Note that this is THE FIRST INITIATIVE Gonzales is pushing for. The most important thing on his evangelical agenda. Maybe S&M is OK Mr Gonzales, since it involves torture?
From Yahoo News:
Gonzales Seeks to Reinstate Obscenity Case
WASHINGTON – The Bush administration said Wednesday it would seek to reinstate an indictment against a California pornography company that was charged with violating federal obscenity laws. It was Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’ first public decision on a legal matter.
Billed as the government’s first big obscenity case in a decade, the 10-count indictment against Extreme Associates Inc. and its owners, Robert Zicari, and his wife, Janet Romano, both of Northridge, Calif., was dismissed last month by U.S. District Judge Gary Lancaster of Pittsburgh.

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Robert Moses, Freemasons, and Fornicating Rabbits
This looks right up our alley!

Boozy: The Life, Death, and Subsequent Vilification of Le Corbusier and, More Importantly, Robert Moses ($15)
The Ohio Theatre
66 Wooster St, New York, New York
February 13-March 5
All Performances 8pm
Amidst a blaze of streaming media, ridiculous choreography, and dozens of live fornicating rabbits, famed French architect Le Corbusier inspires builder Robert Moses in his desperate battle to recreate New York,” the Off-Broadway company announced. “Boozy: The Life, Death, and Subsequent Vilification of Le Corbusier and, More Importantly, Robert Moses tracks the life of Robert Moses, from idealistic youth to unstoppable power broker, able to turn parched land into glorious bridges, highways, and public housing with a mere flick of the wrist. With guest appearances by Benito Mussolini, FDR, and the ghost of Baron von Haussmann, Moses learns from the greats until true power is finally his. Freemasons dance, FDR levitates, and Daniel Libeskind silently weeps. None shall be spared.
Click here for all the Details
[Let us know in comments how it is.]

Right wing douchebag Matt Drudge, finally pulls his head out of his ass and hears about this whole Greenhouse Effect thingee. Sorry Matt, the rest of the world has either already heard about Global warming or is busy denying it to help out their corporate buddies. And now that your head has been dislodged from your sphincter and you’ve entered the 21st Century, you may want to consider ditching the animated siren. Animated gifs lost favor around the time the Internet bubble burst. What? You didn’t know about that either?! Yeah, your Pets.com stock is pretty worthless now, buddy.

THE GREAT GAME
The Myth and Reality of Espionage
Frederick P. Hitz
A non-review by J. Stefan-Cole
In, The Great Game: The Myth and Reality of Espionage; Knopf, 2004, which compares the literature of spies with the real thing, Frederick P. Hitz writes, “In the world of espionage, as elsewhere, absolute secrecy corrupts absolutely.” Daniel Patrick Moynihan might concur. In his 1998 book, Secrecy: an American Experience, he says secrecy is not only inefficient, it is bad for democracy. An example, the Venona Project broke the Soviet signal code toward the end of World War II, revealing the names of American agents at work for Uncle Joe; Alger Hiss, and the Rosenbergs among them. Both Hitz and Moynihan suggest the McCarthy witch hunt wouldn’t have occurred had the secrets of the Venona code been revealed and debated. The military decided Venona was so sensitive even President Truman was kept in dark about the code with the result that Truman correctly doubted a huge internal Red threat, while J. Edgar Hoover and the McCarthy conservatives were convinced a Commie lay hidden beneath every D.C. bush.

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In case you missed the sold out Westminster Dog Show live party at Tonic last night, we were there to provide you with highlights. The crowd was a strange mix of Upper East Side wankers and art school hipsters. The show commentators were appropriately crass and drunk. Nelly McKay (who performed briefly) was cute and very sweet. There was even a suspenseful 30 minutes where a broken projector interrupted the live broadcast. Luckily, the problem was fixed just in time to watch the show finale.
As per the results, we had all of our money on the Bloodhound, but were disappointed to see the 5-year-old German shorthaired pointer judged best in show.

