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.

Not forgotten

Today I got an email about one of those websites that tracks people you went to school with; it was a page for the Jefferson class of 1985, and of course I started poking around to see who was listed. And there was a  [more...]

November 25, 2005

On the Board

The War with the Customer

Buy Nothing Day

Today is “Buy Nothing Day,” designed to highlight how all-emcompassing our consumer culture really is. And I intend to observe it — after all, I’ve been on a buying binge for a few weeks now. So  [more...]

November 25, 2005
General Annoyances

It’s only natural

Back at my rental house in south San Jose, someone in the neighborhood had moved out last month, leaving the windows open. One of their smoke detectors had a weak battery, and it began to beep once a minute. The house  [more...]

November 23, 2005
Right = Wrong

Sock it to me, sock it to me

You know what really burns me up? When some organization or group gets all discriminatory and then tries to dig themselves out of the hole by saying something conciliatory. As in the Vatican’s anti-gay missive:  [more...]

November 23, 2005
Life... Don't talk to me about life.

I meant to do that

If you visit my house and notice that the two fluffy white towels in my bathroom have very different patterns, please don’t assume that I just picked up two towels at Costco without looking closely at what I was  [more...]

November 22, 2005