(via Brian Turner) (via my close personal friend Karl Lagerfeld, whose email address I have)

drunkblogging the crankysphere

WRITING IS A PERFORMANCE AND HOW MANY PLAYS HAVE BEEN PERFORMED IN AUGUST RESPECTABLE THEATERS IN NEW YORK CITY BY DRUNK ACTORS IS THIS A PROPER SCHOOL OF ACTING? DRUNK ACTING? GUYS, I’M WASTED AND HERE I AM ON THE INTERNET, HOLDING MY fIREHOSE I’M THE CLEVERSEST PERSIMMON IN THE BUCKET AND THE BUCKET IS [...]

sorry, new york

I shook a dead cat, elegant and invertebrate, out of the bag. Now the cat’s out of the bag. I’m in New York City. Every person here is John Lennon doing a spot-on impression of Lou Reed inside of Andy Warhol’s large intenstine. Just kidding. Every person here is either a cabdriver, an ethnobotanist, or [...]

VOW in NYC

VOW in NYC tomorrow: WEDNESDAY, MAY 27th 2009, 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. HOUSING WORKS BOOKSTORE CAFE 126 CROSBY STREET NEW YORK, NY 10012 “click to enlarge”

Can’t Come In

Yesterday while mopping (aka playing Zamboni’s Space Hockey™ with dirty water in my kitchen) I listened to the Congos’ “Can’t Come In” at high volume; therapuetic. At one pt they say “A rolling stone gathers no moss” –but it sounds like “gathers no mass” (2:31), doesn’t it? And rolling stones do gather moss—and mass—when they [...]

The best of all possible dogs.

W. was put to sleep Friday afternoon after a veterinarian at Mission Pet Hospital discovered a splenetic mass had filled his abdomen. He was an old, lumpy dude, and the immediate surgery that was our only alternative would have put him in still more pain, with an emphatically slim chance of survival or recovery. I [...]

weird invitation

do you want to go with me to this play tomorrow (Friday) night? I have an extra ticket. Let me know. Don’t feel weird about saying yes.

li’l spock of infro

Jadwiga’s Friends

FEELING KINDA MISANTHROAPEY TODAY TONY COULTER FILLING IN ON WFMU GIVES ME A KIND OF BASIC REASSURANCE THAT SOME STUFF IS COOL, EVERYTHING’S COOL, O.K. [!!] “STUNG BY THE W.A.S.P.” BY MARK MARKHAM ETC SO PERHAPS YOU’LL JUST LEAVE OLD QUILTY ALONE FOR A SEC COMMENTS DISABLED INSIDE JOKE LET OUT INTO THE WORLD FOR [...]

irrational fears

Jaime Clarke’s  “Talk Show” series is one of my favorite things at the Fanzine, which is like the Rumpus for people living in Europe and the American South (just kidding). The new one has B. Evenson, G. Shteyngart, K. Shepard, et al on their “irrational fears.” Check it outtt I feel like a robot-dog–Gwen Stefani [...]