Reflections on a Valentine’s-semi-themed dinner with friends:
1) Don’t actually make it a Valentine’s event and it’s *perfect*
2) Leave the only sign of the season to be an absolutely delicious heart-shaped chocolate cake bu[…]

FIVE POINTS
by Tyler Anbinder
New York City lore is something I know a bit of but couldn’t care much about otherwise — this is because I’m a horrible person, of course — but more to the point it’s generally alien to my e[…]

THE STEREOPHONICS
“Dakota”
Desperate but not serious. It is however extremely funny to realize they’re trying to break America all the more (except much-more-famous-than-the-Stereophonics-Kelly Kelly Clarkson seems to have trumped […]

nick.K is dead
Holy shit.
An ILX thread.[…]

The Pazz and Jop 2004 poll is up. Go nuts.[…]

BOBBY O
“I Cry for You”
This is in part an excuse to talk about the wonderful post on Mr. O and “German Girl” made by Ally over at the already coolest-thing-in-2005-English-language music criticism, ILMiXor. So go read that f[…]

Derbyshire and ID redux — just a quick followup to this earlier post on John Derbyshire’s frustrations with ID arguments and arguers. Presumably this will be his final word on the subject via the Corner blog, and it’s a pretty darn[…]

THE NOMI SONG
dir. Andrew Horn
The Nomi Song is a biography on German singer/performer Klaus Nomi, who recorded two albums, created one of the most memorable/iconic stage images ever, and passed away in 1983, one of AIDS’ earliest victims. The[…]

DACHAU 29 APRIL 1945
ed. Sam Dunn
Frankly, I hated the slew of ‘greatest generation’ books and movies and stuff that came out in the late nineties in America. It struck me as a convulsive reaction on the part of baby boomers seeming to s[…]

NEW ORDER
Waiting for the Sirens’ Call
It’s good, it is. In fact it’s better than good, it’s freakin’ great. But I’ll hold off on a fuller discussion about it now, suffice to say that no, it isn’t Technique[…]