Participate in this Exciting Reader Challenge!I am fucking bored, apparently. Perhaps I should go do something constructive, like copyedit some bathroom wall graffitti or straighten up the driftwood down on Ocean Beach…
The following is the result of taking a chunk of English text and using Babelfish to translate it to Korean, and then translating that […]
It’s that time again! The DMS-4*, industry compendium of all mental disorders great and small, has been updated with dozens of new flavors of contemporary madness. Are you nuts yet? If “d’oh” can make it into the Oxford English Dictionary, why shouldn’t compulsive instant-messaging make it into the DMS-4?
Better go through the new […]
Once I would have thought that the heavens had torn open and started to spit and spark because of the way I felt today. Perhaps someday I’ll believe that the thunder and lightning induced a sympathetic response from my lower nervous system and made me feel that way. But for now it’s enough to report […]
I want to share a thought offered by Tom Friedman, foreign affairs columnist for the NYT.
He’s spent considerable time in Israel, as he told Terry Gross on NPR this week. And as far as living under the constant threat of terrorist violence, he said there were two kinds of people.
Type 1: Survivors. These people […]
You mentioned you liked art that one time, so I began an all-out research campaign in hopes of catching up with your discriminating and expert taste. I spent two evenings in the Library basement, flipping through decades of criticism on microfilm, and, after correllating notes, managed to locate an upcoming showing that would appeal to […]
Let me be the first to launch that particular punwagon…
I’m selling my copy of Maxinquaye. Remember these lyrics?
I got a letter from the government
The other day
I opened and read it
It said they were suckers
They wanted me for the army or whatever
Picture me givin’ a damn - I said never
Well, the image and name of Tricky, a once-beloved, turned-on drop-out, now grace A BIG, FAT […]
Once upon a time, when I was a boy, an old woman who lived down the street gave me a rose. She was tending her front garden as I was coming home from school one Friday afternoon, and she just gave it to me without really saying anything. I could tell she was just liking […]
Friday night I went dancing. Saturday night I went to a birthday party. Sunday night I went to a wedding. And today Lisan and I attended the Day of Remembrance at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium at the San Francisco Civic Center. Right now, I feel like a ripened melon, given just enough water, sunlight, and […]
Random lyrics from: (Roger Waters, Amused to Death, 1991)
I looked over Jordan and what did I see
Saw a U.S. Marine in a pile of debris
I swam in your pools
And lay under your palm trees
I looked in the eyes of the Indian
Who lay on the Federal Building steps
And through the range finder over the hill
I saw […]