Urban Honking

If you have not yet sat down and read the Jezebel column “Crap Email from a Dude” in its entirety DO IT NOW. This one’s the best – both cause of the astute and highly relatable statement “Summertime brings with it two things: weddings, and bad decisions,” and the text from John Doe – classic […]

Before we get into it, I just wanna say: These are, as Pete pointed out, the last few days to wear white pants with abandon. Now. I have long been of the opinion that Rodney “Darkchild” Jerkins is the scourge of the universe. He was good in the ’90s, but for the past, like, three-five […]

It’s in full force, now, in my window, letting out its scent, low-key lilac with an undertone of velvet. It only blooms after dusk, unassuming little pronged flowers, but its understatement and fragrance subsume physical beauty, because physical beauty is not everything. Sometimes it’s the subtext. I have some triumphs, but the fate of my […]

Watched Syriana again – what a feat, in acting, in screenwriting – and, spurred by Chris’s dirty-global-dealings brainfont, not to mention my concurrent reading of the behemoth anthology of brit journalist Robert Fisk’s reportage from the middle east – I am newly obsessed with Robert Baer, the former CIA agent on whose experiences that movie, […]

In the shortlived but brilliant HBO fake-reality show The Comeback, Lisa Kudrow is cast as an aging ’80s soap star who gets a new job as a jogging-suit mom on a teen sex comedy. In one scene, she spends like 20 minutes rehearsing her sole speaking line – “I didn’t need to SEE that!” – […]

So, out of the blue, I spent a few hours collaborating last Friday with a major open source thought leader to design a logo (above) for one of his projects. Here’s the story… Early last week, Sun senior Web guru, co-chair of the Atom Publishing Group, and recent RailsConf keynoter, Tim Bray, wrote a blog […]

As a fan of both Marcel Duchamp and Miuccia Prada, I am newly in love with the Virtual Shoe Museum: an art gallery where footwear is functional and conceptual, and broken up into categories for use: Birth, Death, Marriage, Prop. I am particularly fond of the Stereo Stilettos, – already got the beat in my […]

My last few precious hours in Anacortes, Washington, are thus far being spent in my empty studio, eating Lays potato chips for breakfast. Last night we finished my album and I burned 30 copies of it and this morning I got up and put a couple stacks of them in various local establishments. The album […]