Adam Jacobson

Buzzing from the giddy style and sheer joyous sensations initiated by the lovely film The Incredibles, which opened this weekend, we exited the Avco screening room 4 feeling a bit at ease from the political events of the week. Good old escapism has its place in a difficult world.... continue reading on LAist

Drive. Damn it people, take a drive. Succumb to the privileges of western expansion. Get all Bush-like and blow some money on gas and drive around the city this weekend. Some call it a Nietzschean undertaking. LAist calls it coping. Read. There’s some good gay Truman Capote anecdotes over... continue reading on LAist

And so you drink because that’s something you can do that most of America seems to agree with. Find solace in the fact that “national identity” and patriotic kinship are the sentiments of philistines. In the words of Morrissey, “What difference does it make?” We have four years to... continue reading on LAist

LAist talked with Ezra Klein of the political blog pandagon.net this weekend. Ezra’s been engaged and blogging this election for over a year and a half. His site, which he co-blogs along with Jesse Taylor, boasts around 25,000 hits a day. Needless to say, his voice gets heard (or... continue reading on LAist

Emerging from the MOCA store on upper Grand Street in Downtown this Sunday, still buzzing from the miraculous and inspiring Rodney Graham Retrospective at the Geffen Contemporary on Central Avenue, total giddy confusion ensued. The Graham exhibit, which grinningly forces viewers to see differently, has a central motif consisting... continue reading on LAist