Feathery Neighbors

Pale Male and Lola have been evicted from their Fifth Avenue home! Read about it at Reuters.

I’ve known about Pale Male since seeing a PBS documentary about him. It’s too bad the notion of private property has to trump consideration for others. I can understand why residents of that building might be upset by people constantly watching their building and the refuse the hawks might create, but it seems a shame that they refuse to share their space with nature. Sure Central Park is across the street from their building and it’s lovely to look at, but God forbid if they actually have to come into contact with anything so unsanitary.

Awake Late

I just added a copy of my first zine, Awake Late #1, onto my Web site. Check it out here by clicking on the “Zine” link and read about my first cigarette! Issue #2 will go up soon.

Travis Morrison Solo Shows

For those who used to follow the D.C. post-punk band The Dismemberment Plan — and I know there are plenty of you out there because you always blocked my view when the Plan played at the Metro — note that Travis Morrison is playing two shows in Brooklyn next week on Dec. 14. Should be interesting.

Robert’s Snow

Check out Robert’s Snow, the Web site for my friend Alice‘s sister’s online charity auction. The auction is for snowflakes decorated by a number of popular children’s book authors and illustrators, including Chris Van Allsburg (author of The Polar Express) and Ian Falconer (creator of Olivia). Proceeds from the auction will go toward the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in honor of Robert, Alice’s brother-in-law, who is a cancer survivor. The auction ends in three days.

The First Post

This is where my blog will be until I figure out how to insert it on my Web site. I think the problems are stemming from the fact that my Web site is hosted on my school’s server, and I don’t think blogger can get through the firewalls.

Jeff Jarvis, a former TV critic, had this to say about visiting my Media Ethics class. More on this later.

OK, I’ve just got to add this gratuitous animal story about Red, the canine Houdini. This is exactly the kind of story you’d see in the last minute of a local news broadcast.