Peter Murmann

Question to Steward Copeland of the Police: Sting was photographed outside the Relax bordello in Hamburg in September. Were you tempted to join him? SC: He never asked us to go with him! His 17-year-old daughter said it best, though: “Dad, at least you didn’t get busted playing golf.” None of The Police play golf. Found [Read More]

The Democratic Party is closer than it’s ever been to a political nightmare—a deadlocked convention. Though the odds of its actually happening are still remote, the idea is so rich with dramatic possibility that we asked Lawrence O’Donnell Jr., former West Wing writer-producer, to play out a scenario in movie-treatment form. The premise is that [Read More]

Simply Red is a one-man outfit—so how exactly is it disbanding, asks Neil McCormick. Mick Hucknall announced on Wednesday that Simply Red are splitting up. Which rather raises the question: how does a group with only one member go their separate ways? Hucknall has employed 27 different musicians over the band’s 25-year career, and admitted in [Read More]

]I just started to read Pamela Druckerman’s book on the rules of infidelity across different cultures. This report by the former Wall Street Journal writer is exceedingly entertaining and well written. I will publish a summary judgment when I have finished the book. But in the meantime, I want share a few good lines [Read More]

The father of the bride reflects in the New Yorker (Jan 29, 2007) on his imaginary encounters with 72 virgins.

Virgin No. 1: Yuck.

Virgin No. 2: Ick.

Virgin No. 3: Ew.

Virgin No. 4: Ow.

Virgin No. 5: Do you like cats? I have fourteen!

Virgin No. 6: I

“It is better to have a relationship with someone who cheats on you than with someone who does not flush the toilet.”