Cheetohs of Mass Destruction

Tom Moody has a post about a novel that sounds like a possible precursor to The Matrix: Wolfbane by Frederick Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth. Go read his description.

While you’re there also read what he has to say about the sculptures by Ross Knight at the entrance to the Sculpture Center. I loved those when we went to the opening of the Kabakov show, plus the In Practice Projects group show, featuring a lot of good and fun art, including an audio piece on personal hygiene by Nicolás Dumit Estévez in the restrooms.

I wrote about this play after we saw it a year ago.

You now have another chance to see it, February 6 – 29, 2004.

The Civilians

To buy tickets

Here is another post I did on The Civilians and their show “Gone Missing.”

Their fundraisers are always fun, and I’m on the benefit committee, so if you want to hear about the next one, please send me your mailing address.

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Update: We’re going on the 14th. It’s $25 instead of $15 on that date, but it’s a benefit for Dixon Place and there is a reception afterward. What, you think we would eat out on V-day in this city?

I just got rid of my first email address: hoggardb@panix.com, circa 1993. It had become too spamalicious.

Jeffy Whitty (of Avenue Q fame) has a play, The Hiding Place, at Atlantic Theater (the 16th Street location) through January 25. He manages to be very funny plus put in some very smart commentary on theater, the visual arts, and the literary world. The whole cast is great, but I really loved Susan Parfour, and I would go see Kate Blumberg in anything.

From the Daily Mirror:

SHE WAS at Winston Churchill’s side during Britain’s darkest hour. And now Charlie the parrot is 104 years old…and still cursing the Nazis

Her favourite sayings were “Fuck Hitler” and “Fuck the Nazis”. And even today, 39 years after the great man’s death, she can still be coaxed into repeating them with that unmistakable Churchillian inflection.

Many an admiral or peer of the realm was shocked by the tirade from the bird’s cage during crisis meetings with the PM.

But it always brought a smile to the war leader’s face.

For my readers in Miami, here is a recommendation. My friend Sharon Louden has an installation at Ambrosino Gallery:

Sharon Louden

Glow Room
site specific installation,
project room exhibition

January 23-February 29, 2004
opening reception: Friday, January 23, 7-10pm

The Bush regime doesn’t even have to pretend to care about appearances any more. Americans don’t seem to care.

From the LA Times:

Vice President Dick Cheney and Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia spent part of last week duck hunting together at a private camp in southern Louisiana just three weeks after the court agreed to take up the vice president’s appeal in lawsuits over his handling of the administration’s energy task force.

While Scalia and Cheney are avid hunters and longtime friends, several experts in legal ethics questioned the timing of their trip and said it raised doubts about Scalia’s ability to judge the case impartially.

But Scalia rejected that concern Friday, saying, “I do not think my impartiality could reasonably be questioned.”

Federal law says “any justice or judge shall disqualify himself in any proceeding in which his impartiality might be questioned.” For nearly three years, Cheney has been fighting demands that he reveal whether he met with energy industry officials, including Kenneth L. Lay when he was chairman of Enron, while he was formulating the president’s energy policy.

[via TalkLeft]

The latest from David Rees is now up.

Also, he’ll be doing a short presentation tonight. It will mark the public debut of the new comic, “Adventures of Confessions of Saint Augustine Bear.”

Cafe Barbes
376 9th Street
Park Slope, Brooklyn
(718) 965-9177
7:30 PM
$2.00

Just ask Mac about her new book.