Category: bodega

Just posted this to RFB but realized it belongs more over here (or maybe in “artsflow” – it’s kind of hard to decide sometimes): WebCollage

Three new items (two serious announcements and one forwarded piece of satire) up at Uncle John’s Blog. (Archive of today’s latest post at Other Ones to Play Oakland 12/5 and 12/6.)

Kitty Bukkake watches a porn flick while listening to NPR and writes a wickedly accurate, down-to-earth blog entry entitles A Bukkake Home Companion (Contains frank descriptions of pornography, bodily fluids, and Garrison Keiller.)

I overheard myself just now saying “shift-printscreen! shift-printscreen” when actually looking for the Grab application on this Mac. (Shift-printscreen is PC jargon.) Last night while watching Frasier typing up copy for his “Wine Corner” segment on the restaurant reviewer’s show ona strangely small chunky looking off-white laptop, as he leapt from the table to respond…

Re-reading How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Panopticon by Cory Doctorow, I am struck again by how on-the-ball and fun-to-read he is. Added Google search to RFB over the weekend and email subscription today (with instructions how to do all dat). Could add same to bodega but don’t know if it makes…

Short notice, and Bay Area-specific, but I still thought this worth passing along, from Scott Rosenberg: Readers in the Bay Area are invited to Cody’s Books in Berkeley, where on Thursday evening (Oct. 3) a panel of Salon editors and contributors — inclding David Talbot, Joan Walsh, Jennifer Sweeney and Chris Colin — will talk…

I’ll send a copy of my Dreamweaver book (or something else if that’s not needed) to the first person who can identify the source of the subject of this entry.

Porn is Hacking What makes pornography (let’s stick to visual porn for the sake of discussion) work the way it does? That is, how do images of bodies, body parts, or sex arts stimulate sexual arousal in a way that’s useful for masturbation? Then also have a look at the silicone sex dolls that are…

B sent me this link to Riparian Rabbit Release for the bunny pix but these guys just aren’t as cute as Hoppy was.

When is the sequel to the Matrix coming out? I seem to recall them filming it in Oakland last year. The original was on TV tonight. It was fun seeing it again, though not quite as impressive on our little screen. The Matrix also seems like it was the killer app for DVD. One question,…

The always-hinky MichaelZ sends along this link to the Scrotum Gift Shop down under.

I’ve started working on a still-under-wraps project this week and for the next month or three I will be a lot busier. I expect therefore to have less time for blogging, here, at RFB, and elsewhere. I imagine I’ll still post nearly daily at least somewhere, but not necessarily here (I’m working on a tool…

Today Radio, the tool I use to keep Radio Free Blogistan up-to-date is malfunctioning on me, refusing to past the last couple-seven entries. Oddly, you can see them by going to today’s archive page but not on the home page.

Saw the Giants paste the Padres last night with an old friend who happened to be visiting from San Diego. My first time in the new stadium. Pretty cool. It would be even better for a day game, I’m sure. One odd thing is the rule against going back into your seat while a batter…

B writes: “The biologists told me that many of these dead fish are very bright and healthy looking, except for the part about them being dead.” —Paul Wertz, an information officer with the California Department of [Dead] Fish and Game.

I was wondering about this while racing through the Sopranos’ season three on VHS (no cable), the shot of the twin towers in Tony’s rearview mirror during the popular opening-credits sequence. I assumed they’d take it out or replace it, and Nick Denton has the scoop.

It’s bad enough the guy dressed up the dogs he molested in bras and panties, but did he have to kill them too?

Well, that little thing I blogged over the weekend about being motivated by orgasms, praise, and money (not necessarily in that order) got picked up by Dave Winer on a slow news day and drove a bunch more traffic my way. I fixed some typos but only after the first few hundred had already read…

This line cracked me up in today’s Tom Tomorrow.

These are the incentives that truly motivate me. Is there something I told you I’d do several weeks ago that remains still undone? Did I promise you a considered reply to some thoughtful communique of months ago? Was there a list of interested reviewers I promised to provide you weeks ago that I finally did…