It’s not bad enough that we have an Olive Garden and a friggin’ Outback Steakhouse in the neighborhood. Now I learn that Home Depot is opening a store on West 23rd between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. Hello, truck gridlock!
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The suburbanization of Chelsea/Flatiron continues
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Cheap Art Sale
Regarding the cheap art sale at Art Resources Transfer: GO NOW!
They are selling works now, not just 7-9 tonight.
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Big Cheap Art Sale – Sept. 4
Art Resources Transfer is having a benefit on Thursday, September 4, from 7-9pm. Artworks, valued from $250 on up, will be on sale for $100-$250.
They don’t seem to have updated the web site with this info, but head on over. We first heard of some of our favorite artists — including Joe Ovelman and Charles Goldman — through ART.
This is your last chance for one of these. ART is ending its gallery program to concentrate on publishing and the DUC (Distribution to Underserved Communities) program.
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On an unrelated note, I’m starting to get spam with a subject line of “Good blog” or “Good blog post”. Bastards!
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Kyle Gann
Kyle Gann, composer and one of my favorite writers on music, has a new weblog titled PostClassic.
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He is still an idiot
I’m very proud that searching Google for “Thomas Friedman idiot” brings up one of my posts near the top.
Courtesy of Atrios, I see that he is still an idiot. Here are excerpts from two of his columns, 11 days apart:
August 20, 2003, NYT
No Time to Lose in Iraq“Everyone has advice now for the U.S.: bring in U.N. peacekeepers, bring in the French. They’re all wrong. There are only two things we need: more Americans out back and more Iraqis out front.”
August 31, 2003, NYT
Policy Lobotomy Needed“Our Iraq strategy needs an emergency policy lobotomy. President Bush needs to shift to a more U.N.-friendly approach, with more emphasis on the Iraqi Army (the only force that can effectively protect religious sites in Iraq and separate the parties), and with more input from Secretary of State Colin Powell and less from the “we know everything and everyone else is stupid” civilian team running the Pentagon.
There is no question that we would benefit from a new U.N. mandate that puts U.S. forces in Iraq under a stronger U.N. umbrella.”
I recommend sending an email to letters@nytimes.com and asking them about this.
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To the Point
Congratulations to Matt from To The Point! He’s quoted in the latest Washington Monthly, in an article on Wesley Clark. He and Simon are doing some great writing, so go read them.
OK. I have to say it: I told Matt he should have a blog the first time I met him.
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W.E.B. DuBois quote
I love this quote, lifted from the header of Idols of the Marketplace:
If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth, they have not often let their presence be known.
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Greencine
I have to admit I hadn’t heard of this before, but Greg Allen just pointed me to Greencine, the “little guy/gal” alternative to the ever-growing Netflix.
GreenCine carries a select collection of over 10,000 titles, with an accent on indie, art house, classics, foreign, documentary, anime and Asian cinema. You can check out three titles at a time, with no due dates, no late fees…and we pay the postage! Hang on to them as long as you like. Return one…we send you the next one on your list. Only $21.95 a month, flat fee, with a portion of proceeds benefiting film arts organizations.
I suspect the member reviews are more useful to me than those on Netflix, which tends to get plenty of “Why is this film so boring — no action!” comments on a lot of interesting indie films.
Hmm… What about my 310-disc queue on Netflix?
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GWB Scorecard of Evil
All on one handy page, courtesy of Wage Slave: The George W. Bush Scorecard of Evil
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A dictatorship would be easier
Buried in this article in the NY Times, Bush ‘Compassion’ Agenda: A Liability in ’04?, is this nice little quote from Joshua B. Bolten, White House budget director and formerly Mr. Bush’s chief domestic policy adviser.
“Even the president is not omnipotent,” Mr. Bolten said of the House opposition to the AmeriCorps money. “Would that he were. He often says that life would be a lot easier if it were a dictatorship. But it’s not, and he’s glad it’s a democracy.”
Often?
[via Tom Tomorrow]
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