The Modern Age

WSJ.com - No Day at the Beach
A banner stripped across the top of the Daily Dish declares that the popular Web log’s host, Andrew Sullivan, has “gone fishing.” Mr. Sullivan declared a two-week vacation and opted to leave his political blog behind. Several thousand of his readers have

Check out Bob Dylan’s new video “When The Deal Goes Down”. The video is directed by Academy Award nominee (Capote) Bennett Miler and features the hardest working ingenue in Hollywood, Scarlett Johansson.
WATCH: “When the Deal Goes Down” by Bob Dylan

As much as I love to support Broadway theater, and as much as I love the fact that Will Chase is a former cast member of RENT, I found his interview with New York magazine to be…well…upsetting. Will is going to be the lead role in the musical theater adaptation of Nick Hornby’s uber-music geek […]

The witch’s rosette is on my bed!
Can someone PLEASE add Angela’s picture to the wiki entry on “rosette”?
Poor Kayne breakin’ my heart with his inadvertent Elvis homage.
Michael is SO FLY.

iMedia Connection: 5 Brands Make Their Mark on MySpace
Learn how these brands are winning the social network popularity contest.

Ok right now I’m totally beat after spending about 4 1/2 hours at the VMA Kick Off Concert at Battery Park, but I just wanted to mention that this week is already nuts. I kinda can’t wait until it’s over so I can sleep or something.
This morning I got a phone call from my friend […]

iMedia Connection: Creative Showcase: Patron Tequila
Join the debate — boxers or briefs? Caddyshack or Animal House? — at Click Here’s Patron Tequila website, which ties into magazine and TV spots.
Forever Young
No longer the upstart challenger to the big media status quo, it is itself a media giant targeted by newer challengers in the digital age. […]

eBay: Unofficial Snakes on a Fisher-Price Plane Action Set (item 220018500422 end time Aug-27-06 18:24:52 PDT)
I’m tired of these motherf-ing plastic snakes on this motherf-ing plastic plane!
Video Dog - Salon.com
Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart presenting on the Emmys
At Forbes.com, Lots of Glitter but Maybe Not So Many Visitors - New York Times
But a closer look […]

Inspired by yesterday’s absolutely awful weather, I went to go see that new movie Half Nelson playing at the Angelika. It’s kinda a depressing film, but Ryan Gosling is really fantastic in it. At first it was hard to believe he was supposed to be a teacher, since he looks so young (he’s only 25) […]

tangentialism: Chinatown Ice Cream Dragon: There Can Be Only One
Chowhounder “Andrew” digs deeper and discovers that the Nolita shop is supposedly run by one of the five Chinese brothers that owned OCICF
Web Guitar Wizard Revealed at Last - New York Times
Alfonso Candra claimed to be the mysterious funtwo, but Jeong-Hyun Lim, right, is the real […]