Tuesday - March 9, 2010

The Last McQueen  @3:55 PM

The last collection by Alexander McQueen showed today, privately, and the slideshow is really worth a look. That this is a gorgeous and sentimental occasion does not make him any less of a complete asshole as well. 28

Monday - December 28, 2009

The End of the 00s: A Guide to the Unmonuments of New York, by Joy Garnett  @12:30 PM

Tuesday - December 15, 2009

The Annotated White House Flickr Feed, with Ana Marie Cox and Jason Linkins: A Message To You, Salahi  @4:30 PM

Our President: so busy! So photographed! And here are Air America's Ana Marie Cox and the Huffington Post's Eat the Press editor Jason Linkins to trawl the documentary evidence of our White House in action. READ MORE 15

Thursday - November 19, 2009


Here are some images of the planets in our solar system that are more recent than may be familiar with! The one above is Saturn! I wanted to do Uranus, because that joke never gets old, but the picture was kind of eh. 12

Thursday - October 15, 2009

New York City, Now and Then  @2:40 PM

Part Three of the investigation of the current-day state of Taxi Driver locations is up! 7

Wednesday - September 23, 2009

The Pittsburgh G20 Photo Gallery: Starbucks, Bus Haters, Buddha, Jesus, Arctic Foxes, Children Ready To Die  @12:00 PM

Beautiful downtown Pittsburgh is preparing for the G20 onslaught in every way imaginable. We will also get to see, unfortunately, how the protests on the left are as scattershot and inchoate as this summer's town hall protests have been from the right. This here, for instance, is the kind of sophisticated commentary about Sarah Palin, arctic wolves, or foxes, or whatever, and also international super-prisons hat is actually coherent when you are high but makes you look like a huge moronic spaz in public while you are coming down. READ MORE 23

Thursday - September 17, 2009

The Annotated White House Flickr Feed, With Ana Marie Cox and Jason Linkins: We Definitely Know What You Did At Every Minute This Summer  @12:20 PM

White House staff photographer and personal paparazzi Pete Souza: he has been around the world in a day with his concealed weapon town hall camera permit, shooting Barack Obama. What did they do this summer? They went to the Grand Canyon, which is in Mexico. And so many more places! And here we have Rachel Maddow's hot lady-friend (JUST FRIENDS PEOPLE!) Ana Marie Cox (Daily Beast and Playboy contributor) and Jason Linkins (editor of the Huffington Post's Eat the Press) to travel along! READ MORE 12

Tuesday - September 8, 2009

Mary Heilmann, Hep Cat  @10:35 AM

Mary Heilmann, 70 next year, is the woman painter that women painters between the ages of 33 and 53 talk about, because her career is what is maybe waiting for you, if you are lucky, when you are no longer a hot young thing. (There oughta be a name for that: the long, empty middle age of the lady art career when you are ignored for being of a boring age, between young 'n' sexy and old 'n' noble.) That makes this picture from her studio, from this excerpt from a new book documenting artists' studios, all the more interesting, as she has the musical tastes of a hot retro young Williamsburg thing! Kraftwerk! New York Dolls! Who knew. Hot. 8

Wednesday - September 2, 2009

Pictures! Midtown Full of Pole Dancers!  @12:33 PM

In a promotion for "The Ultimate Pole Dance Competition" to be held in New York City this October (WHY?), there are pole dancers, working bicycle carted-poles, circling midtown Manhattan today. Our secret midtown squirrel correspondent for pole-dancing sends us these shocking photos! (What follows is safe for work.) READ MORE 26

Thursday - August 13, 2009

A Primer for the Coastal Elite: What Do The Tea Party Folks Want?  @2:07 PM

Those who watched and mocked the national Tea Parties back in April would find a different bunch of tea partiers today. The truly lunatic fringe of opportunists is now largely gone. But owing to the froth kicked up months ago, the movement's name, "Tea Party," still has currency and momentum, so why not use it? It's a branding conundrum the United Negro College Fund surely appreciates. A day after one of North Dakota's largest-ever tea parties, at the courthouse in Grand Forks, the only thing I can say with certainty about the movement is that it's mostly about making funny signs and producing lots of unintentional irony. And anger. Plentiful, seething, soul-rooted and only vaguely-focused anger. And maybe racism. But not really that much racism! READ MORE 63

Monday - August 3, 2009

Gay and Straight Men Who Love Bags  @3:10 PM


Oh, so, some of the guys in this slideshow of men with man-purses are straight and some are gay! But I'll leave it to you to interpret all the incredibly subtle factors that help you judge which are which. 24

Friday - July 31, 2009

The Annotated White House Flickr Feed, with Ana Marie Cox and Jason Linkins: A Trip Around the World Visiting Tiny, Evil, Horny and/or Kenyan Men  @2:00 PM

