Just As I Thought

Fun Stuff

Portrait of the Artist

Ah, that day when my friends Sara and Lance and I went to the Hirshhorn gallery to see the Laurie Anderson exhibit, and turned around to discover that we were being followed by… Laurie Anderson.

April 24, 2023

Life... Don't talk to me about life.

Why won’t Mother Nature let me sleep?

On Thursday in San Jose, it was an earthquake that roused me from sleep; this morning in Austin it was a roaring thunderstorm, knocking things over and booming among the hills. I enjoyed both, actually. Granted, if [more...]

June 17, 2006

On the Board

Fun Stuff

Earth shakin’, back breakin’, body rockin’ good times

Motherlode, the album that I played such an infinitesimal role in bringing to life and wrote about incessantly, is coming to stores on Tuesday. I'm flying off to Austin tomorrow to have a little fun at the release [more...]

June 15, 2006

Fun Stuff

Event nc51171759

Well, that was fun -- earthquake!

June 15, 2006

Fun Stuff

The $400 Steak

Okay, so: take the cost of a new grill (plus two hours to put the thing together), add a container of propane, stir in a grill cover and a set of grill tools and top with a 14 oz steak… and soon, your dinner cost [more...]

June 14, 2006

Fun Stuff

The bitch sliced him up

June 13, 2006

Right = Wrong

Tuesday downers

Two pieces of bad news today: first off, Dubya has flown off to Baghdad on another one of those secret surprise visits his groups seems to love so much — the bad part is, he’s not staying. Second, Karl [more...]

June 13, 2006

The War with the Customer

About 11 years too late, TiVo

I’ve complained in the past about how long it takes TiVo to get things done; we’ve been waiting years for a stand-alone HD TiVo that still hasn’t hit the stores, they still haven’t managed to get [more...]

June 12, 2006