My email seems to be working again, more or less. If you sent me anything Weds. night, anytime Thursday, or Friday morning, I’m not just ignoring you–I never got it.

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After the lukewarm Virgin Suicides soundtrack and the positively awful 10,000 Hz Legend, I’m happy to see that French loungemeisters Air are back up to form with Talkie Walkie, clearly their best album since Moon Safari, though it still doesn’t quite hit that high-watermark.

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My own housewarming went well enough, but apparently the Times‘s Jennifer 8. throws the hot ticket parties in this burg. I’m not sure whether I should try to get invited or try to seize the crown. I’m lazy, so it’s probably “neither,” but shooting for the latter would give me an incentive to polish my […]

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Let’s build a simple model. Assume I’m a New Hampshire Democratic primary voter. I want to vote for the candidate I like best—let’s say Dean—but a stronger preference for picking someone who’s electable, and I’d also like for whomever’s going to win to come out of the primarys strong. That is, if (say) Kerry’s going […]

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I’ve apparently been picked up by the Ottawa Citizen.

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I’ll admit I’m in favor of Social Security “privatization” (or at least “partial privatization” to start…) if you’ll stop protesting that you’re not a “protectionist” when you mean “I don’t want to get stuck with an accurate label that’s come to be the subject of well-deserved contempt.”

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With both Eve Tushnet and Jim Henley blogging up a storm in recent days over Alan Moore’s graphic novel classic Watchmen, it was only a matter of time before PJ Doland and I sat down over lunch at Ben’s Chili Bowl and got to the all important business of picking the cast for Watchmen: The […]

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Yes, dammit, one more piece contemplating what Dean’s disappointing performance means for Net politics.

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I was at the Kennedy Center last night to see the Alvin Ailey dance company in celebration of Will Wilkinson‘s 63rd birthday. (Ok, not quite. But he’s old.) It was an excellent program well executed (hell, go see it), but as the performance came to a close and the audience got up for a standing […]

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The comics you liked as a kid typically seem preposterous a few years later—unless, of course, you liked Alan Moore comics. Jim Henley looks at what emerges on rereading Moore’s justly venerated Watchmen in a fine short essay. Jim also links to a short meditation on the impending wrap-up of the long-running Cerebus series. I […]

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