Category: Musicology

  • Iggy, the Stooges, and Watt

    Thanks to shacker I just noticed that Mike Watt is playing bass with a Stooges reunion in SF this December: iggy pop + the stooges watt gets the incredible honor of adding bass to the lendary team of iggy and the asheton brothers in some re-ignited stooge fury! friday, december 12part of the not so…

  • Cloudwatcher

    Sometime when I’m headed to the Berkeley Bowl late in the day and my digital camera’s battery is charged up, I grab the cam and stick in my pocket because there are times when the parking lot of the Bowl will provide several wide vistas showing interesting East Bay cloudscapes or sunsets. There’s something about…

  • Blogging the Democratic convention

    Leading left blogger Kos says, in Bloggers at DNC convention: There is interest amongst individuals inside Democratic Party circles to do something special for bloggers at the Democratic Party convention. He invites suggestions about how bloggers can participate in the convention, beyond simply getting press passes. One suggestion from the comment thread attached to the…

  • Exploring DeanSpace

    In order to help the DeanSpace people document their software package for would-be site developers, I figured it was necessary to, like, actually use the software myself. I got a domain name from sites.fordean.net and free hosting from Bruce Forkush, logged in as admin, and started flipping some switches and voila! Oakland for Dean lives.…

  • New photos up

    I’ve posted a gallery of photos from a recent geek dinner in San Francisco, as well a series of food and drink shots, some Halloween pumpkins, and a nighttime shot of the Bay Bridge over at my photo log, Mr. Spontaneous.

  • Night bridge

  • Two Jacks

  • Afterparty

  • Concentric

  • Coffee egg

  • Breakfast circles

  • I more friendlier than I thought

    Although you’re hacking out the future in RDF, you realise that all technology boils down to dating in the end. What social software are you?

  • Weblogging's political lodestars

    Tom Coates writes about the political compass postings that have been meme-ing their way through the blogosphere lately. I know I took the test and posted my results here sometime, but I’d have to use my search feature to find it, or take the test again to see if I’ve drifted or if the questions…

  • The blogging of the president, 2004

    This sounds like a job for feedster: Chris Lydon wants us all to write The Blogging of the President. [Joho the Blog]

  • Beth, I hear you calling

    Scot Hacker asks the musical question, What was your first record? My older sister had the Partridges record he depicts (as well as a few others – all of them?), but the first record I bought myself was Kiss Destroyer, an LP that by pure coincidence was given to me for my birthday last week,…

  • Al Franken kinda blogs

    Visiting the DNC, Franken apparently dictated an entry for the Kicking Ass weblog. I’d read a real Al Franken weblog, if he had the time to write it. Hell, Bill Maher and Margaret Cho do.

  • Tuesday is 'Luskin is a stalker' day

    According to Tom Tomorrow, Neal Pollack is declaring this coming Tuesday (November 4, I believe, “Luskin is a stalker” day. Oh, and Tom (or whomever maintains your blog for you), your RSS feed stalled out some time in September.

  • Blogger threatened by lawyer

    I’m too busy this week to keep up with all the juicy weblog gossip and topics du jour, so I’ll just point you to Rogers Cadenhead’s coverage at his Workbench blog of this emerging story: Atrios, the pseudonymous publisher of the liberal political weblog Eschaton, has been contacted by the attorney of National Review contributor…

  • Documenting DeanSpace

    So much for downtime. My FrontPage book is in the can (but still needs a website), and the revision of my Dreamweaver book proceeds a pace, ably handled for the most part by my new coauthor, Lucinda Dykes. My next major project is more than a month a away. Mostly I’ve been writing fiction lately,…

  • Cranky soup

    When we run out of stuff at home, when we remember, we write it up on the whiteboard magnetically attached to the fridge, so next time I go shopping, if I remember to check the whiteboard, I can remember to get whatever it is we’ve run out of, on top of the usual stuff I…

  • Hosting does matter

    My aggregrator was filled this morning with discussions of blogging outages across the political spectrum (from right-wing to far-right-wing… just kidding), starting with CalPundit and on down. Dean Esmay had the scoop as far as I could tell. Metafilter now has this summary: Last night Hosting Matters (and their related resellers) was taken down by…