They appeared to have changed the caption to this picture in the online version of the story about the raid on a London Mosque.
My print edition had this:
Lost your chewing gum?
I was shocked when I saw this. What’s next? Asking Jews at the Wailing Wall whether that’s a nervous tic?
Here is where I’ll be for the anti-war demo on February 15.
Note that there is still no march permit. NYC has refused to grant one so far.
France is quietly preparing its military in case it decides to join the new Gulf war.
Dude, where’s my war?
Lou Harrison, an important American composer, who was a sweet gay artist and activist, has died at 85. I had the honor of meeting him and his lover a few years ago.
There are few people one meets that give one the feeling of gentle saintliness. I felt that way when I met him, and I felt that way when I met Paul Cadmus.
Two artists in Nacogdoches create their own memorial to the astronauts.
The reproduction of Picasso’s “Guernica” at the United Nations has been covered up because it was an inappropriate background for the U.S. Ambassador to have while talking about war. See also: NY Times.
Sunday’s NY Times had a column by Thomas Friedman on Iraq/American/Europe that was laughably bad. I can’t believe it even ran. I wanted to write something about it, but Tom Coates at plasticbag.org has done a much better job.
Much of the audience and presenters for the Goyas — Spain’s equivalent of the Oscars — wore anti-war pins.
