It’s not lost on me at all that tonight, instead of working on some writing, I should be putting the last minute touches on my Harry Potter costume and seeing the Half-Blood Prince at midnight. Actually, I would have been in line at the iMax theater already (I waited in line for six hours or [...]

What I’m reading: November 19:

Silent Party #5 | Pitchfork - Eric Harvey sort of breathlessly goes through Kanye West, iTunes' Genius feature, privacy, and the British Journal of Psychiatry
New York Times headlines that read like Zen koans. - By Jessica Winter - Slate Magazine -
Move Over, My Pretty, Ugly Is Here - NYTimes.com - [...]

My new “Progress Report” column on Stereogum started last week. So far there’s Midlake and Andrew Bird, but there will be so, so many more.
I saw Drew Daniel read from his new 33 1/3 book and dance with a golden pillow penis between his legs at Housing Works. I was amazed. Then I wrote [...]

…how much I love the Small Faces. I forgot that I was a teenage mod.
YouTube - Small Faces-Whatcha Gonna Do About It.
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Here’s me and Feng Feng, and Dan. And his Vespa (I was 16, I think):

Let he who hath not dreamt of getting “my cat presenting” tattooed across his belly button cast the first stone. For surely he hath borne our griefs.