Friday July 22, 2005

Three Little Dots

Have you ever thought that—way back in the early days of New York’s smoking ban—Christopher Hitchens must have been caught in some sort of scofflaw dragnet and been forced to work for the government? I think that all the time. … Jack Nicholson? He’s an asshole. … Slate’s Hua Hsu says R. Kelly’s “Trapped in the Closet” song cycle is “a showy, confident gesture that playfully hints at the facts while seducing you with its fictions,” which I guess—or hope—is just a fancy way of saying “ponderously stupid and offensive to the ear.” Next thing you know a call comes through on my cell phone/I tried my best to quickly put it on vibrate/But from the way he acted I could tell it was too late. Please. … Daniel calls the right’s bluff on the root causes of terrorism. … A bookseller does the numbers on one store’s Harry Potter madness.

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