Live from ThePotholeView: According to Us, Gore Vidal Is Still Having Fun
When you have Gore Vidal's irreverent wit and cosmopolitan nature, you cannot stop having fun. At random, I picked this quote to announce his...
Of Gods, Charlie Hebdo and Tasseography
This past week, the satirical French newspaper, Charlie Hebdo, had its Paris office firebombed. Its website and Facebook page were also hacked and remain...
Letter to Cartoonophobes:
It is with deep interest that I read how some people of Allah enlist themselves to kill cartoonists. And I wonder: why?
Why do people...
What Would Lee Strasberg Say?
Marquel, TPVs NYTimes Method Section correspondent, was doing his daily pushups when he read Inmate Improv. Can a prison theater workshop prepare men for a life...
Experience a Google Kiss only Better
Google invites us to experience a kiss like never before this February. I took the challenge and I started searching for my two favorite...
Cuomo’s Got the Kiss of Death: Hillary’s
The Democratic Primary is this coming Tuesday, September 9, and Andrew Cuomo is scared. Deadly scared. He just asked his mommy dearest for help!
Hillary!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKX4bQeMRc8
Now, little...
Arts and Politics: Doll Boxes
In an age of miniature politics, nothing can help us better visualize reality than Sherry Mills' art in a box. Watch her interviewed by...
TPV played the D
To celebrate Make Music New York (MMNY), a group of 175 artists joined together break the mark for the largest electronic keyboard ensemble, playing Pachelbel's Canon...
The Line of the Year 2012
"Argo, fuck yourself" must be the line of the year 2012 because it delivers our day's philosophy in a nutshell: most of the time,...
Schwarzenegger: Total Freefall?
In the 1993 action movie, Demolition Man, Bruce Willis’s character is thawed (after being cryogenically frozen in 1996) in the year 2023 in future...
Rocking Brooklyn as if Riding a Citibike in Manhattan
Vocalist Thomas Mars is a funny Gallic guy. He keeps his smile like his shirt: well tucked in. I’ve discovered their music by...
Madonna Pays to be Watched
Madonna was a cute girl and everybody loved her thirty years ago. She had money then, and now, she has even more. When she...
Nude and Pretty
Marquel was staring at his naked body in Central Park recently , when a pretty girl handed him a copy of the TImes' Hundreds...
What Happens When the Girl Is Neither Lovely Nor Better
Ms. Barbara Streisand recently came to Hill-Billy's rescue:
Indeed, there seems to be no difference between Hill-Billy and the other dirty, old, men, you mention:...
