mizrahi at target! (nyt)
even though i'm not a woman and can't wear any of what isaac mizrahi has designed for target, i'm still excited. his women's clothes are so straightforward and casual and cute that i'm happy for my women friends. yay target!
(Saturday, September 13, 2003)

nice toupee
cute diesel sweeties comic.
(Wednesday, September 10, 2003)

burning man, coming to a city near you (reno gazette-journal)
"'But now, in this newest phase of the development, we're going back to the world,' [founder Larry Harvey] said. 'I don't want to be a subculture — I want to enter the mainstream culture, but on our terms.'"

Franchise opportunities await you!

Actually, this has always been my main complaint about B.M. -- a lot of people seem to spend a lot of time, money, and effort to make things that will exist in the desert for a week. I would rather see that effort expended in those people's communities instead of the desert. But then again, I'm pretty much just an old curmudgeon at this point.
(Wednesday, September 3, 2003)

Treitel-Gratz (nyt magazine)
"Donald Gratz is a burly, avuncular man with an easygoing manner and a sly grin. He owns Gratz Industries, a custom metal-fabricating business -- commonly known by its old name, Treitel-Gratz -- which is housed in a graffiti-covered, blond-brick building that appears to cower beneath the 59th Street Bridge in Long Island City, Queens. Though Gratz doesn't seem like the kind of guy who would be on the speed dial of the New York design world's A-list, to many of them, he's something of a god."

It's the 'ordinary' people who really make history. Not the famous.
(Monday, September 1, 2003)