Googling "city" (results): the first actual city is Kansas City.
How's it going? "Going great. Playing music. Doesn't get any better. I thought you were going to ask me about the war or something." "Working hard. Children are grown. Pretty good shape. In a forward …
Some entity or other, I hear, will put on a free showing of the fun Seattle grunge history documentary Hype! tomorrow evening (Wednesday 14 May) at the United Artists theatre in Berkeley. I enjoyed it …
I see no Google text ads for the keyword "soothing". A customer recently asked for "McLure's book, The Medium Is the Massage." He's not the first. I mix up the author's name all the time, …
A very full weekend. Steve Schultz and I had food and watched the X-Men sequel (enjoyable, but I preferred the multiple allegories of the first film) and generally conversed for about five hours. I got …
[NEVER MIND; see update.] "Position Available: Interpreter, must be fluent in Klingon." Portland, Oregon. "There are some cases where we've had mental health patients where this was all they would speak." There has got to …
My spiteful, stubborn tendencies put me right in Pike's camp. It's his house and he should be able to add a stoop. Intellectually I know the law wouldn't support me on the "if you don't …
I got to introduce the personable Diana Abu-Jaber, author of Crescent (an Arab-American love/food novel), tonight at Cody's. Yesterday I saw Douglas Rushkoff say such things as "I don't believe in 'homeland'" and "And they …
A conversation with SteveS yields the catchphrase "No Context. No Hype." I anticipate less persistence for this meme than I do for "case-diving," the phrase I made up for finding lost books at the bottom …
Better sites than mine have already noted The Eater of Meaning, but I especially adore what it does to pages that were already nonsense. Update: Favorite phrases scammed from meaning-eaten zombie pages:Bacon pi Attitude MistakeDespotic …
