“Memoirs of a Super Freak” and other links…
naysue: “The first time I saw Prince and his band I felt sorry for him. Here’s this little dude wearing hi-heels, playing this New Wave Rock And Roll, not moving or anything on stage, just standing there wearing this trench coat. Then at the end of his set he’d take off his trench coat and he’d be wearing little girl’s bloomers. I just died. The guys in the audience just booed this poor thing to death…”
John Outterbridge: “Much ado over an artistic shovel”
Mike Boehm: “Meanwhile, leaders of citizens’ groups devoted to the Watts Towers and the adjacent Watts Towers Arts Center are wondering whether it was proper for Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to bestow an apparently city-owned artwork on an outgoing employee—not to mention “a travesty” from an artistic point of view, because it offended a respected artist and compromised the unity of a group project created to mark a public occasion.”
“Some say Hub owes debt to James Brown”
Douglas Belkin: “According to a Boston Globe account that weekend: ‘By noon Friday it appeared that Boston’s black community of 80,000 was poised for a violent upheaval. Roving bands in Roxbury, North Dorchester , and the South End inflicted injuries on a dozen persons, set fire to one store , and looted seven others.’”
Charlie Sheen: “I Pay Them to Leave”
Ian Ayres: “Some people may at times prefer A.T.M.’s to tellers in part because they don’t want to speak to tellers. Some people may prefer Merry Maids to a regular housekeeper (or may prefer to be absent when the cleaning is done). Or some people may prefer buying at Amazon.com in part because of the lack of human contact.”