The Format with Japhy Grant

Gov. Patterson is Being Held at Gunpoint and Loves Gays

April 9, 2008

Say what you will about New York politicians, but one thing they’re not is boring.

re: your milkshake

April 7, 2008

Dear Friend, As you may have recently noticed, I have recently consumed your milkshake. I wanted to take a moment to explain this further, as I feel there may have been some small degree of miscommunication in my intent. Perhaps your first thought, after seeing that your glass was no longer a font of frosty [...]

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This week on the web

April 6, 2008

For the longest time I’ve tried using my online writing as a springboard to getting print gigs, which you know, are more legitimate to Mom & Dad. “Yeah, I wrote this article for Salon.” “What’s that?” “Um, this…website.” But the reality is, I love the internets. I love creating stories and seeing them up the [...]

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Hillary's F*cking Obama

April 3, 2008

Because it’s Thursday and you need to laugh.

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Flaming Politics: Hillary, Elton and Gays

April 2, 2008

Because if it’s Wednesday, it’s Flaming Politics. This week, I ask if Elton John is the proverbial fat lady singing to let Hillary know her time has come to an end.

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I (Heart) the PDC

March 31, 2008

I get a lot of shit for saying that the Pacific Design Center is my favorite building in L.A. My standard defense is that it’s one of the few buildings in L.A. that bothers to embrace the utopian spirit of the city. It creates a triad of “big idea conteporary complexes” with Gehry’s Disney Hall [...]

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The (High-Speed) Wheels of a (California) Dream

March 31, 2008

If ever there was a place for high speed rail in America, it would be California. With it’s bifurcated populace concentrated either in L.A. or S.F. the state is in desperate need of a way of tying these two population centers together. It makes sense from an economic standpoint as well as a cultural one. [...]

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To Shave, Perchance to Strop

March 31, 2008

So, I used my flu as an excuse not to shave. A week later, my face looked sort of dirty–in the right light. The men in my family have almost no facial hair. My Dad’s part Native American and my brother and I both inherited the general lack of scruff. Add on top of that [...]

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Build a Better White House

March 28, 2008

Storefront for Art & Architecture and the Control Group have an open competition to design a new White House (for kicks). Winners get flown to New York in July for a gallery show. You can keep the original structure ala Renzo Piano, or if you want, knock the whole thing down and put in a [...]

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