…on the Grand Canal with Patrick Kavanaugh.

This is Myself and my three Forum panelists last Saturday.  (John Hodgman, Baratunde Thurston and Carrie Brownstein.) Baratunde calls it our Reservoir Dogs walk. Here’s his vine-laden account.

The ad was pulled.

But it lives here.

…about his ill-advised D.C. jaunt.

1. Do you think Heidi Klum is moving too fast in the romantic marketplace after calling it quits with Seal?

2. Why does Lil Wayne keep getting arrested?

3. Are you worried about Amanda Bynes?

4. Would you be mad if you were trying to visit Disneyland the day [...]

…I’m a terrible blogger these days.

Warning: bad words.

MONDAY: FUTURE SO BRIGHT, YOU GOTTA WEAR SHADES.  OK, so you never did get that jetpack. Still, you’re stepping into a future of dazzling innovation and peril.  What’s coming — and soon — is a world in which people can reasonably expect to live to 120, in which humans will voluntarily undergo amputations and [...]

It closes today.

Special thanks to Charlotte Moore, the director, who was kind to my family in small, direct ways and kinder still in the big gift of finding a way to produce this neglected show in a chamber scale. The Lincoln Center Archives videotaped the production, so “Donnybrook!” will never feel quite as [...]

I’m trying to get ready, simultaneously, for tonight’s Watkinson forum (which will also be a live audience taping of our show and a benefit for three local nonprofits so do please think about coming), tomorrow’s full-show interview with Peter Tork (!!!) and the Nose on Friday.

For the Nose, I’m drawn to Michiko Kakutani’s [...]

Here’s today’s column.

Tucked in there is this notion: Bad as Boston was, there are places in the world that would trade weeks with Boston in the beat of a heart.

We live incredible lives here. We usually think it’s a bad day if the cable goes down.

We know startlingly little. Already, it [...]