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Last night I watched Truffaut’s “The 400 Blows.” Tonight I watched Johnny Knoxville’s “Jackass.” I’m finally starting to laugh again, after what feels like weeks of gloom and doom over this war with Iraq. Which doesn’t make me less anxious, entirely, or less concerned that The Project for a New American Century’s ‘Pax Americana’ isn’t…

My father emailed me this morning and said “I’d like to see a little more optimism on your web page… I don’t think it’s the end of the world!” I appreciated the sentiment, but discounted it just a little bit given the global condition. But then my buddy Matt in L.A. emailed me this afternoon…

If I hadn’t spent the vast proportion of my weekend alternating between radio, television, internet, newspaper, and magazine coverage of this war with Iraq; if I weren’t a little frazzled from the anxiety all the news, background and commentary had created; if I weren’t hungry despite a steady diet of Starbucks coffee and Lean Cuisine…

The Wall Street Journal ran an OpEd piece this morning on MTVNews.com‘s coverage of the war in Iraq (see “Gen Y Goes to War”). “While surfing through the news section of MTV’s Web site,” they write, “We happened to stumble across its “At War With Iraq” link, and it sure belies the cable network’s spoiled,…

We continue to endeavor towards normalcy at the MTV. That is, in addition to publishing three war-related updates and a fistfull of military emails every day (these are actually emails from kids “in theater,” as they say), we’re posting news on Snoop, J. Lo, and the likes. REM has a protest song (see “Lenny Kravitz,…

I had Saturday off. I cherished the sunshine, the blue sky, the cottonball clouds. I sat at Lincoln Center drinking coffee and reading every word of The New York Times’ coverage of the war. The War. I still don’t like the sound of it. I spent today at work. We published three war-related updates, covering…