Good Grief!

The recently re-opened Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) is overwhelming. Not only is the place filled with sculpture, photos, drawings, paintings, and film, it’s filled with people. Lots and lots of people. Many of them are wearing questionable clothing. Is it art?
Exhibits A and B: a protest against the traditional […]

Because of some PGW love* that arrived in this week’s mail, I am feeling thrifty. Thrifty enough to brave the Saturday 7:00 AM Philadelphia to New York Chinatown bus, despite the warnings of Sassy J, Sam, and others.
So I am not sure what to make of Benny’s World: According to the Chinatown Bus, […]

Finally there’s an online review (Inky: registration required) of Wednesday’s Futureheads show at the TLA.* I was worried that I’d have to write one myself instead of implementing the original plan: wait for someone else to do the work, link to it, and call it a day. Says Patrick Berkery at the […]

So there’s been some talk about the Borgata casino’s crackdown on costumed cocktail servers:
On Valentine’s Day, the casino began randomly weighing its 217 Borgata Babes, a brigade of shapely and mostly female cocktail servers, to determine a baseline for each. If any gain an ounce over 7 percent of that weight, they are to be […]

Well, does it?
Thanks to Type E for the marketing tie-in idea. More gum is on blueq.com.

consumer whore miscellaneous fluff wade bloggs

Presenting a new mix of the week to celebrate today’s Futureheads show. The theme is all fluff. Hey, what’s that voice? It’s saying something about an ever-shortening attention span* and lack of focus and a growing inability to understand challenging music. Eh, whatever. Here’s some fun stuff—no attention span required:

A.C. […]

Thanks to Clair, who probably just wanted to relax after a long day of work last Thursday but instead endured an expletive-laden phone call about DVD players and why the fuck would they put two red holes in the back when there is only one goddamn red plug and what kind of moron wrote that […]

The Market Report is a weekly column written by Ken Klein of Klein’s Supermarket in Philadelphia’s Fairmount neighborhood. He writes the column for the Art Museum Area News and kindly allows me to post it here.
Executive summary:

Bananas in peril.
Cold weather in Florida, Mexico, and California.
Strawberry shortage.

Read on for the entire report.

The Market Report, by […]

doug glanville on yankees?

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The anti-winter blahs project is going well. I did everything on my previous list except for the Davey and Goliath marathon, which I had down for the wrong date and which conflicted with the Iguanas show that I didn’t get to because Bright Eyes played at the Academy of Music on the same night, but […]