Woke up thinking, "What am I doing tonight? Besides the A Cuppa Tea open mic, besides some Cody's event. There's something else..." Then I remembered that, in my dream, Zack Weinberg, who resembled Lieutenant Reed …

Your present to celebrate your return from the wilds of Marin: How to Talk Like Sumana.

I have never smoked marijuana, and yet it often appears in my dreams. Maybe it's the equivalent of wiggling fingers and whispering "wooOOOooo": a "this is a fiction" signifier. In last night's dream, I thought, …

Hilary, Nandini, and I tonight participated in an Asian American Theater Company event at "Romeo 5" in San Francisco. I put "Romeo 5" in quotes because that title rightly belongs to a band or a …

The UC Berkeley front page, for today only, prominently features my mug! Pretty jolting.

I am currently rearranging a stack of purchase orders. Soon they will be in order by PO number. As Jon Carroll once repeated to himself (more like this), "Man shall be saved from repetitive labor." …

He liked the stickers. Cody's was great, last night; the very funny woman who introduced me had made up "NEO-CRAP? NOPE!" stickers, some customers availing themselves of these when it came time to have their …

See, I thought the Apollo audience's input would affect the outcome indirectly, through the filter of somewhat Burkean judges. But no, as one correspondent put it, it was Lord of the Flies, meaning really unpleasant …

William Gibson stops by Cody's Books tonight at 7:30 pm, and I get to introduce him. He'll be reading from his new book, Pattern Recognition, which sounds interesting. As per his wishful thinking/request, I'm making …

I hear Saddam Hussein is trying to get these forbidden aluminum tubes. Well, of course! He's trying to construct a nuclear bong! Leonard says that's more of a Kim Jong Il thing to do. World's …