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1. I'm just catching up on last week's New Yorker. I sort of enjoyed Philip Gourevitch's political dispatch. It's about Errol Morris' commercials featuring Republicans who intend to vote for Kerry. Of course, the Kerry campaign didn't want to run the spots for fear of upsetting someone or another somehow. It confirmed all my worst fears about what a bunch of pussies they are. But then I actually watched the commercials at Move On and was completely underwhelmed. Anyway, the story led me to the American Museum of the Moving Image's fabulous collection of presidential TV commercials.
2. Speaking of pussies, yesterday I read George Tabb's very funny new memoir, Playing Right Field: A Jew Grows in Greenwich. Tabb's the punkiest punk rocker of them all (he was once, briefly, a Ramone)--and a self-described pussy. As a scrawny, hook-nosed, kinky-haired Jewish kid growing up in the WASP paradise of Greenwich, Connecticut, he got his ass kicked an awful, awful lot.
3. It was great to see comedian Jason Lewis back on the local scene. (He's apparently now "Charlotte's Mr. Right".) The first paragraph of his Sunday Op-Ed piece was so damn funny that upon reading it milk shot out of my nose and I couldn't continue. The folks at Fraters Libertas are speculating that Lewis might be headed back to this market permanently. Oh joy.
Posted by Paul Demko at August 25, 2004 3:37 PM