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Natural disasters
Just watched an interview of former New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Nagin’s promoting his new book, Katrina’s Secrets; Storms After the Storm, Vol. 1. What was interesting was Stewart calling him out on … Continue reading
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Can’t Stay Good
My friends have this band called Vagabondage, and they’re kinda A Big Deal. Most recently, they’ve released this remix of their song “Can’t Stay Good” by Mixman Shawn, and I’m beyond digging it.
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“A long time ago, we used to be friends.”
J and I have been watching Veronica Mars all week on Netflix. It’s the first time I’ve seen it since it originally aired. I’d forgotten how good it was–and particularly the first season. (I was less interested in the second season, … Continue reading
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Plan 9
Some days, I need to listen to good music to get me through the hours. Today is one of those days, and some of the music to which I return again and again is this archive of a December 20, … Continue reading
Naomi Wolf: The latest contributor to “Caught in the Undertow”
So, back during the 2008 presidential election campaign, after witnessing such mind-bogglingly bad politics in writing by so many well-respected feminist Clinton supporters, it occurred to me that I should publish an anthology called “The Second Wave: Caught in the … Continue reading
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Two special interest groups enter, one group leaves.
When I awoke this morning, hung over after a great Friday night that involved my company holiday party followed by singing at the Shoebox Studio Winter Showcase which was then followed by the Hubba Hubba Revue Chris-manukkah Spectacular, I rolled … Continue reading
Looking over my shoulder.
I keep looking for a way out of this working life I’ve ended up with. Working for other people is not working so well for me. I’d rather be sitting at home right now, peeling back the skin on my … Continue reading
Consolidation.
Hooray for consolidating and streamlining teh blawgs. I just imported all the posts from my old WordPress.com blog into this one. (Shall I end that one with a cleansing fire? Hmm. Good question.) More prominently on the website agenda is locating decent … Continue reading
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Blood sports.
At the Berkeley Slam right now for the Battle of the Bay Indi World Poetry Slam edition. Jason’s competing. I almost wrote “performing,” and that’s what it is, but here, it’s all about competition. And I like competition. We all … Continue reading
Just another manic Monday.
The first day back from a long weekend is always so terribly long. But I’ve had worse Mondays, it’s true. Mexican food, karaoke, and some time with my mother and Jason. It could have been worse.