the bitch who won

the food was disappointing

the lovely Nellie McKay

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A response to the Stylus reimagining of Summer Teeth:
Summer Teeth is Wilco’s magnum opus. Their most accomplished record. Their Exile on Main Street. The most perfect record a band could hope to produce. Though critics flock to their more recent, “experimental” releases, most overlook the complexity of this richly rewarding record. Summer Teeth’s best song, “Via Chicago,” is one of the most intricate tracks they’ve ever recorded. Critics overlook the sophistication of most of the tracks on Summer Teeth because they get lost in their surface level catchiness. Nevertheless, this is more of a “studio album” than the uneven Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and the self-indulgent A Ghost is Born. Just ask a Wilco fan, this is the record that they actually listen too. Don’t be fooled by the showy sonic bursts on their later records, Summer Teeth is the record Wilco will be remembered for. It’s that good. [Note to Stylus.... how could you cut "She's a Jar?"]

From Pitchfork:
“OK, don’t hold us to this, but it looks like those rumors and innuendo about the Unicorns’ demise have not been greatly exaggerated. A history lesson, if you will: it all started with reports that the band’s December 21 show in Houston, Texas was their last. The early days of 2005 saw the seemingly straightforward message “THE UNICORNS ARE DEAD, (R.I.P.)” posted on the band’s official website, with the Latin postmortem sic transit gloria (“thus passes the glory”) appended thereon.
And that should’ve been that. But that is never that with the Unicorns– the inevitable Chinese whispers started wafting through the zeitgeist, claiming that the breakup was just another Andy Kaufmanesque prank along the lines of that wrestling thing the ‘Corns did last year. Mere days later, the web obituary was replaced with a cryptic call from “HALIBUT CORN HORN” to “GET READY TO DANCE,” among other nonsense. The band’s publicist stayed as vague and tight-lipped as a North Korean apparatchik– maybe he just wasn’t in on the joke.

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In support of their great new record:
The Matt Sweeney & Bonnie “Prince” Billy- Superwolf free instore tour of New York.
Saturday March 5th:
1PM: Sound Fix- 110 Bedford Avenue (Williamsburg)
3PM: Kim’s Mediapolis- 2906 Broadway
5PM: Built By Wendy- 7 Centre Market Pl
7PM: Mondo Kim’s- 6 St. Mark’s Place
9PM: Other Music- 15 E. 4th St.

From Dallas Morning News:
This is beyond messing with Texas
Bright Eyes’ Conor Oberst, it seems, isn’t a fan of Texas. He startled a sold-out audience at the Ridglea Theater in Fort Worth by slurring, “I don’t know if you know this, but I hate your fucking state. I’d put a fucking gun to my head before I’d live in your state.” Must have been kidding. Nah. If you went to see him, you weren’t a “normal Texan,” he continued, because “if you were a normal Texan, you’d probably be roping steers and raping Indians.” Pretty strong stuff for a 24-year-old from Nebraska. Go shuck some corn.

Don’t miss the beautiful folk psychedelia of Grizzly Bear, playing in Williamsburg this Sunday. Local label Kanine Records strikes gold again with this great up-and-coming band.
Check out their site to listen to GB’s music.
From their site:
“During a long fifteen-month hibernation in his cozy Greenpoint, Brooklyn bedroom, Droste laid the groundwork for Grizzly Bear’s first album. Upon completion of this “demo,” Droste enlisted the help of a real bear, Christopher Bear, who breathed new life and sounds to the work. Hailing from Chicago, Bear has worked in various musical projects ranging from laptop shenanigans to free jazz. He has provided a vast technical knowledge, a certain sonic polishing, as well as additional instruments and vocals to the initially primitive recordings.
The result, Grizzly Bear’s debut album titled “Horn of Plenty.” is a nostalgic amalgamation of found sounds and layered vocals bound to thrill followers of Animal Collective, Sufjan Stevens and Nick Drake.”
See Grizzly Bear Sunday 2-13 at 9pm
Glass House Gallery (38 S 1st St, Wburg, 718.387.4942)
$5 suggested donation