Here’s one you won’t find on YouTube. RealityStudio just posted it. William S. Burroughs, filmmaker Antony Balch and I made it 35 years ago in Burroughs’s London flat. It was an experiment, primitive yet precise, in a particular shape-shifting technique. Coincidentally, RealityStudio has also posted an overview of an international symposium about William S. Burroughs, […]
Archives for September 2006
TEARS OF BULLSHIT
It’s straight out of soap opera: “Tears welled up. … He hugged her, held her face, kissed her cheek.” In fact, it’s a description of the war anguish in private, as the Washington Post headline says. Not so private that a reporter didn’t report the scene. Not so private that it didn’t make The Post’s
NOT JUST ‘OURSELVES ALONE’
Words of wisdom: “The older I get the less I believe in fundamentalism of any kind.” — Sinn Féin, speaking yesterday at the Council on Foreign Relations. Here’s “Clinton got a blow job.” EmailFacebookTwitterReddit
SLAM BAM THANK YOU GLAM
Vogue Italia had caught our attention, apropos
MoMA’S KID-GLOVE TREATMENT
A friend writes: No feelings were hurt in this week’s kid-gloves New Yorker story by Calvin Tomkins on the Museum of Modern Art, which opens its education center next month, two years after its was supposed to be finished as part of the museum’s half-billion dollar corporate-style expansion on 53rd Street. There was no dissection […]
OBJECTION NOTED
EILEEN FISHER, Inc., a most loyal, most fashionable, most successful advertiser: Dear Mr. Herman We read your comments regarding the placement of our ad in The New York Times Magazine on August 27, 2006 and would like to respond. EmailFacebookTwitterReddit
MOONED IN THE OVAL OFFICE
I’ve never been in a room with the That’s former Texas-Ranger-turned-Montana-defense-lawyer Billy Bob Holland talking about a shit heel U.S. senator in It’s hard to go further downhill from there, but Brooks manages: I interview politicians for a living, and every time I brush against Bush I’m reminded that this guy is different. There’s none […]
POST MORTEM
A friend writes: I tried to avoid most of the media coverage of 9/11’s fifth anniversary. I found it too maudlin. When JFK was assassinated, there was — in addition to commentary, flashbacks and on-the- spot reporting — an extraordinary amount of serious classical music programming, including majestic masses and Te Deums by Mozart and […]
BEST 9/11 MEMORIAL
It’s up again tonight.
9/11: THE DAY OF, THE DAY AFTER, THE WEEK AFTER
Starting when the news broke, my report grew longer by the minute. It ran, updated in real time, as MSNBC.com’s cover story. I cobbled together eye-witness accounts — my own, those of others from MSNBC and the Associated Press — writing and rewriting as the catastrophe mounted. NEW YORK, Sept. 11 — It was the […]
NO PARKING FOR 9/11’S FIFTH
Five years later his nose is out of joint, but he’s still the Metro (scroll down), one of the free daily tabs in New York. Council on Foreign Relations on the eve of 9/11’s fifth anniversary. Though useful as a recap of the R. P. Eddy, a counterterrorism expert, that “the terrorists of the next […]
NAKED
This week in Mexico City: