Sean MurphyCamille Paglia Needs an Enema
I have a confession to make. I read Camille Paglia. Of course, being a grad student in the early '90s, it was impossible to avoid Paglia in the Cultural Studies…
Memo to the Lunatic Fringe
Listen up, loonies: Obama is not going to take away your guns. Obama is not interested in taking away your guns. Nobody else is, either. However, if you happen to…
Bird and Magic
1979. It's been so well documented, and remains such a touchstone (it is still the most widely watched NCAA final ever, which--considering the inconceivably successful hype college and pro…
Janacek + Allergies = Spring
It's on. It's official. Spring is here. Trees are having unprotected sex all around me, and buds are exploding everywhere, nowhere to go but out into the world. And if…
Cerphe’s Up
As I was inserting the picture, above, of Cerphe from the late '70s, when he was already a D.C. legend, my father called. "I wanted to commiserate about your boy," he…
Free At Last
On April 4, 1968, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., 39, was shot to death in Memphis, Tenn.
A Half-Assed Howard Beale or, The Crocodile Tears of a Clown
Right now Paddy Chayefsky is: a. Rolling over in his grave b. High-fiving Peter Finch in heaven c. High-fiving Peter Finch in hell (where it's Happy Hour 24/7) d. All…
Next Up: Absinthe is the new Ginkgo biloba
Great news for all diligent web-surfers, I mean office workers, here. Check it out: Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and Google are good for you and increase productivity in the office: Study author Brent…
Got A Beef? Sure ‘Nuff ‘N Yes I Do
As T.S. Eliot portentously opined: April is the cruelest month. Apparently someone once pulled an April Fools' Day joke on him too. What's really sad is I saw this one coming almost…