Thinking today about Al Goldstein, founder and editor of Screw, absurd (and absurdist) public figure and icon of a brief age when sex was a really big show. Much better than today’s obit in the Times is this 2006 recollection by Steven Heller. To me Goldstein’s greatest legacy is the work of Heller and Brad … Read more
After 5 years of a foreign policy that felt like the one promulgated by Bush, the anti-Bush moment has arrived. John Kerry fulfills the promise of the wobegone Obama by negotiating the world further away from war. To think that the guy to finally reverse the shoot-first doctrine would be the guy we voted for … Read more
The GOP is not the only party that is finding fault lines. And while the Democrats are not in an existential struggle, they are seeing economic realities highlight the distinction between the Wall St. Democrats from the populists who are not afraid to say that the rent is too damn high and mention who is … Read more
OKAYOKAYOKAY! So, where was I? . . . there was the top pop 100 for Entertainment Weekly. Squeezing Elvis, Michael, Bruce, Madonna, Prince and Dylan all together was a challenge. Here’s my first sketch. It happened that the eras had to be just so. So back to the drawing board to get the right scrap … Read more