Did you know that the White House staff photographer shoots Barack Obama every 1.4 seconds? That is a fact. Particularly when our "President" is traveling around the world, representing the interests of Kenya and the health care lobby. And here we have Ana Marie Cox (Daily Beast and Playboy contributor) and Jason Linkins (editor of the Huffington Post's Eat the Press) to make sense of all this abundant photograph evidence for us! READ MORE 11

Monday - July 27, 2009

Who Makes The Yahtzees?  @1:55 PM


You may recall Fortunate Teens Party With Morrissey, 1994, artist Derek Erdman's imagining of an unlikely incident with the miserablist pop sensation. The folks at Insound are offering two exclusive further works from Erdman: Three Quarters of Joy Division Win Big at OTB, above, and Mark E Smith Writes 417 Royalty Cheques Every Year. When we finally sell this website for a shit ton of money, I am so commissioning Pete Shelley Angrily Destroys A Fruit Machine While A Bemused Howard DeVoto Reads Camus. 11

Friday - July 17, 2009

Get Your Wings: Is Barack Obama Steven Tyler?  @1:30 PM

Awesome speech Obama gave yesterday at the NAACP. As if anyone needed more proof, check the backdrop. Just how cool is the president? READ MORE 7

Thursday - July 9, 2009

A Walk Through New York: Everything Must Go  @10:40 AM

Ah, an evening walking trip in New York City. What delightful sights can be seen? READ MORE 11

Wednesday - July 8, 2009

The Hollywood Walk of Fame, During the Michael Jackson Funeral  @10:00 AM

It's rare that a stroll down Hollywood Boulevard nourishes your faith in humanity. But yesterday, the Day That Pop Died, was nothing special. I was expecting a cataclysmic scene torn from The Day of the Locust: a mob of ordinary folk, gathered as if at a movie premiere, turning violent, trampling each other just to look at stars. Or, you know, dead stars. Or the idea of stars. Carnage, brought on by boredom and disappointment, and backlit by military-strength spotlights. But it was really just like any other day in Hollywood. READ MORE 2

Thursday - July 2, 2009

The Annotated White House Flickr Feed, With Ana Marie Cox And Jason Linkins: The Case Of The Crazy Runaway Apple  @1:00 PM

What kind of crazy world do we live in when we can see into the White House each day through The Official White House Photostream? Well a really crazy one. And here we have Ana Marie Cox (Daily Beast and Playboy contributor and Air America hostessess) and Jason Linkins (of the Huffington Post) to annotate it for us. READ MORE 12

Tuesday - June 23, 2009

Matthew Barney? Or Smurfy Flash Mob?  @1:01 PM


They are indeed spookily similar
: last month's world's largest assembly of people dressed as Smurfs in Wales and Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle. 6

Wednesday - June 17, 2009

The Annotated White House Flickr Feed, With Ana Marie Cox And Jason Linkins  @4:00 PM

Our nation's greatest resource and triumph, our playground with the stars: The Official White House Photostream. How very remarkable. Except when it isn't. And here we have Ana Marie Cox (Daily Beast and Playboy contributor) and Jason Linkins (of the Huffington Post) to annotate it for us. READ MORE 13

Monday - June 15, 2009

How Flat Is The World Really? Gays v. Iranians  @3:02 PM

Wednesday - June 10, 2009

Nine Photos Of The High Line  @10:20 AM

The High Line park, ten years in the making, officially opened yesterday. What's striking on the High Line, apart from its delightfully uneven poured walkways (the arguments and code-wrangling there must have been!) and benches on wheels, is what you can see not on but from the narrow strip of railway. It presents an idealized, bizarre version of New York City, a west side skyline you haven't seen before. Disorienting! Where are we? READ MORE 16

Monday - June 8, 2009

The High Line, She Is Open At Last  @3:27 PM

The High Line, New York City's newest and thinnest park, has opened, with its lord and lady leading the way. More pictures here and here. 15

Tuesday - June 2, 2009

Some Light Gay Pornography For Your Afternoon!  @1:40 PM

Here is a terrifying and not-really-safe-for-work pictorial project about two gay guys in harnesses on a picnic! I don't know, it is dirty and there are Pepperidge Farm cookies, and was made by the collaborative duo of Julien and Stéphane, two 24-year-olds. ART APPRECIATION. 11

Wednesday - April 29, 2009

The pictures are adorable, though.  @11:02 AM

Look! The next pandemic starts here! 4

Thursday - April 23, 2009

I Keep Mine Hidden  @4:20 PM


I was gonna save this for my Shift Memo tonight, but time got away from me and I need to run off for a bit. I do have a life outside of this website, you know. Anyway, it's artist Derek Erdman's Fortunate Teens Party With Morrissey, 1994. You can learn more about it here. Okay, you're in Choire's hands now. If that dude one-ups me with another Shift Memo I will be very irate. Anyway, enjoy! 9

Wednesday - April 15, 2009

People Come Home From War Dead  @2:16 PM

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Monday - April 6, 2009

Amy Winehouse, Free At last  @4:17 PM

And here is a picture of English pop singer Amy Winehouse riding a horse on a small Caribbean island.

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