Quote of the Day
"He's so cute and little, like a French woman." — A gay man on why he would sleep with actor Elijah Wood.
Cindy McCain: "It's just a terrible group of people that rule the country."
Does America prefer its First Ladies to be weird uptight robots incapable of saying anything rational for fear of eclipsing or contradicting their husbands? Well yeah, obviously. Still. Parse this: "Cindy McCain says voters don't have to look past her husband's support of the troops to realize that he is 'pro-woman.'"…
Madonna Forsakes Herself
As some of our commenters have suggested, Madonna's statements about a faded, duller New York City come pretty darn close to summing up the singer herself. Dedicated chronicler of New York Rod Townsend seems to agree. He notes that if you switch her name in for New York's, the quote still works perfectly well:…
Lit Agent David Vigliano Thinks People Love Jayson Blair's Story, or Hate It
David Vigliano on Jayson Blair, in "Hey, Victim, Want a Book Deal? Jill Carroll's Post-Trauma Choice," by Sheelah Kolhatkar, NYO, today:
As If New Yorkers Needed More Reasons to Be Scared of Today's Supreme Court
"I used to travel on the subway from Queens to Manhattan with a rifle," he said. "Could you imagine doing that today in New York City?"
Random, Unexpected, and Disconcertingly Sexual Media Quotes of the Day
• "I do it because I have a small penis."
— The Daily News's Lowdown Lloyd Grove, in the new Details
Miners, Alas, Are Not Tinkerbell*
In fairness to Manchin, it's exactly how Bush governs, and it works out OK for him.
A Taxonomy of Bad Blurbing
Recently, our mailbox has been slightly cluttered with mailings from St. Martin's press about Galt Niederhoffer's forthcoming novel, A Taxonomy of Barnacles. To be released next Tuesday, it seems this book is some sort of precocious second coming. Entertainment Weekly describes it as "droll and sophisticated;" Booklist…
