; and long-since-returned-to-town is scenemacher Juli, looking better than ever and helping to make me feel not too too old (thx also to George and Lloyd for this ;). Guess everyone, even Ms Frannie, 's going to the t-shizz show tonight; not sure I'm feeling up to it. ...I think I know what my first-in-forever magazine piece is going to be on. Okay, I knew the confessional staww wasn't my thing. Bye.
Feb 8: Congrats to the Steelers! And nice job by 200k people at the parade. ...This is a good reason to give $20 today to Common Cause. ...On NSA spying, from former WSJ and Nat'l Review editor.
Feb 2: Three new photos. ...5_trope. ...Tomorrow, We're Wolves and Black Tie Revue at 31st St.
Jan 24: Some how I missed the intro of this new mag. ...Go Stillers!
Jan 18: I wonder if this news really means savings for the city, or just a shift in police spending. The P-G doesn't get into the politics of why a supposedly good commander is being moved from a higher-crime area to the new mayor's neighborhood, doesn't comment on the mayor's seemingly large influence on decisions that would seem best suited to the police chief (the mayor just replaced the chief with a temp, who'll be followed by a cop who's not been on the Pgh force in years). City council seems out-of-the-loop on this, especially, though not surprisingly, Twanda Carlisle (chairwoman of council's Public Safety Committee). And no comment from anyone in the police union leadership? ...Congrats to the Union Project.
Jan 10: Upcoming rock show news - AirAxeMag and Modey Lemon, Jan 21, 10pm at Gooski's. Don't be a fool. ...Better late than never: Hanukkah in Santa Monica (5.2 Mb).
Jan 3: Happy frickin frackin new year. Thanks again to Andrew, Lesley, Sheila, Ken, and Joel for hosting me over Xmas weekend. And special thanks to the special person who turned my nice new year's eve into a hell. ...In regional religious news, the founder of 'His Place' died.
Dec 19: Intra-US spying, then and now.
Dec 6: Meanwhile at my alma mater, there's this story about this piece of tripe (nsfw) movie.
Dec 5: Dems find Iraq pullout plan elusive? Put together some forces from other countries, preferably neighboring countries, to replace our troops. ...Regarding my last post, about the symphony: djhlights replied, "The PSO gets a million in RAD funding because it is specifically earmarked for the PSO international touring which is done every year. They have consistantly received this amount for the past several years to help w the cost of the tour and in support of the international recognition the city receives from the touring." To which I say: pheh. That is a silly reason to give one group a million every year. How about they get that money once every 10 years and, for the other nine, we sponsor tours for nine other groups?
Dec 3: Fresh photos. ...Doesn't $1m for the Symphony seem a bit high? ...Best of best of 2005.
Nov 29: US Congressman resigns after pleading guilty to taking millions in bribes from defense contractors.
Nov 23: Meet John Rendon. ...Mod furnishings. ...Nice mp3s.
Nov 3: A pair of out-of-town writeups on the film fest - WaPo and Greencine.
Nov 1: You can see me tomorrow night at 7:30 on WQED-TV, talk about the film fest.
Oct 31: Dug the Kertesz and van Gogh shows.
Oct 27: Floyd Skloot coming to town.
Oct 24: Lunch this Thursday with Mayor Murphy, Chris Moore, Evan Stoddard and Patricia Besson. ...caseyvsantorum.blogs.com. ...Aesthetics lecture today.
Oct 23: Happy Birthday, Tova Rae! Also born on this day: Augusten Burroughs, Sam Raimi, 'Weird' Al Yankovic, Dwight Yoakam, Pelé, 'Baby' Jan Holzer, and Johnny Carson.
