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Tuesday, April 26, 2005
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news from a broad Hokay, UD’s still in her springtime stupor, but she thought she’d interrupt it real quick to do a little instapundit (has Glenn Reynolds copyrighted this word?) activity… let’s see -- it’s TV Turnoff Week! Well, comme vous savez, every week is TTW for Our Ms. D. She has a stash of TV-B-Gones and dispenses them liberally as holiday gifts. For UD, a special day would be turning on a tv… And speaking of tv, “Asked how British audiences compared to Americans, [American actor Val] Kilmer was blunt. ‘They're smarter. They read books,’ he told reporters.” … And speaking of not reading books, how ‘bout them Nationals (is that the name of DC’s new baseball team?)? Andrew Sullivan went in to last night’s game a scoffer and came out a believer… And speaking of scoffing, UD used to scoff when fellow ‘thesdans told her they’d seen coyotes in their backyards (not to mention bison on their tennis courts) but not any more! … And speaking of backyards, the gated backyards of some Los Angeles communities have been scoped out by urban planners protesting the gate-ification of LA -- they’ve put viewing platforms up next to the entries of these communities, so people can climb up and see into parts of the city that have become off-limits. The LA Times - wrong as ever - calls these protesters “contrarians.” The gaters are the contrarians -- the rest of the world doesn’t feel compelled to imprison itself… And speaking of suburbs, Andrea Dworkin, in her 2002 memoir, Heartbreak, describes fleeing her "horrible,awful, stupid suburb," and going to New York City to get her copy of "Howl" autographed by Allen Ginsberg. Here’s a photo of Ginsberg and Dworkin… |
