Being a good, God-fearing, church-going Catholic, I decided to spend yesterday’s holiday drinking and watching the season finale of Showtime’s The L Word. I can’t think of a better way to commemorate the second coming of the biggest of all L words: The Lord. Honestly, if you think about it, it makes about as much sense as [...]
Archive for May 2008
The New Kids on the Block performed on the Today Show last week. Watch it: I don’t know. This upsets me a little. I’m not sure why. Oh, maybe it’s because the New Kids are close to 40 and are performing a medley of their hit songs from when they were 17. Because it’s painful [...]
For some reason, there’s barely anything coming out this weekend. I think it’s God’s way of telling you to go outside and fly a kite. The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian The Plot: The kids return to Narnia. One of them has sex with a fawn. It’s awkward. Is it worth eleven dollars?: No. There [...]
Last night I met with the greatest book group ever, Booklyn (yeah, you wish you’d thought of that clever name), at South Slope’s Quarter Bar. Located on 5th Avenue and 20th Street, the bar has been up and running for less than a year, and is a real find. What they have been getting the [...]
West Virigina votes today. It’s interesting to see how this has all been shaping up lately. Each of the candidates trying hard to connect with the hard working types of the midwest…ish..ness. First, Obama picks up a masculine centric game that doesn’t end in embarassment. Pool. By the way I’ve tried that behind-the-back shot several [...]
Clinton wins…with 0% reporting. Okay.
The lineup for the Sirens Festival (aka the sweatiest, smelliest festival in Brooklyn) has been announced. It includes bands like Broken Social Scene, Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks (which I recently learned is a combination of the words “dick” and “jerk”), The Helio Sequence and These Are Powers. Sounds fun. The festival is at Coney Island on [...]
The lineup for the Sirens Festival (aka the sweatiest, smelliest festival in Brooklyn) has been announced. It includes bands like Broken Social Scene, Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks (which I recently learned is a combination of the words “dick” and “jerk”), The Helio Sequence and These Are Powers. Sounds fun. The festival is at Coney Island on [...]
About a year ago I was invited to see Monster Eiffel Tower, a Brooklyn Rock trio who were playing at the Knitting Factory. I was not particularly excited to go to the show. For starters, their music was described to me as being a little harder and more experimental than my usual tastes. There was a [...]
My previous discussion of the Brooklyn Blogfest was marred by the assertion that the event was awash in “self-congratulation and self-promotion.” Not that I actually wrote that – Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn did – but that was the general idea behind one paragraph. I think that probably hurt some feelings. The actual point of [...]