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MOMA fashion police
The recently re-opened Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) is overwhelming. Not only is the place filled with sculpture, photos, drawings, paintings, and film, it’s filled with people. Lots and lots of people. Many of them are wearing questionable clothing. Is it art? Exhibits A and B: a protest against the traditional repression of undergarments?
Chinatown bus: pray for us
Because of some PGW love* that arrived in this week’s mail, I am feeling thrifty. Thrifty enough to brave the Saturday 7:00 AM Philadelphia to New York Chinatown bus, despite the warnings of Sassy J, Sam, and others. So I am not sure what to make of Benny’s World: According to the Chinatown Bus, a […]
Futureheads: Philly concert review
Finally there’s an online review (Inky: registration required) of Wednesday’s Futureheads show at the TLA. I was worried that I’d have to write one myself instead of implementing the original plan: wait for someone else to do the work, link to it, and call it a day. Says Patrick Berkery at the Inquirer: when [they] […]
Does this gum make my ass look big?
Well, does it? Thanks to Type E for the marketing tie-in idea. More gum is on blueq.com.
Sax dot com
Thanks to Clair, who probably just wanted to relax after a long day of work last Thursday but instead endured an expletive-laden phone call about DVD players and why the $&*@ would they put two red holes in the back when there is only one &@@!@& red plug and what kind of moron wrote that […]
The Futureheads: ultimate winter blah antidote
The anti-winter blahs project is going well. I did everything on my previous list except for the Davey and Goliath marathon, which I had down for the wrong date and which conflicted with the Iguanas show that I didn’t get to because Bright Eyes played at the Academy of Music on the same night, but […]