Month: August 2008

  • Culturebot Live(ish)

    I’m reading a story at my friend rachel’s reading series at Happy Ending tonight. It got listed in NYTimes.com: UrbanEye. Pretty neat! Um but the Times is a little lax in the fact-checking dept., as it says I’m a producer at PS122 – which I’m not anymore. I am one of the curators of PRELUDEwhich…

  • Book Pitch

    Okay so I’m working on all my big ideas and sh*t to try and transition from random culture bottom-feeder to media-sanctioned trend analyst and culture commentator. Yeah I didn’t do grad school at Harvard, Yale or Columbia but, hey, whatevs. Pay me to work on a book and, bitch, I’ll deliver. Anyway – the big…

  • Weekender

    Okay I’m not going to be around for a few days. Will try and post some stuff but don’t expect much. Back Tuesday. xoxoAndy

  • will franken at ars nova

    Okay – so I KNOW I posted about Will Franken when he did FRINGENYC back in 2005 and gave him a rave review. For some reason I can’t find the post in my archives. Maybe I posted to one of my other blogs that I had back then. I don’t know. But I remember calling…

  • Cool Stuff at Chez Bushwick this Weekend

    I, unfortunately, have to go to Baltimore this weekend. But if I were in town I would probably be trying to head out to Chez Bushwick for at least one of these programs of work by two Romanian which look fascinating, part of CB’s Force Majeur residency program: “Hole In One” By Brynjar Bandlien Wednesday,…

  • Pee Pee Maw Maw

    Someone just sent me a link to the Collapsable Giraffe website promoting their upcoming show PEE PEE MAW MAW in November 2008. Is it funny/mean or funny/haha? You tell me… (oh and the link is -or at least was at time of posting – NSFW!)

  • Flush With Energy – Break The Addiction!

    Normally I think Tom Friedman is kind of insufferably self-righteous. But I’m digging this column about energy efficiency and Denmark, he quotes: “I have observed that in all other countries, including in America, people are complaining about how prices of [gasoline] are going up,” Denmark’s prime minister, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, told me. “The cure is…

  • The Work of Edward Tufte and Graphics Press

    Edward Tufte has written seven books, including Visual Explanations, Envisioning Information, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, and Data Analysis for Politics and Policy. He writes, designs, and self-publishes his books on analytical design, which have received more than 40 awards for content and design. He is Professor Emeritus at Yale University, where he taught…

  • i bow down before your writerly prowess

    Every once in a while you read a sentence and you’re like, “Damn, that is a great friggin’ sentence!” Like a perfect riff by Clapton or a pitch-perfect Jack Nicholson line reading, sometimes a writer just nails it. I read this sentence and for some reason I was like, “Dude! Fuckin’-A! That is one bad-ass…

  • gimme a head with hair

    okay. no really.  is anybody gonna hook me up with tickets to HAIR? all those years I spent as a pre-adolescent singing along to the Original Broadway Cast Album – i gotta go. come one. somebody help me out here.

  • SnagFilms Film Widget

    insane! you can watch ENTIRE documentaries for FREE!!! [clearspring_widget title=”SnagFilms Film Widget” wid=”4837b4759c19ccae” pid=”48989c666846b014″ width=”300″ height=”250″ domain=”widgets.clearspring.com”]

  • Non Sequitur Summer Festival

    This looks cool. My friend Cheryl B. send it in: CCi ComposersCollaborative inc presentsNON SEQUITUR Summer Festival The Flea Theater, NYC Aug 19-23 Rejection: a series of slips and falls composers David First, Jed Distler, Jennifer Griffith, Kate Soper, Sima Wolf poets Anselm Berrigan, Bakar Wilson, Cheryl Burke, Douglas A. Martin, Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai, and…