Scooby Doo boo hoo

01.10.07 - 9:12 am | Marke B. |

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I used to have a recurring nightmare as a child that I was trapped in the opening credits of Scooby Doo. It was kind of an erotic nightmare: the rainbow-cartoon swamps, the undulating haunted mansions, the moaning ghosts with their morphenomenal yaws. The dream would go on for hours and I'd wake in the rough heat of my hermetic, carpeted bedroom, the gray footsie-bottoms of my PJs scraping against the cotton sheets. Now, alas, Scooby Doo is dead.

Or at least his creator is. Read more »

NOISE: Chavez lives, live

01.09.07 - 3:58 pm | Music Blogger |

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Guardian contributor Michael Harkin caught Chavez's reunion performance at Slim's on Dec. 30. Here's his review:

Chavez’s return to playing live shows certainly isn’t a comeback of the “we were once stars, and are now in need of money” variety. The ear-ringing muscularity of their take on ‘90s indie rock could conceivably have found a place in the popular consciousness in 1995-1996, but somehow it didn’t work out that way. Read more »

Kennedy: "Is there any American in this country who thinks the United States Senate would vote to support sending American troops into a civil war in Iraq today?

01.09.07 - 11:14 am | Bruce Brugmann |

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By Bruce B. Brugmann

This is a quote that makes the critical political point:

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Massachusetts), in an interview published in the New York
Times on Tuesday, continued, "Is there any American that believes this? I don't think so, but that is what's happening, and we have to do everything we can to to insist on accountability."

Kennedy said he will introduce legislation on Tuesday to require the president to get new Congressional authority before sending more troops to Iraq, according to a story by Jeff Zeleny. Read more »

Your tax dollars at work

01.09.07 - 10:27 am | Tim Redmond |

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By Tim Redmond

Robert Byrd is 89 years old, and still truckin' along. He lnterrupted the Senate's opening prayer this week, shouting "Yes Lord" and "yes in Jesus's name." Ted Kennedy pantomimed tuppling from a bottle during the high points of the Byrd show.

The Star Trek mayor

01.09.07 - 10:02 am | Tim Redmond |

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By Tim Redmond

Has anyone else noticed how much Gavin Newsom is starting to look like Lt. Commander Data?

Out on the Bloc

01.08.07 - 6:30 pm | Marke B. |

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OK, OK I know we're beyond the gawker-closet phase ("OMG he's gay???). I ain't no Valley Girl. But -- MEOW. One of my favorite singers ever just stepped gingerly over the shoe-tree threshhold. Read more »

Fortwo foryou

01.08.07 - 1:52 pm | Marke B. |

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Yes, I'm from Detroit, where the frickin' autoshow was shoved down my throat constantly. (It's so huge now, they're threatening to tear down the host site, Cobo Arena, and build a bigger showplace -- uh, I thought the car companies were as broke as Dennis Rodman's penis up Madonna...) And yes, innumerable Detroiters laughingly forwarded me that piece from the New York Times last week about San Francisco parking rage. (We're killing each other for spaces!). Read more »

Gonzalez on the fence?

01.08.07 - 1:14 pm | Tim Redmond |

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By Tim Redmond

I think Luke Thomas at FCJ is the first one to officially claim to have unofficially announced that Matt Gonzalez is really running for mayor. But everyone in town is talking about it, and the typical discussion is around not whether but when he will join the race.

There are two conflicting schools of thought here. Some think Gonzalez would need to get in soon if he's going to raise money and be taken seriously. Read more »