That's Pat on the cellphone. She's not a statue

There was an exhibition of the sculpture of G. Goodacre at JRB Gallery on First Friday and I couldn’t resist the above photo of a woman named “Pat” talking on her cellphone next to the other life-like statues. It was a relatively quiet weekend for me and about the only other thing I did last weekend was go see X-Men: First Class, which was about as good as the other X-Men movies but nothing to get too excited about.

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The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

The poet who wrote this died last week and in this video, reads his work.

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Rules for dating was filmed in the year of my birth, 1949. Unfortunately, I still seem to be operating on these rules.

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As Time’s Karen Tumulty notes, the U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) scandal is the first entirely 21st Century sex scandal because the technology that enabled it didn’t exist 12 years ago. Other than that, I’m glad I’m not sitting at the dinner table at his house this week. Oh, and did I mention that Andrew Breitbart is a dick? Well, he is.

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