With the rafters of Madison Square Garden roaring affirmation to the insanely affirmed George W. Bush, this interviewer thought it would be interesting to get a point of view as antithetical to the convention hall’s as anyone’s this side of the narrator in Nicholson Baker’s Checkpoint .
In addition to skewering Mr. Bush in his Read More
In 1969, rock journalist Nik Cohn famously wrote that the best thing that could happen to the Rolling Stones would be for them to go down together in a plane crash short of their 30th birthdays, thus preserving themselves forever in our minds as they were then.
Thirty-three years later, as the Stones roll into Read More
If you’re anything like me, you’re middle-aged, you have a fabulous wife and kid, you see a shrink, you really should lose 15 pounds, you think Albert Brooks is funny and Billy Crystal is not, and you can’t believe that anyone can look at this nasty little prick Bush and see a “President,” and … Read More
