So I was skimming Craigslist, looking for a place to hang my hat come October (1st or 31st, I'm not quite sure yet), and in the midst of all the "$650 -- 11X17 bedroom in …
The past few days, I've had great times hanging out with friends and celebrating my birthday. I've seen Zed, Adam, Seth, and Zack, among other people. Zed appreciated Leonard's and my suggestion that the Bible's …
My birthday came and went, and only afterwards did I think to be thankful that I've gotten to live another year.
Students at the University of California at Berkeley have long known that Wurster Hall -- the architecture building! -- is astoundingly ugly. Sure, we idly debate the demerits of Wurster vis-à-vis Evans and Barrows, but …
Today my sister took me to a terrific restaurant at Dwight and San Pablo. Tallulah is like Venus was a few years ago, before people discovered it and it got busy and the preparation got …
Coming soon: reviews of The Seven Samurai, a repeat viewing of O Brother, Where Art Thou?, and the book The Best of Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine.
People have different song-related reactions to this book, entitled The World is a Ghetto. Leonard thinks of "The world is a rainbow / With many kinds of people." I myself am reminded of that Smashing …
I fought with a hidebound and reactionary haircutter yesterday to get the (quite short) haircut I wanted. I fear that she took her revenge on me by making one side longer than the other and …
Excerpt from No More Dead Dogs -- page five -- that sold me on reading the whole book:[Our hero hated a book that his English teacher forced the class to read. Our hero said so, …
I just heard The Cure for the first time earlier today. Neat! Like Belle and Sebastian meets Ben Folds with a dash of TMBG, I say, trying to analogize to the five musicians that I …
