TUNE RAIDER If you haven't heard it yet, hold your breath and you will. I was reading the hype on Madonna's new track "Hung up...

Amarillo: Every state should have one! Eccentric gazillionaire Stanly Marsh III has sponsored several sprawling kooky art installations in ...

When I was in high school, my father would drive me to my music teacher's house for my weekly lesson and the most direct route took us t...

Dear Misanthropic Bitch: I generally rely on you to be an equal-opportunity blamer, so what gives with planting the responsibilty for inepti...

Hallelujah! My dog is eating breath mints.

In defense of Kate Moss... What follows is not a defence of drug use, but a serious question about whether the fashion industry in general s...

I really wanted to laze about today and do nothing, but the sky is that wonderful pre-fall color it always seemed to be on old-fashioned cal...

Today was another nicely cloudy, darkish sort of Monday, which I always love, as you may have noticed. I went to my favorite Indian restaur...

The clangor of bashing president Bush at every opportunity has reached such a pitch that it now sounds a one-note symphony which makes liste...

New Orleans in the wake of Katrina is in a dire state. Let it be said there is plenty of blame to be shared for the human tragedy that has o...

[Happy 100th post to me] Pity party: Table for one.

Kind of weird. Sometimes, if you really pay attention, you can see in someone's eyes they've gone in a completely different directio...

This Big Hush Is there a fire in the sky? Is there a moon up there? Is anything alive now? This darkness is what I hear This is a breathless...

Hurricane Katrina I wish I'd seen New Orleans just once before it got completely shredded. I fear it will be a very different place tom...