Oct 21: The festival films and schedule are finalized, and the guide is at the printer. Here's the lineup – At Last,
Ballets Russes,
Beyond the Rocks,
Blackmail,
Breakfast on Pluto,
Côte d’Azur,
Darwin’s Nightmare,
Das Bus,
Dear Wendy,
Derailroaded,
Dogplayers,
Dorian Blues,
Dumpster,
Electric Edwardians,
Film Kitchen,
Filmic Achievement,
Harlan County, USA,
Harry Knuckles and the Pearl Necklace,
Iron Island,
Jesus, Mary and Joey,
Keane,
La Petite Jérusalem,
The Last Victory,
Local Short Films,
Lost Embrace,
Manderlay,
The Memsahib,
Mutual Appreciation,
My Beautiful Girl Mari,
Nickelodeon 5-Cent Screening,
The Ninth Day,
The President’s Last Bang,
Pride and Prejudice,
Pure,
Reel Paradise,
Shorts Competition Programs,
The Squid and the Whale,
SQUONKumentary,
Story of a Fructiferous Society,
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm,
À Tout de Suite,
Video Data Bank Program,
Why We Fight,
William Eggleston in the Real World,
The World,
The World’s Fastest Indian,
X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes.
Oct 13: Two new from Chan Marshall, one with Handsome Boy Modeling School, and one from her forthcoming jawn.
Oct 10: Casey gets some general help from the P-G, but this is still a piece about Santorum. I want to know
about the money lining up behind Casey, and I'd sure love to hear Casey question war
profiteering vs increasing employment by enlarging the armed forces, and senators who take their
marching orders from radical government shrinkers and radical malists.
...the conglomerate.
Oct 5: In a couple Sundays, Augusten Burroughs visits. ...This Friday, MLemon CD release at Mr Small's.
Oct 3: Check it aht - yinzer.net. ...One month to 3RFF.
Sep 26: Tonight's the final, free, late-nite tour of the great Richardson jail.
Sep 21: Aehhhhhhhh happy autumn. Yuengling, which has been so good to us, had to bail as beer sponsor for the film fest. But KDKA-AM is in, which is big. ...New Modey Lemon. ...CnL.
Sep 12: Tomorrow night – membership meeting at Pgh Filmmakers, and Jessica Fenlon reads new poems at Spotted Salamander. ...Thursday, Circle at 31st St. ...Pgh Sculptors annual, online.
Sep 9: This Sunday, Cindy Sheehan in Pgh. ...James Reece & the Progressions, from 1969: m4a.
Sep 6: Condi in eye of storm. ...Thu, Of Montreal.
Sep 2: In the spirit of not busting on the federal government in the middle of the crisis, here's something smart about the New Orleans disaster, by David Brooks. ...Songs by Thee More Shallows - one, two.
Sep 1: Last weekend in Boston was great - Nathanial was amazing during his bar mitzvah, and it was a pleasure to meet some relatives for the first time, especially some from Boroughpark and Israel. Chanan, good luck in locksmith school. ...What's sure to be one of Pgh's finest blogs: FMT. ...Tomorrow night: Caustic Christ, Pay Toilets, Warzone Womyn @ Howler's Coyote Cafe. Sat night: What Is It? at the Oaks.
Aug 25: New New Pornographers. ...See Medium Cool on Sunday and tell me how it was - I have to go out of town.
Aug 19: I didn't notice this for a week - Baghdad Mayor Is Ousted by a Shiite Group and Replaced. ...Sat nite: GBuffet, Sunday night: Wild Bunch.
Aug 3: Pgh Dish. ...This is closing weekend of "To Gillian..." at Red Barn Theater. ...New Salt and new Unicorn Mountain releases this weekend. Friday at Howlers in Bloomfield - TSLL and Microwaves; Saturday at Gooski's - Oneida and DFaces. Friday - Gogan photo opening.
Aug 1: Happy birthday, to my cousins Mike Ser and Mark Glazer. ... Saw Mysterious Skin last week and Me and You and Everyone We Know this weekend; both are recommended.
Jul 27: New Jarmusch film with Bill Murray. ...Today's the anniversary of the 1st "illegal" meeting opposing the Whiskey Excise tax.
Jul 22: Tomorrow - vid art, then WPoor/DFaces/HBrains at 31st St. ...mp3s at gvb.
Jul 13: Born this day – Nathan Bedford Forrest, Isaac Babel, Harrison Ford, and myself. So, dinner out out.
Jul 11: Shauna Marowitz called from NY; x your fingers w me. ...You may have just missed D. Faces and the clean-cut Constantines (audio) at GA.
Jul 9: Friday night was video art at Wood St., brief stop at Future Tenant, then great screening of Boom with Dean Novotny standing in for the missing 2d reel.
Jul 6: Your land is my land.
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