Twenty Third & Seventh

george michael is in trouble again. couldn't happen to a more deserving ponce! After all the shit he has given Boy George for being 'too gay' over the years I'd be happy to see his career destroyed.  There is, IMO, absolutely no excuse for public sex of this kind in this day and age.  As Boy so wisely observed-- 'can't he use a computer'?

why do banks take 48 hours to process a payment TO a credit card while they can deduct money instantaneously?

can anybody explain the difference between an incursion and an invasion? if a tank rolled into my neighborhood i think the semantics would become secondary.

we hear reports that visitor rooms at the Chelsea have gone up in price.  a correspondent writes:

they have now gone from $250.00 to $275.00  Man oh man.  They are pricing out all the people
who made that hotel what it was!  Pretty soon the only people staying there will be rich boring tourists or Britney Spears.

and we're inclined to agree.  Negotiate like a New Yorker is my advice, it worked in knocking the price down for us.  Just be prepared for a stark room!

Liza Minnelli playing a whacked-out masturbation therapist is a freaky thought

I am My Own Wife is headed my way in the original production.  This review from the .au press has a major spoiler- be careful.

Still depressed at the idea that CBGBs will be gone forever.  An example of what happens when one becomes a parody of one's self.

Second Life is an overwhelmingly expansive and conceptually dense virtual world allegedly taking the world by storm.  It's worth a look.  I suspect that I'm a bit too old to grasp the paradigm.

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My unprovoked and increasingly spiteful attack on Sienna Wowow-Sedgwick has attracted comment:

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I can get on a rampage about people "playing" artists or creative people--the ones who suffered in life or went astray somehow. And these spoiled Hollywood people come waltzing in, and it's a game. It's like "playing weird" and then going back to your "safe european home."

They posture and it pisses me off.Like if someone tells me how much they love Van Gogh, I always want to say "yeah? sure you do...you won't even go down to [insert edgy street] street but you "love" a painter who sliced off his ear, lived in a mental hospital, drank paint thinner and shot himself in the stomach?...but you won't go down and visit the LIVING artists who are around here? geeze..that pisses me off.

I love Layne Staley of Alice in Chains, someone who died from heroin overdose in 2002--and people who criticize him for 'letting' heroin ruin his life. yeah, that's easy for someone to say when they don't FEEL anything ...uh, I better get of my soap box for the moment.

I MISS THE CHELSEA!!