NR’s Peter Robinson is delighted that his bleg for information about why Michelangelo sculpted a Moses with horns growing from his head garnered replies from 225 people. He gushes: Readers of this happy Corner, youâ??ve done it, providing yours truly with the first really satisfying explanation for the horns on Moses that Iâ??ve ever encounteredâ??while […]

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A little eulogy for the Phish scene: “Joy in Mudville”

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I’m apparently mentioned on NPR’s All Things Considered today. Not, alas, for anything I’ve written (yet) but for my barhopping: it’s a piece by reporter Ben Gilbert about the social networking software Dodgeball.

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Best exchange on the upcoming New Republic/Weekly Standard paintball game (between TNR and Slate staffers who shall remain nameless): A: Iâ??m not sure we need more than a couple people. I expect the Standard folks will throw down their paintball guns and regard us as liberators. B: Iâ??m surprised by all this confidence on the […]

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I swear, stuff like this is almost enough to make me want to become one of those partisan Democratic hacks that Matt refuses to be. It ought to be crystal clear to everyoneâ??it surely is to Cheneyâ??that Kerry meant by a “more sensitive” war on terror exactly what Bush did when he used the same […]

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A piece on the return of the protest song: “Vox the Rote.” Also, since I don’t find them posted anywhere else, the rest of the lyrics to the Mike Doughty song I mention for fellow Doughty fans: Down in the mouth and I have right But I can feel a change is comin’ on Bloom […]

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I didn’t think that the movie Garden State could possibly be as good as its elegantly produced trailers (the gorgeous Frou Frou “teaser” one especially), but Heather McDonald nailed it: This is the best movie I’ve seen in quite a while. It’s true that, especially in the latter half, it occasionally flirts with self-help schmaltz. […]

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I just got an advance copy of the Future Soundtrack for America that MoveOn put out with Barsuk records, and at about halfway through it’s clearly a damned good disc. Tracks from OK Go, Death Cab, Mike Doughty, R.E.M., TMBG, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Nada Surf, Flaming Lips, even the late Elliot Smith. I think even […]

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I can only assume that this ad (super babe seeks geeky libertarian; passable looks optional) is a goof, because I haven’t noticed that the streets are suddenly full of blocky-skinned, chalk-white people who introduce themselves with: “Goodbye, how am me?” As Brooke recently observed, lib women typically have their pick of more pale, socially awkward […]

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