You have a blow-up sheep in your bedroom? We need to talk.

Also, the revelation that a critic has no taste/understanding/concept of the thing that they criticize is actually no revelation whatsoever. Let's be honest here; critics are like eunuchs at a harem. They've seen it done, they know how to do it, and they really, really, really, really want to do it... But they just can't and never will and they don't know as much about it as they think.
Case in point, did you watch the induction ceremony for the so called “Rock and Roll Hall of Fame”????? It was like the nerdy kids in High School making an award for the coolest guy in school so they could hang out with him. (and is it just me or was that whole event just a big wank-off op for Jann Wenner?)

Posted by: Mike B at March 29, 2008 10:54 AM

Love me in a special way -- was kind of deep. I don't think the other lady's kitschy choices were on the same page. I'm sure she was cool, but the Yale drop -- feh. The call in from M with Emerson, Lake and Palmer -- the prog rock guy, was highlarious. Great show -- and I'm happy folks are finally recanizing -- contributor to the New York Times is just awesome sounding.

Posted by: H/u? at March 30, 2008 7:13 PM

Some Bay Area updates for you Cintra, I wanted to share this comment I left on Sf gate with you:

A memorial to the veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade was dedicated on the Embarcadero in San Francisco today and it should be noted that a large portions of the funds for this monument came from the estate of Jonathan F. Smith who along with his parents Albert &Margaret Smith, of Berkeley was a long time supporter of Abraham Lincoln Brigade. When Jonathan Smith died in 1999 he willed much of his estate to THE VALB, (CISPES) and The Bay Area Paul Robeson Centennial Committee (who also donated toward the completion of this monument.) His father had donated money to the Lincoln Brigade during the 30’s and 40’s & was labeled "Prematurely anti-fascist" & despite being a ground breaking X-ray Crystallographer, was blacklisted during the McCarthy era and denied clearance at his job w/ Shell in Emeryville for over a year. Colleague Linus Pauling arranged for Albert to teach at Cal Tech but things were never the same and McCarthyism cast a huge inescapable shadow over the family. The family of Jonathan F. Smith should be remembered today along with the great men and women of The Abraham Lincoln Brigade.

(Jonathan was my much older boyfriend.)

"I'll tell you I Love You
But won't believe its true
More precious than silver
More precious than diamond rings
or anything that I can give you
It wouldn't mean a thing
If you don't have my love beside you there to guide you through
or any good t know you do...."

-DeBarge

Posted by: Super Amanda at March 30, 2008 8:00 PM

"The door slid open. I loathe being barged in on while half dressed."

Oh my god! Remember "Bridegway To Hollywood" in Sausalito?
I used to spend all my money there and I remember thinking it was time to put down movie stills and get some bitchin clothes so i went half a block south and walked into some palace of a clothing store with a staircase even and tried on mini skirt with this woman who's sole purpose seemed to be to stand in my dressing room with a German accent while she women told me how shitty I looked. My own personal Erich Von Stroheim film!

I agree Prada is a socialist and an artist but most other fashion designers are not artists by a long shot. Like a 500.00 meal at The French Laundry, expensive clothes are only art for the rich unlike the painting that sits in Louvre or the statue in the park for ALL to see and be inspired by or song that will be on the radio forever for all to hear for free
(by Debarge!) it just doesn't translate to art for me but Prada is an exception.

Posted by: Super Amanda at March 30, 2008 8:18 PM

It was all about Bout, but now it's not about Bout so much anymore. This may indeed lead to a bout of ennui in the race to replace Bout, which is just about anyone's game, if you think about it.

So long as there is an evil, depsicable E-Bloc "Natasha-type" in the new, new (non-Nick Cage) film version, I think this is a story that could fly in every place, except perhaps Quebec, or something like Quebec.

This is a blatant call to resurrect "Jejeuna." There's gotta be a part for her in the Tinselized story about Bout.

(And, Prada...yikes...tres pseudo-surreal. Mind, beware the dressing-room cam footage that is surely to make its way onto the nets. Soon).

Posted by: Juan de la Sahara at April 1, 2008 2:49 PM