Category: Miscellany

  • Thank heaven for Orcinus

    If Orcinus had a syndicated (RSS) feed, I’d put his headlines write on the main Mediajunkie page. By catching up with him today, I learned that someone actually is now transcribing Rush Limbaugh, got frightened by signs of the demonization of dissent, read about a Karl Rove lie on the record, got caught up on…

  • A day in the life.

    A day in the life. x: got some quotes of deductible vs. premium tradeoff at progressive. x: also getting a quote from gecko. b: i tried to call you earlier…D and I were discussing his coming over for dinner tonight & Buffy watching… b: then he got a call from S saying she and S…

  • Nothing to see here. Test

    Nothing to see here. Test category-based trackback ping functionality between this blog and metaxian, which really sohuld be and eventually probably will be just a category of this blog. Now move along.

  • Bofus?

    Damn! I subscribe to Mike Watt’s mailing list and wade through tons of announcements for gigs in the southland and then I miss a rare Banyan appearance in an intimate SF room? What’s wrong with me? How frustrating. It’s been too long since I heard my favorite bass player. Scot Hacker was there: To Elbo…

  • Bit the bullet

    Just now finally got around to upgrading the version of Movable Type driving this X-POLLEN blog. Since I installed version 2.5 there was a 2.51 upgrade and possibly a 2.52, and then the recent more substantial release of 2.6, quickly followed by bugfixes 2.61 and 2.62. So I managed to avoid a lot of interim…

  • Spare minimum

    The reverse cowgirl told me about this 5 line site, saying “thought this might vaguely entertain you.” The challenge, make a self portrait in 5 lines. Before studying the rules (380 x 380, what constitutes a line) I started doodling in the empty spaces left in a recently filled note book. These were my first…