Pat Dollard's War on Hollywood: Politics & Power: vanityfair.com

Pat Dollard’s War on Hollywood: Politics & Power: vanityfair.com Getchell and Laurenn told me about this article last night, and my God…just read it. Block out an hour and read it. It’s an absolutely astonishing piece of journalism about an absolutely insane, remarkable man named Pat Dollard, who went from being one of Hollywood’s top […]

Reasons Why The Violent Femmes Are Not As Revered As The Pixies, And Some Reasons Why They Ought To Be; A Life Memoir

Part The First The Femmes were not a coastal band. I’ve always thought of the Violent Femmes as being a Midwestern band, and all of the evidence I’ve seen over the past twenty years suggests this is true. People out here on the West Coast like the Femmes, but they don’t have that obsessive love […]

Chuck Heston died!

Sigh. I was never a fan of Heston’s politics — the exact opposite, actually — but dude, he was fucking Moses. I met Heston in high school. He was supporting the governor of Wyoming’s re-election campaign. i was writing about it for my high school newspaper. Dude was a total right-wing fascist. But afterwards, when […]

Things To Remember If You're A Supermodel Who Wants To Date Me

GQ has a story about the 16 things to remember if you want to date a supermodel. (Found on Digg, which made me giggle. Lots of guys dating supermodels on Digg.) After reading through it, I thought I’d make my own list: things to remember if you’re a supermodel who wants to date me. Pay […]