Salon lives on the 16th floor of a building in San Francisco. Today I look out our window and watch the fog blur and soften the skyscrapers. In some spots I can watch clouds of …
My sister has safely made it to India. She'll be knocking around India and Kyrgyzstan (Capital: Bishkek) for a bit and then coming back to the US to settle in DC and go to grad …
Yes, this conversation took place near an authentic water cooler. "I have grandiose laundry plans for the weekend. There's gonna be detergent, there may even be fabric softener." "That's going a little too far for …
Extremely funny, via an offhand remark in Slate: why nobody says, "Let's go buy a condo in the valley of the shadow of death!" Really sad and disturbing: British weapons adviser possibly found dead. "Kelly, …
This morning I saw a bit of Reading Rainbow and thought two things: What if Reading Rainbow is a huge payola scam for certain publishers? LeVar Burton in a back room shaking down Random House …
First there was The Holy Tango of Poetry, and now we have the much more profane version which includes Jewel.
Last Comic Standing last night was a travesty. Dat's act was immensely less funny than Dave's, yet Dat won the audience's vote, and I cheered. I cheered because he's Asian, the only Asian in the …
One subscriber signed up for one of Salon Premium's benefits, a free six-month subscription to Mother Jones, and accidentally called it "Mother Hubbard."
Saw a lovely The American Experience last night, with that dish Simon Schama talking about an 1849 murder at Harvard and the inevitable historian's problems of anachronism. In the film, Simon Schama hems and haws …
More good Achewood strips: loathing and fear.
