So that’s where she went! Ana Marie Cox is now editing the latest web site in the “Gawker media empire”: Wonkette. It’s described as
an online roundup of gossip from Washington DC and the US political arena.
Maybe it’s what George magazine should have been. I can’t believe I just wrote that.
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I updated my earlier post about this Target Margin play. They have been extended for a week.
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Via the BBC:
General Peter Schoomaker said in an interview with AP news agency that the wars had allowed the army to instil its soldiers with a “warrior ethos”.
But the general, who became chief of staff in August, denied warmongering saying the army must be ready to fight.
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General Schoomaker said the attacks on America in September 2001 and subsequent events had given the US army a rare opportunity to change.
“There is a huge silver lining in this cloud,” he said.
“War is a tremendous focus… Now we have this focusing opportunity, and we have the fact that [terrorists] have actually attacked our homeland, which gives it some oomph.”
He said it was no use having an army that did nothing but train.
“There’s got to be a certain appetite for what the hell we exist for,” he said.
“I’m not warmongering, the fact is we’re going to be called and really asked to do this stuff.”
If we’re going to spend $400+ billion on the military, the thinking seems to be we better use it. Lovely.
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My cold is back, and I’m busy, so no brilliant write-up for you, just a recommendation. Go see These Very Serious Jokes, the beginning of Target Margin’s Faust project. They are doing their own translation, by Douglas Langworthy, and it is beautiful. Plus: David Greenspan plays Mephistopheles!
The run (at HERE) ends February 1:
Sun Jan 25 @ 7pm
Tues Jan 27 – Sat Jan 31 @ 8.30pm
Sat Jan 31 and Sun Feb 1 @ 4pm
Target Margin and The Civilians (mentioned a couple of days ago) are two of the most interesting theater groups out there. I go see almost everything they do (exceptions only for scheduling, not aesthetic reasons) — in the case of TM since 1991!
Update: See James‘s take on it.
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In the Boston Globe, via Atrios:
Republican staff members of the US Senate Judiciary Commitee infiltrated opposition computer files for a year, monitoring secret strategy memos and periodically passing on copies to the media, Senate officials told The Globe.
From the spring of 2002 until at least April 2003, members of the GOP committee staff exploited a computer glitch that allowed them to access restricted Democratic communications without a password. Trolling through hundreds of memos, they were able to read talking points and accounts of private meetings discussing which judicial nominees Democrats would fight — and with what tactics.
The office of Senate Sergeant-at-Arms William Pickle has already launched an investigation into how excerpts from 15 Democratic memos showed up in the pages of the conservative-leaning newspapers and were posted to a website last November.
With the help of forensic computer experts from General Dynamics and the US Secret Service, his office has interviewed about 120 people to date and seized more than half a dozen computers — including four Judiciary servers, one server from the office of Senate majority leader Bill Frist of Tennessee, and several desktop hard drives.
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Democrats now claim their private memos formed the basis for a February 2003 column by conservative pundit Robert Novak that revealed plans pushed by Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, to filibuster certain judicial nominees. Novak is also at the center of an investigation into who leaked the identity of a CIA agent whose husband contradicted a Bush administration claim about Iraqi nuclear programs.
Citing “internal Senate sources,” Novak’s column described closed-door Democratic meetings about how to handle nominees.
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Note that Robert “outing CIA agents” Novak is involved too.
Spread the word. This doesn’t seem to be showing up on very many news websites yet.
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Our friend Yuval Pudik (see the illustration above) is doing the costumes for “Just an Old Song”, a dance piece by Fabio Tavaresone that is of the works in the latest Food for Thought event at Danspace at St. Mark’s.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Curated by Wally Cardona, Heidi Latsky, and Susan Osberg
January 30-February 1
[Fri-Sun] at 8:30 PM
Admission: $5 + 2 cans of food or $10
I recommend going on the 31st, and then heading out to Williamsburg for a party where you can also see an installation by him:
After party & art exhibition
Featuring “Untitled No. 2″Â Â A drawing installation by Yuval Pudik
@ NAR, 152 Metropolitan Ave.  (corner of Berry) Â
Williamsburg, Brooklyn Â
Tel. 718-599-3027
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If you only get one political/news email a day, make it the daily “Progress Report” from the Center for American Progress.
A sampler from today’s mailing:
“In terms of the question what is there now, we know prior to our going in, that he spent time and effort acquiring mobile biological weapons labs.”
– Vice President Dick Cheney, NPR 1/22/04VERSUS
“We have not yet been able to corroborate the existence of a mobile biological weapons production effort.
– Kay Report for the CIA, 10/2/03
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Tom Moody has a post about a novel that sounds like a possible precursor to The Matrix: Wolfbane by Frederick Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth. Go read his description.
While you’re there also read what he has to say about the sculptures by Ross Knight at the entrance to the Sculpture Center. I loved those when we went to the opening of the Kabakov show, plus the In Practice Projects group show, featuring a lot of good and fun art, including an audio piece on personal hygiene by Nicolás Dumit Estévez in the restrooms.
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I wrote about this play after we saw it a year ago.
You now have another chance to see it, February 6 – 29, 2004.
Here is another post I did on The Civilians and their show “Gone Missing.”
Their fundraisers are always fun, and I’m on the benefit committee, so if you want to hear about the next one, please send me your mailing address.
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Update: We’re going on the 14th. It’s $25 instead of $15 on that date, but it’s a benefit for Dixon Place and there is a reception afterward. What, you think we would eat out on V-day in this city?
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