Owlish Shrubbery
Posted on August 12, 2008 - Filed Under
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WikipediaI like it when writers go after other writers, and you can hardly blame Alex Von Tunzelmann here:
These weak chapters show up the worst of Meyer and Brysac’s writing style, which is sometimes pretentious to the point of incomprehensibility and becomes more so when they seem to lack interest in their subject matter. The thesaurus [...]
Kill Me / Driving
Posted on June 25, 2008 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentOnce upon a time, I used to make “Mixes” for my friends & family, distributed throughout the USA after being “burned”. One such mix landed in my sister’s mini-van along with her family, including a then 3(?) year-old “boy” who had cottoned to This Year by the Mountain Goats, often requesting it enthusiastically, “Play the [...]
Read More..>>Look out world.
Posted on October 10, 2007 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentI’m easily one of flickr’s smaller users, refusing to pay for an upgrade, and vaguely ashamed of my dinosaur of a digital camera that was even down-market when I bought it. As such, it was with great surprise and glee to learn yesterday that the millions of strangers out there may, in fact, stumble [...]
Read More..>>Bumbershoot, ho!
Posted on August 29, 2007 - Filed Under
| 1 CommentM and I will be making our semi-regular (irregular?) trek to Seattle this Labor Day weekend for Bumbershoot.
The Stranger has their guide.
Seattle Weekly has one, too.
I’ll go ahead and ask the internet for any suggestions on who to see/skip (gladly taken in the comments or email). Too bad Wu Tang and Ted Leo couldn’t take [...]
Power Ranking, this time geography
Posted on July 24, 2007 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentWith my best man now in Portland and a friend now in Alaska, there is an even-money chance of my having visited all 50 states by the end of W’s reign of terror. Being in a list-making mood of late [foreshadowing], I thought it’d be a good opportunity to compile a list of my [...]
Read More..>>homophone home
Posted on June 28, 2007 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentM & I are heading back to the Big O for 4th of July weekend. I just got One Percent’s show email and see that July 2nd at two different venues I can choose between Page France or Sage Francis. I’ve been confused enough previously by their similar names and now I’m going to be [...]
Read More..>>flight school
Posted on April 12, 2007 - Filed Under
| Leave a Commentyoutube & free association lead me from indian superman to 18wheel porn in 3 moves. checkmate!
Read More..>>Honeymoon Travelog - Day 1: San Francisco, CA to Calabasas, CA
Posted on October 2, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentI will try and put together some posts recapping Monica and my recent jaunt across the American Southwest, for my benefit more than anybody elses. What follows is a complete, honest and accurate recap of all events that have transpired, one day at a time. Valerie Bertinelli, this one’s for you.
Date: Saturday September, 16th
Start [...]
Greetings from the Road
Posted on September 21, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentMonica and I are crashing in Brownwood, TX in preparation for out triumphant entrance to Austin. There, our couple of days of kickin’ it will be highlighted by an M. Ward show. After a brief detour (Hoover Dam was closed?!?!?) we did make it to the Grand Canyon where we stopped for 2 seconds to [...]
Read More..>>What To Do in Austin, TX?
Posted on July 27, 2006 - Filed Under
| 5 CommentsWe’re1 getting married soon at BMK HQ. For Phase II2 of the honeymoon, Monica and I will be taking a road trip, departing from San Francisco on September 16th and returning on the 30th. Our only firm plan so far is to arrive in Austin, Texas on Friday, September 22nd for an M. Ward [...]
Read More..>>Drove The Wrong Way Down 169
Posted on June 30, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentWell folks, I’m off to Minneosota for a long patriotic weekend of drinking & illegal fireworks, along with a rendezvous to celebrate the 2nd birthday of my nephew H. James.
But in the frenzy of this free day off from work, let’s not forget about what the 4th of July is REALLY about: police blowing [...]
Coachella Prequel
Posted on April 29, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentGreetings from Rancho Mirage, CA — where I am setting up camp for this year’s Coachella. To get it the swing of things, I caught Quasi at Cafe Du Nord in SF — very good, especially the “guitar” songs.
Today looks to be more of a warm up for tomorrow’s lineup, but is still strong. Planning [...]
Further, More
Posted on March 2, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentSince the city’s smoking ban went into effect Jan. 1, Walker has allowed people to eat and smoke in a converted city bus, which he calls the “Freedom Flyer.”
Read More..>>Follow Me into The Dark
Posted on January 17, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentIn approximately 30 days I, Tito Perez, of Black Market Kidneys fame will begin blogging anonymously. To coincide with this, I will begin granting interview requests from numerious high-profile media outlets. Early contenders are Hollywood Insider, The New York Observer and Craigslist MCs. If your people want to get in touch with my people before [...]
Read More..>>I Have Dug Wall Drug…
Posted on January 12, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a Comment…but not in 2005.
San Francisco, CA
Omaha, NE
Palm Springs, CA
Dunsmuir, CA
Yosemite, CA
Chicago, IL
Seattle, WA
Novi, MI
Ann Arbor, MI
South Bend, IN
{via Scott}
I’ve Got A Bitchin’ Gas Bill
Posted on January 9, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a Comment“The Camaro concept is among a number of performance cars on display that harken back to the V-8-charged glory days of the 1960s and early 1970s.”
Read More..>>Kissing The Past’s Ass
Posted on January 4, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentI got back yesterday from a couple days back home. I’d hoped to catch a show on one of the four nights I was in Omaha, but checking out the local music pages, it looked like the only interesting show over the holiday would be a Darktown House Band revival the night before I got [...]
Read More..>>These Days
Posted on December 28, 2005 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentThis time of year, I’m prone to thinking of back home. Back home regular readers may know, is Nebraska. They(?) say you can never go home. Once again, I triumph over cliches by, in fact, returning to Omaha for a couple days to rock in the new year and celebrate Christmas with the family. [...]
Read More..>>Workers of the world unite
Posted on December 22, 2005 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentDay three, just to keep you up to date: the first day I said fuck it and worked from home. Then they announced free breakfast and lunch for the duration of the strike! So day 2 I made sure I found a car service needing a fourth and spent an hour-forty-five with strangers [...]
Read More..>>Things I learned this weekend
Posted on December 5, 2005 - Filed Under
| 1 Comment> Without MosDef, it’s just another lychee martini techno void
> Ann Coulter and I had different reactions to Good Night and Good Luck
> Helmet bassist Henry Bogdan now fronts an old-timey Hawaiian jazz band
> Woody Allen is a picky shopper
> I’ll soon be sent off to France on business
