I finally saw Cindy Sherman’s film Office Killer.
Wow. It really is awful. Good cast (Molly Ringwald, Carol Kane, Barbara Sukowa), some nice shots, great score, but it’s really a mess. I knew a couple of people that worked on the production, and they weren’t kidding about how badly it turned out.
Beautiful, beautiful post about queerness, Gus Van Sant, Michael Chabon, etc.
An essay by a writer on his first muse: his Sicilian grandmother.
I should get one.
… are going speak up as soon as it seems like the right time — Tom Tomorrow.
James says I should take credit, but I doubt it’s my doing. The NY Daily News has an article about the White House denying “it did anything wrong by sitting on the bombshell disclosure that North Korea had nuclear weapons until after securing the congressional okay to attack Iraq.”
Another interesting thing, given the Daily News publisher’s and editorial board’s support for bombing Iraq, is that there are a number of anti-war letters in today’s Voice of the People. I’ll quote part of my favorite one:
You dilldocks! President Bush isn’t FDR, he’s Japanese Emperor Hirohito, attacking a country that hasn’t attacked his just because he sees a threat.
I saw this when it was just a workshop production at Target Margin‘s Ring Festival. I just got a card in the mail about a full production of it. I’m there!
I still have this flu-like thing going, but I went for a few hours to this DUMBO festival. It was pretty cool, and there were a HUGE number of people there. I think DUMBO is already becoming Williamsburg-esque.
Highlights:
Nina Levy sculptures at Metaphor
Fabulous design and furniture at a new architecture firm called FREECELL. Also, check out their cool bookmobile project with artist books and zines. They will be at Cooper Union October 29-31.
Open Studios (just for the festival) — especially Andrea Cohen, David Baskin, and Torsten Zenas Burns; and the current exhibit, from Smack Mellon.
I don’t normally link to anything that has my real name from this site, but I couldn’t help myself this time. I’m the top letter in the “Voice of the People” in today’s NY Daily News!
The letter is about what I discussed earlier, that I find it outrageous that the Bush administration knew about North Korea’s nuclear program before the vote on the Iraq resolution, but didn’t tell Congress until afterward.