I finally met Cory Arcangel and heard him perform with his sister Jamie. We got to see from home videos from their childhood, when they had a goth-ish/death metal band called “Insectiside”. They did two songs live — very cool stuff. Another highlight was a video of Jamie as a child, complete with knee pads and other 80s accoutrements, dancing to Vanilla Ice’s, “Ice Ice Baby”. There! Now you have that damn song running through your head too!

James already did all of the research and made nice links, so go see his post and photos.

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Here are some more photos — link via Tom Moody.

The NY Times printed a letter today which talked about activists complaining that the cure for AIDS is too expensive, or being promoted too heavily. Did we find a cure and no one told me?

AIDS Is Not a Glamorous Disease (5 Letters)

To the Editor:

In the mid-1980’s, the complaint was that a cure for AIDS was not being developed quickly enough. In the mid-90’s, the complaint was that the cure was too expensive. Now Harvey Fierstein (Op-Ed, July 31) argues that the cure is promoted too aggressively. What are pharmaceutical companies to do? The wonder is that they have invested any money at all in trying to find a cure for an infection so “completely avoidable.”

I am grateful that these companies have taken the financial risk and discovered treatments, however imperfect. Let them advertise any way they choose. The only people who believe that advertising can cause people to engage in risky behavior are the ad men themselves.

TED S. LEVY
Weston, Conn., July 31, 2003

Letter to the editor may be to letters@nytimes.com.

Pandagon follows the <a title="Weblog Entry – 08/04/2003: “Gay Marriage And Kids”" href=“http://www.pandagon.net/archives/00001430.htm”>Gay Marriage And Kids</a> debate to its logical conclusions.

Check out Free Williamsburg’s article on the Chunkathalon.

I’ve deleted a few weblogs from my links page. I realized that some people I know actually link to A Small Victory, which is one of the more popular right-wing blogs it seems, despite her racism towards anyone who isn’t Christian or Jewish. She’s the kind of person who says racism or anti-semitism offends her, and then gladly keeps comments which talk about how Arabs are the scum of the earth and how the world would be better off if the Palestinians were all killed — example.

Anyone linking to sites such as that one is now gone from the list.

I think I’ll be staying inside, catching up with my Netflix queue. This is the current forecast on Yahoo! Weather:

Ayleen from the Portland Crew has posted some images from Chunkathalon 2003, including one you will not want to miss of Zach…

The Bush Administration’s Top 40 Lies About War and Terrorism

Adam Felber asks us for help to save his marriage, which is threatened by the thought of it being a club that gay people might be allowed to join.

• See Phantom Arch show at White Columns — today (August 2 until 6pm) is the last day
• See the Summer of HTML Tour concert at TEAM Gallery — Sunday, August 3rd; 7:30pm-10pm