Things to Do While Waiting For Everyone’s Favorite Long-Haired Hippie To Rise From The Grave, Like A Badass

We’ve been remiss in our artistic endeavors and recommendations here at CTJ – mostly due to the inevitable boredom and withdrawal that accompanies winter, coupled with pesky little things like work and writing and just, stuff. (We have lives, okay?!?) But considering the lovely 70 degree weather that’s creeping up on us this HOLIEST of [...]

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Al Gore Pens Terrible Poem About Death And Hot Weather

97.4% of all poetry is frighteningly awful, insipid nonsense, so why should one written by Al Gore be any different? Right? As proof, here is his new poem-thing, about climate change or some such. The glaciers, they are a-meltin’: One thin September soon A floating continent disappears In midnight sun Vapors rise as Fever settles [...]

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Things To Do In NYC: Fall Edition

Well, these should carry us through the end of the year… – Gabriele Munter and Vasily Kandinsky, 1902-14: A Life in Photographs (through Jan 13, 2010) and Expressionist Painting before WWI (ongoing) at the Guggenheim – Vermeer (through Nov 29th) at the Met – Georgia O’Keefe (through Jan 17, 2010) at the Whitney – Tauba [...]

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NFLer Domonique Foxworth Has Priorities In Order

HEY READ THIS: Here is a pretty cool story on NFL defensive back Domonique Foxworth, of the Baltimore Ravens, who has created a museum of homage to the Civil Rights movement in his basement, instead of the requisite and typical NFL-player basement that consists of a 60 ft fishtank equipped with rims, leather sharks, and [...]

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U.S. Troops Destroy Ancient World Wonder

According to a new report by the United Nations, the U.S. military did major damage to the site of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, one of the original Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Were they looking for WMDs? Bin Ladin’s training camp? Was Sadam hiding by the rosebushes? Did they feel the gardens threatened [...]

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Things To Do On A Hot NYC Summer Day

We know it’s been a while since we last tried to instill some culture in our readers. And by the looks of some of the search terms you people are entering – which, thank the merciful lord, the interwebs are directing you to our sophisticated blog, rather than some weird porn site about stupid congressmen [...]

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Photography: Paul Graham

Last week I finally made it to the MoMA to see a shimmer of possibility, the small-ish exhibit by British photographer Paul Graham. The show consists of 49 color images – a sampling of the pictures the photographer took while traveling throughout the States between 2004 and 2006. With a couple of exceptions, the images [...]

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Books To Read: Blood Meridian

With a second venture into this book review/recommendation bidness, I bring to attention Cormac McCarthy’s acclaimed 1985 novel Blood Meridian, or The Evening Redness in the West. The book more or less chronicles the story of the unnamed character ‘the kid’, and his experiences with a clan of marauding and scalp-hunting mercenaries through the U.S/Mexico [...]

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Continuing The Theme About Art

I’m toying with the notion of posting a monthly list of things I’d like to do in the field of the arts; exhibits I want to check out, movies I want to see, and so forth. Co-editor B C might or might not join (dependant on his interests). Anyway, here’s what I’d like to check [...]

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Books To Read: The Good Soldier Svejk: And His Fortunes in the World War

I interrupt this processional of jokes about losers to direct our reader(s) to some planetary good things. I suspect we will do this arbitrarily. Sometimes it will be about books, at other times music. Maybe film, on occasion. We will pretend we are cultured and refined. Then we will go back to comparing politicians to [...]

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