…and Matt Lauer is his enabler. “I really don’t care about perceptions at this point in time. … I’m a content man.”— George W. Bush Postscript: Nov. 7 — It’s worth mentioning Robert Fisk’s perceptions in this context. He writes almost daily, and his stuff is incomparable. These two recent columns are just two back-to-back […]

Gone. He was a real mensch. I had a short conversation with him in 2006 and asked him a few questions on the chance that he’d actually give me an answer. Which he did. This is what he said: Ted Sorensen’s Italics and Starry Rearview Mirror. (Crossposted at HuffPo) Postscript: Nov. 3 — And now […]

Stephen Fry Kinetic Typography – Language from Matthew Rogers on Vimeo. Thanks for the tip, Tom. EmailFacebookTwitterReddit

Via the Bureau of Investigative Journalism. Thank you. EmailFacebookTwitterReddit

Here’s the launch video: And here’s their Web site. EmailFacebookTwitterReddit

“The Unnatural Act Act,” by Norman O. Mustill [1974], is from the collectionof Knud Petersen. It appeared originally in a Copenhagen Fluxus show. More Mustill. EmailFacebookTwitterReddit

Never mind the solemn hyperbole of this “leaked memo,” which comes via MoveOn.org. It does tell the real story: The Cabal of Multinational Corporations is pleased to formally announce RepubliCorpTM, a new combined entity following our complete merger with the Republican Party. RepubliCorpTM combines the ethics-free campaigning savvy of the GOP with the limit-free spending […]

We are all BananaRepublicans. Obama has claimed the right to assassinate American citizens whom he suspects of “terrorism,” merely on the grounds of his own suspicion or that of the CIA, something Bush never claimed publicly.” — The World Can’t Wait Also, “Obama says that the government can detain you indefinitely, even if you have […]

May I add an annex to The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today, which is now on in New York at The Museum of Modern Art? The MoMA show features works by lotsa biggies — Atget, Bellmer, Brancusi, Brassaï, Duchamp, Frank, Friedlander, Gaillard, Höch, Kertész, Man Ray, Nauman, and too many others to […]

Went to see the exhibition “Experimental Women in Flux” at the MoMA Library. There was much to like, although it’s a small exhibit. I got a kick out of this feminist blast: fluxus can be lots of fun when the boys let you on their boatsometimes they throw you off the boatyou have to be […]

When Barack Obama rebuffed calls for an independent truth commission, choosing not to investigate George W. Bush and his cronies as war criminals, he forfeited whatever moral authority he might have had as president. In his Aug. 31 Oval Office speech announcing “the end of the combat mission in Iraq” he even heaped praise on […]

Yes, we know about 9/11. We’re still reeling from it. The event itself was catastrophic. But the pols and war profiteers have put it to ruinous use ever since. So I’ll save my customary Best 9/11 Memorial posting for next year, when the 10th anniversary comes around. Besides, how many times can you post Still […]

Have a look at the Web site for the Fluxus exhibition Experimental Women in Flux at the Museum of Modern Art Library. The curators write: In the spirit of MoMA’s publication of Modern Women: Women Artists at The Museum of Modern Art in June 2010, the Museum Library features experimental works by women that form […]

Abbie Conant, that is — the trombonist, actor, singer, poet, feminist, and professor, whom Malcolm Gladwell wrote about in Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking. EmailFacebookTwitterReddit

The last time I mentioned Supervert, the nom de plume of a writer I know, the headline, Better Than a Review, referred to a YouTube video that a fan made about Supervert’s latest book, Perversity Think Tank. The other day, an interview with Supervert showed up on the Web site Dark Markets that led me […]

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I once asked Nelson Algren what he thought of Naked Lunch. He was living in Hackensack, N.J., getting by on Social Security and whatever he won at Aqueduct. He still wrote the occasional book review and received small but steady royalties from his two most famous novels, The Man With the Golden Arm and A […]