Email Author Geeta Dayal

2005 Stories by Geeta Dayal

• Books

  published December 13, 2005

  What is it about Morrissey that inspires such cultish devotion? As the title implies, Saint Morrissey is more hagiography than biography,... More >>

• Dear Abbie's Esquire

  published October 18, 2005

  Gerald Lefcourt made his name as a lawyer for the 1960s counterculture; Abbie Hoffman dedicated his classic Steal This Book to Jerry... More >>

• Brave New Hamburger

  published July 26, 2005

  Fifty years hence we will escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing by growing these parts separately... More >>

• Unprolific Techno Producer Overwhelms You to Life

  published July 19, 2005

  There's nothing to "get" about Vitalic. The shadowy European producer specializes in brutalizing electro-techno anthems that are about as subtle... More >>

• Disco inferno: From unifying safe haven to creepy dystopia

  published June 28, 2005

  Music critic Peter Shapiro's Turn the Beat Around opens with a graphic depiction of New York in the '70s that could make even the most... More >>

• Left-Handed

  published June 21, 2005

  It's difficult to visit "The Design of Dissent" and not feel fired up to protest, provoke, and inflame. The exhibit, showcasing political posters... More >>

• Be Stiff

  published May 31, 2005

  At exactly 8 p.m. last Wednesday, Kraftwerk—sporting identical black single-breasted suits, gray shirts, black ties, and spit-shined... More >>

• Art

  published May 31, 2005

  Anyone who's been to a rave—remember those?—can testify to the overpowering sensation of being able to hear colors and touch sounds. The... More >>

• Why Worry?

  published May 17, 2005

  America is, to paraphrase LCD Soundsystem, losing its edge—and not just "to better-looking people, with better ideas, and more talent." It... More >>

• Female Trouble

  published May 3, 2005

  How can one gaze at Harriet Shelley's suicide note, smudged with 200-year-old tears, and not feel a chill? (She drowned herself while pregnant,... More >>

• PH.Dotcom

  published April 5, 2005

  Imagine if the great thinkers of the past could have blogged, bouncing ideas off each other in real time, engaging in rapid-fire debates across... More >>

• The Gong Show: Where Free Shots Are Served With Each Bang

  published April 5, 2005

  The focal point of Orchid Lounge isn't the decor—though the profusion of silky red pillows, cherry blossoms, and Japanese paper lanterns... More >>

• A Brief Guide to Blogodemia

  published April 5, 2005

  Rushkoff Blog Douglas Rushkoff, NYU Impossibly hip NYU prof (he doubles as the... More >>

• Fever Pitch

  published March 15, 2005

  The British music paper NME wasn't always the limp joke ("Rock Is Back!") it is now; back in the late '70s and early '80s, it owned. Chalk... More >>

• I, Robot

  published February 1, 2005

  Harvard president Lawrence Summers is facing his latest—and biggest—public relations disaster. Ever since he suggested in a speech last... More >>

• The Acid Test

  published January 4, 2005

  Objects appeared to gain in relief; they assumed unusual dimensions; and colors became more glowing. Even self-perception and the sense of time... More >>