Look Up for Good Food
I love finding what feel like hidden or undiscovered restaurants when I go out to dine. You know, that place that is up a set of stairs, in an alleyway, or looks ramshackle on the outside but is frilly and frou-frou on the ...
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Song of the week
Because I've been obsessed with Deer Tick since I saw them a couple weeks ago:
When you're in jail and you can't make bail, I got the ...
Pink Bullets
Pink Bullets
by The Shins
I was just bony hands as cold as a winter pole
You held a warm stone out new flowing blood to hold
Oh what a contrast you were
To the brutes in the halls
My timid young fingers held a decent ...
The Veneer of Civilization
I grew up hearing stories of the Japanese aggression in China during WWII. I have this incredible emotional attachment to WWII (not as bad as 1989 though). Part of it is because I feel like it's such a recent past--I am ...
Comedian of Mythic Proportions or Partisan Hack
John Stewart on CNN's Crossfire.
A lot of us enjoy "The Daily Show with John Stewart." Craig Kilborn could never have done anything like this and the direction that John Stewart (or whoever is at the helm of the show) has ...
Falling
"Whatever you do, do not grab my hands." He was all of about 5 feet 6 inches tall, and maybe 140lbs soaking wet, but the glint in his eye told me he wasn't fucking around. I smiled, playing off the idea that I would ever do ...
"Bright Dances, Dark Winds" violin/piano duo concert October 29th
The fabulous Liu-Chew Duo return to U.C. Berkeley's Noon Concert series on October 29th! Violinist Shaw Pong Liu and pianist Monica Chew play a cross-continental program of music by Prokofiev (Russia) and Ginastera ...
I’ve been living in San Francisco for nearly two months now and though I only hopped across the bay I’ve noticed a striking difference. This city’s got character, or rather, characters, ones I never thought would’ve rivaled ...
A "Deflationary Spiral"?!
Recent news articles on the economy have worried aloud of falling prices leading to a "deflationary spiral." The current economic malaise in Japan, as well as the Great Depression are sometimes cited as examples of such a ...
Well well well
Haha. I'm "back", but not for long. Leaving for Vegas on Sunday (wee). I'm gonna be there for my biiiiirthday and for chriiiiiistmas.
Quick update on news.
Laramie Project is out the window. Instead, we're doing an ...