Organizing Grievances

Thank you, Dan Carey, wherever you are... On this day six years ago you changed my life forever when you walked up to me in a bar during the...

I know this is old and I am stealing from LGM and I am still sort of boycotting the Daily Show, but this was right on so many levels and it...

I'm by no means old. I can still party down with at least the top 25% of them. But in the graduate employee union world, I think it...

I am not sure this will go off as well as the Slint or Burma reunions, but who knows? All I know for sure is that I won't be able to aff...

A coupla weeks ago Doug Henwood hosted an awesome conversation with Corey Robin - a Brooklyn Prof who recently wrote an amazing review art...

I will ask in advance for your indulgence for what follows. Since I shuttered my own blog last week, I am now forced to vent about my work-r...

The senate passed a bill that I can only hope (though I am not holding my breath)the SCOTUS finds unconstitutional, immunizing the telecom c...

I had a dream last night wherein Wobs, Lex, Malone, and I were drinking beers in a bar on campus (I think it was the now-defunct Busters) ta...

I'm currently reading Douglas Brinkley's The Great Deluge about the Katrina catastrophe. While it's certainly not a funny book...

I just joined the Hard Case Crime book club . Like your average mope in these stories, I can't see how this could come back to haunt me...

Pride week, indeed : we are a better country for having these men around. Give them both Rockefeller grants, please. And what's this? Th...

Did everybody already know about Operation Midnight Climax ? If so, these are the kinds of things about which I'd like to be informed.

The seed for this beautiful flower of a PRM had its genesis in a conversation about branding. Go figure. Have some B-52s. "Hot Lava...

So when, exactly, do I become a member of this coastal cultural elite that I hear so sneeringly derided? I don't think that I'm a m...

How can you not want to believe in someone who promises to deliver results?...(from politico ) “The McCain administration would reserve all ...

I was eating at Taco Bell today because I hate myself. The tables were festooned with placards adverting their new drink the " Frutista...

Apparently , in Funky Winkerbean land, the cops appreciate a smart-ass retort and will tear up a ticket if you strike their funny bone. In ...

I can say with some confidence that I know or do 23 of these things. How many you got? Thirty things to know or do by the time you’re 30: T...

Please download the June 2008 Sunday Mixtape , and please purchase the works of those included thereupon. Feb 14 Drive-By-Truckers ... I am...