- Britney Spears' VMA performance.
- Pirates everywhere breathe easy: Misshapes, America's longest running hipster bacchanal, ended last night. No longer will Davey Jones and his crew have their clothes mercilessly deconstructed into glad rag chic by the barbarian hordes of Billyburg. The weekly NYC party ran for almost half a decade, gaining the dubious distinction of being the cultural touchstone for a crowd which scorns the idea of cultural touchstones as out of date and unhip. As for what the disaffected unwashed masses will do now, the NY Times quotes one former pirate-beater as saying that the new thing is "dinner parties". That's so three years ago.
- I am "walking" in the Jimmy Fund Marathon this weekend. My Dad has had two heart attacks in the last year and to celebrate his comeback, our family is walking/running/virtually walking (that's me-- I can't make it back to Beantown, sadly) to raise money to fight cancer. If you'd like to donate, click here.
- Shocker: New condo not as cool as it's next-door neighbor, classic icon of early Modernism, The Schindler House.
- Seminal (tee-hee) queer-punk band Pansy Division is going on tour for the first time in four years this October.
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