At Fran’s house, I meet his ex-girlfriend Iris, a yogi, architectural historian and fellow Twitter addict. We talk about American reality TV (The Rachel Zoe Project and RuPaul’s Drag Race). We have plans to see Kandinsky in The Hague with Michael’s family, but meanwhile she tells me today we must go to the FOAM photography museum here in Amsterdam ( Read more... )

Polarizing as he may be, I'm impressed. Gavin for California.

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i'd vote for michelle obama as president.

someone needs to take the microphone away from their 7 year-old, though.

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If this contest is over today, it has been a good one, and one the Democratic party needed to have. We will have a candidate who can now consider himself tested, not a freshman, and who will not have any speculation that he won because his opposition backed out early in the game. We can now move forward decisively as a party without wondering what ( Read more... )

You got to spend some time, love
You got to spend some time with me
And I know that you'll find love
I will possess your heart

here's to nights not wanting for company. to We are Scientists tickets in both NYC and DC. to switching to MSNBC because Keith Olbermann makes me want to have dirty political babies. to future trips to Baltimore. to seeing ( Read more... )

i love the foreign press, because they pick up what Americans are just now starting to realize. Obama doesn't have a lock on anything right now. His mystique has faded over the past seven weeks in Pennsylvania. He doesn't have that "new face for America" finish anymore, so if nothing else Hillary has accomplished that much of her mission. But here' ( Read more... )

sorry, but i'm jumping back on team hillary again, if only for a minute.

it's not politics of fear when the scenarios Hillary's portraying actually happened. maybe Obama could claim that in the 2000 election when the worst we'd seen in a generation was the Persian Gulf War. But everything HRC shows in her latest ad actually happened, and guess what ( Read more... )

dear barack obama-

for a man who claims he will be a party unifier and who is supporting real change in america, not a throwback to the Clinton "dynasty," you were certainly overjoyed to have one of America's oldest and most liberal families on your side yesterday. but hey, their money smells the same, right?

hmmmmmmmm.

-j.p.