Category: Music

  • Yesterday

    Feeling productive: Wednesday, February 2 work on modes practice melody licks on guitar get money order for jazzfest tickets blog about state of the onion chat chat about the state of the onion iChat AV w/dad (birthday) make petrale sole with sauce bercy and salad and baguette

  • Songs in the key of January

    A random sample of stuff done this year excluding confidences, of course: Wednesday, February 2 worked on modes practice melody licks on guitar IMd with culture kitchen diva Liza Sabater Tuesday, February 1 paid for Moon over Briones picture grocery shop leftover soup for dinner play guitar and uke with Dan try, but fail, to…

  • State of the Union chat

    Feel like snarking back at the president or celebrating the Iraqi franchise or critiquing the production values of the pageant? I’ll be here: Join in a State of the Union BackChannel Chat, Tonight | Personal Democracy Forum (reblogged from The Power of Many: How to sit in the peanut gallery for tonight’s State of the…

  • Oakland District 2 Council seat candidate's night

    A month or so ago my city council representative, Danny Wan, resigned to take a better-paying position with the Port of Oakland. Justin Horner, the chief of staff for city councilmember Jane Brunner, is one of the candidates for the seat in the special election. He’s also a neighbor of mine. He came by knocking…

  • My arms are killing me

    For a few months I’ve been wondering why my upper arms have been aching. Did I lift something? Is it referred pain? Today, it dawned on me. I’ve been practicing guitar and ukulele for about an hour or so a day for almost a year. No wonder! Now I don’t even mind. It’s just like…

  • It wasn't Flickr's fault

    OK, my bad. I take it back. The various tools for uploading photos to Flickr seem to be working just fine. It was just a hiccup. Then again I don’t like the random bunch o’ photos I get in the sidebar here as much as I’d prefer perhaps the most recent. In other news, I…