Category: Music

  • Mr. Sun on teh funny

    Mr. Sun: Humor on the Web – what I’ve learned and where I’ve learned it is an online version of Mr. Sun’s presentation from this past week’s SXSW. All of the advice is good, but the last point must become your mantra: When in doubt: robots and monkeys.

  • Gourds last night, the Resentments tonight

    Went to Stubb’s barbecue last night with Syrup and her beau to hear the Gourds and Old 97’s. Tried to eat there but there was 45-minute wait so we went to Jaime’s across the street and I had – wait for it – tex-mex again! Shrimp enchiladas were excellent, as was the top shelf margarita.…

  • Don't mess with Oakland

    I told B I was going to wear my A’s cap in Austin at SXSW because it’s sunny there and I’d need an eyeshade and she thought that maybe Texans would be offended but I said that was silly. We can all represent our home towns without giving offense, right? Anyway, here I am blogging…

  • Awkward silence

    For some odd reason both of the outgoing mail servers that route mail for me from my various addresses are stalling out repeatedly at the moment. This means I have about seven or eight messages in my queue that aren’t being sent out. This means that I may be trying to reply to email from…

  • We can rebuild it

    I tore down the monolog at x-pollen and built it back up as a new standalone blog. It was a fake blog before. Now it has its own blog number in my system and for the time being it will only update when I update it manually (at least until I get a crontab working).…

  • Blog is beautiful

    Jerry Brown is blogging. He is also running for attorney general of the state of California. He is also the mayor of Oakland. I voted for him in the California primary in 1992. He still has the generic TypePad design. Welcome!