Urban Honking

I found this reading David Foster Wallace’s obit and it hit my gut. The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. Pvt. Michael R. Dinterman, 18, of Littlestown, Pa., died Sept. 6 at Outpost Restrepo, Kunar Province, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when he received enemy fire […]

On Friday, Fashion (two) Week(s) was officially fini. S/S ’09. I missed most of it: was in Portland for the first week and work-crazed for the second, so I really only got to see the Betsey Johnson tent show, didn’t lament absenteeing the rest except for Baby Phat and the show we sponsored for Kesh, […]

David Foster Wallace died by apparent hanging on Friday in his California home. He was discovered by his wife. I developed my writing by reading sharp essayists in my late jr. high/high school years, marveling at their style and pressing myself to shape a strong personal narrative voice that was true to “how I talk,” […]

I found out this week that my talk was accepted for this year’s RubyConf! I’m very excited as this will be the first time I’ve spoken to a group this size. The conference will be held November 6-8, which is the weekend immediately after the presidential election so I’m sure the mood will be extreme […]

This is the best example of Sarah Palin’s A. idiocy and B. apparent inability to pick up a newspaper regarding the war in the Middle East to learn the definition of “Bush Doctrine” C. hyperactive snaky defensiveness that is snippy and paternalistic and patronizing in the exact same way as Dick Cheney. This titch be […]

While I was in Portland, my roommate Mo bought a tube of bright orange lipstick and entered this Sarah Palin lookalike contest at some corny bar. Mo is probably the most proselytizing Obama fan that I know; she is also my favorite character actor in the $12-50,000k/year income bracket. I have seen excerpts from her […]

Get the facts straight! LOL Addendum: this is referring to an article I vaguely recall writing eight years ago. I have no idea what it said (when the WW’s weird publisher mentioned this article to me at a party a couple nights ago I didn’t even remember that the director of a major national music […]

Personal Advisor is a service available to anyone looking for perspective or suggestions on living their daily lives. Participants in this service will be linked with other advice seekers to mutually provide thoughtful consideration on one matter of pressing importance in each of their lives. The attendants at Personal Advisor, Ariana Jacob and Katy Asher, […]

During TBA, the Social Practice students’ exhibit at the Autzen will direct PSU students and gallery visitors to our Neighborhood Projects throughout the Portland metro-area. After TBA, participants are invited to visit the Autzen to view ephemera and documentation from the Festival. September 8, 2008 – October 4, 2008 PSU’s Autzen Gallery, 2nd Floor, Neuberger […]

Say what you want about Diddy, but the man has emerged from the chrysalis that was his 2-3-year-long corny phase with a fierceness. This year, he turned Danity Kane kind of cool (i know), made a great Trumpish reality show about being his godforsaken PERSONAL ASSISTANT, and popularized his offhand Day26 diss into a citywide […]