Category: bodega

I think my paid membership at LiveJournal may have lapsed, taking away some of the RSS features I was using to stay in touch with my old small friends community. I’d still like to port my LJ entries over to X-POLLEN or into some yet undetermined system like textpattern of ftrain. Need to simplify.

markpasc set up a RSS channel at http://livejournal.com/users/xpollen/ that will mirror all my posts to my new blog. Now I just need to add the RSS feed for my friends page (if it exists) to my Radio Userland aggregator and I will continue to have the same circle of friends in my new technological wrapper.…

I’m afraid LiveJournal friends, that I’ll be vacating this little corner bodega sometime soon, having relocated the locus of my personal blogging to a MovableType-powered blog called X-POLLEN. I will try to do a number of things: Import all my bodega entries into x-pollen (then i may go back and import still breathing and breathing…

White liberal guilt has never been so deliciously skewered. (via MZ)

this new two-tiered password scheme of netsol’s, surely it is designed primarily to once again entangle passive Internet domain holders into staying with verisign out of inertia or, short of that, stuck like flypaper to the new authentication scheme until the inevitable renewal deadline passes. what is the easiest way to get all of my…

“Where is my not-bag not-going?”

review tapers addendum for dead letters magazine finish installing pmachine install and test rss monkey set up godetia and wildflowertrips domains for b set up virtuser mail forwarding for antiweb.net send book promised to friend make household budget plan/prepare for moving site root to radiofreeblogistan.com *set up rss monkey* learn opml final notes on j-school…

first impression of the band: a little more detail: the moon was going down the greek without the people …and some raw notes scribbled during the show: if there’s interest i’ll actually transcribe the scribbles…

…and mightily he smote them. the rumored covers (Zevon’s “Accidentally Like a Martyr,” “Brown Sugar,” Neil Young’s “Old Man”), the reinterps of classics (just like a woMan, i ain’t ME babe), the recent material rousing the audience (Summer Days with its Charlie Christian, Django, old-timey feel with Charlie Sexton and Larry Campbell trading eights in…

From Court News and Monster Weirdo come this report by DeVon Nolt of a lawsuit against Pixar and Disney on the part of Stanley “Mouse” Miller: The lead characters of the movie Monsters, Inc. were illegally copied from characters drawn by cartoonist Stanley Miller in the early 1960’s, according to a lawsuit filed in U.S.…

Saw New Orleans piano genius Henry Butler last night with Amy DeNaio at the tiny 21 Grand performance space in Oakland (the show was produced by Earthwise, and Butler’s appearance is part of a Basin Street Records “invasion” of the bay area also featuring Kermit Ruffins and Jon Cleary at other venues). Wow! Butler is…

The Buffalo Beast names the 50 most loathsome people in America, 2002. Pretty over-the-top (fairly vulgar too), but funny and much of it is hard to argue with. A sampling: 13. SEAN HANNITY Misdeeds:   Without question one of the most smarmy, vile, hypocritical talking heads on television. Has the uncanny ability to vilify and generalize…

Could they possibly cram any more ads into The Onion?

I blame Ev.

After two three days of blazing heat peaking in the midafternoon, it started to cool off yesterday and this morning the sky is totally socked in cloudy from the window of my breakfast nook. It’s a relief. The ultrahot weather has its charms, especially in the evening when its just balmy outside, but I can…

Please don’t kill the messenger! Mahatma Gandhi, as you know, walked barefoot most of the time, which produced an impressive set of calluses on his feet. He also ate very little, which made him rather frail and with his odd diet, he suffered from bad breath. This made him ….what? (Oh, man, this is so…

from Art of the Mix (via MZ): Do you remember a band called Blind Melon? Can you still rattle off the words to “Shoop” by Salt-n-Pepa? Visit this site to test your knowledge of pop and rock lyrics from the 1990s. Hint: look out for appearances from a few hip-hop and country crossover artists. From…

After spending sixteen frustrating minutes on the phone and on the web a few Sundays back, failing to get Elvis Costello tickets. I asked a friend to deal with getting us all tickets to Beck with Flaming Lips at the Paramount Theatre in Oakland. No such luck. He got in after a few minutes and…

Please Lord, slashdot me… but not yet!

I have a temporary need (two, three months) for a PC for a project I’m working on. (There are five Macs in my house and one PC but it’s in the basement and runs Windows 98, ugh.) It’s an old Pentium Pro, so I don’t even know if I should install XP on it (probably…

If there’s one thing the Internet’s good for, it’s finding your old friend and compadres.