A story in Wired a few months ago gave me an idea. The story was something about renting out valuable artwork so that moderately wealthy people can have Picassoes (Picassi?) in their home for a month or so. Why couldn’t our library let us check out art? They already provide art in the form of …
Author Archives: Waldo Jaquith
This is resolution?
I was in court yesterday morning for the preliminary hearing (or whatever it’s called) of Randall Herring, the guy who hit me. I figured that with a totalled car and a hit-and-run (and a marijuana charge from when he was picked up last month), he’d get some jail time, some community service, something like that. …
Art library.
I think that the library should expand their offerings. Right now, they provide books (of course), CDs, videos, DVDs, audio books, and other assorted bits of art and media. Why not art? I think that you should be able to check out sculpture, photos, framed paintings, etc., from the library. For maybe 4-6 weeks at …
DNA is no more.
Douglas Adams died yesterday morning, of a heart attack. It’s hard to believe — he was only 49. He left a seven-year-old daughter, Polly, and his wife, Jane. I guess the Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy movie and "Salmon of a Doubt" won’t be happening. Somehow, I have a feeling that we’ll be seeing …
The big city.
Max, Patrick and I went to New York City this week. We left on Monday afternoon, driving up to DC and taking the train to NYC. We stayed at Washington Square Hotel about a block from NYU, just north of Houston Street. On the first night, we met up with our friend Dario (an NYU …
Mistaken identity.
Last night, Max and I went to a private reception and viewing of Robert Reed’s “Galactic Journal” at The Bayly. I have no idea of why we were invited. An invitation showed up in the mail at work, I RSVPed, and we went. Anyhow, we were stopped by security at the door. Had we been …
David Gray is famous.
I just watched David Gray perform on Letterman. David Letterman pointed out that “White Ladder” has sold over one million copies. Which is something that I knew, but seeing it said on TV made it real, strangely. I don’t listen to the radio, but if I did, I imagine that I’d hear “Babylon” or "White …
New design.
Like everybody else that I know, I put up a new website today. (Well, John didn’t, but I’m sure he’s got a good excuse.) The May 1st Reboot seemed like good incentive to redesign, though I must say that I think that their shut-down-your-site-for-a-week thing is stupid, and I had no part in it. I …
DMB weekend.
Fun weekend. Lots and lots of DMB fans came into town, I met a lot of the folks that use nancies.org, and we had the largest gathering of nancies.org admins yet — John, Pace, Dan, Ron, Shep, and Nikki, all here. I don’t think that we ever got everybody in the same room at once, …
Interviewless interview.
Somehow, C-Ville Weekly assembled a story about me without even talking with me. I mean, they’ve talked to me every so often over the years, but they actually have a half-page story in the newest issue (the “special Dave Matthews Band issue”), complete with a big photo, all about me. This is weird on two …