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Went to Diesel Books in Oakland last night to hear Lynda Barry talk before a book signing. She is amazing! I’ve always loved her comics (comeeks?) but I didn’t realize what an amazing writing teacher she is! She was funny, honest, and incredibly inspirational. She sings when she’s nervous. She’s really good and unaffected. Sang…

Motley Fool has 10 Tips to Save McDonald’s: 7. You want to milk that Disney relationship and introduce a new revenue stream? When Spy Kids 2 and Lilo & Stitch get released into the home-video market, enter into a revenue-sharing deal with Mickey Mouse and rent the videos and DVDs with drive-through convenience. You can…

A got my notebook back. Left it on Geo’s roof. Perfect balmy weather, like today, after dusk with few stars but a spectacular view of the Williamsburg bridge. I was warned that the sound system could bring the cops. I imagined dj’ing the whole lower-east side. “Alphabet city say ho-o.” “Williamsburg bridge put your hands…

Got the notification yesterday that my Mirror Project submissions were accepted. I think they look even better with the gray background at the site, a subtle framing. They’re still not as good as the toasters, eyeshades, and other found reflections, but for what they are, they’re OK. The first has a kind of Kilroy was…

I’ve always admired online collaborations like the mirror project and I’ve respected it enough to not just waddle into my bathroom and snap some pictures and send them in. Last week in New York I found myself in a beautiful room festooned with mirrors and I snapped a bunch of shots, some better than other.…

I’ll be on TechTV tonight at 7 pm, on the show “The Screen Savers.” I wrote about this just now at RFB. Disturbing referrers: A lot of Google searches for TSS’s Megan Morrone nude are showing up in my logs.

Scot’s popular (especially among BeOS and Mac aficianadoes and other groupies and hanger’s on to his stylistic majesty, like myself – note to self: start scot hacker fan club) foobar blog has moved (comments and all!) to a movable type hosted blog at http://birdhouse.org/blog/. Looks good. I mean to ask him where that template is…

Lately I’ve been trying to make the seemingly disparate things I care about and work on all relate to each other, overlapping and reinforcing, with an eye toward fusing into some new thing that is the thing I do. This is a like a year’s long chess game, often involving difficult decisions, which means letting…

Yesterday afternoon I realized I had zero energy. The weeklong trip to New York, with its consequent jetlag, late nights, early mornings, family dynamics, and memories of last year’s attack, had managed to drain me to empty husk. A little after noon I realized I was passing out so I got into bed and slept…

There might come a time when things between us get just a little bit too weird. We’ll move to different cities for a temporary vacation but it’s just as you feared

My Human Gets Me Blues …if it’s this nice in newyork tomorrow then the beach is going to be great. my sibs and i are (all four of us) are going to jones beach. we may even rent one of those orange and red umbrellas you drive in to the sand as in all the…

Staying at a friend’s place near west 11th and west 4th. The weather is here. Wish you were beautiful.

I think I saw this Jelly Bath site at Rebecca’s Pocket. I especially enjoyed reading the Frequently Asked Questions.

I’m working through the logjam at my web server, having just set up the DNS for some new domains: antiweb.net, x-pollen.com, radiofreeblogistan.com, and a few others. Still need to restart the server to get the new virtual hosts working, set up cgi access where needed. A few need new usernames, permissions, or email forwarding set…

I remember now that they also played When I Win the Lottery and Flowers from Key Lime Pie. The tension between Lowery and Siegal was light and they made light of it, though David wore a cowboy hat that obscured the nonbearded half of his face, and winced when he (rarely, but noticeably) flubbed lyrics.…

Everyone knows I think is the salt of the earth, but only a few know that introduced me to scot. now if we could only entice levi into greater blogistan…

I’m tired of having to generate a new editing window every time I want to link to someone, write something, or edit something. I just made RadioExpress! pop up its editing window in a new window because I want to link to several URI’s in one entry and otherwise RE! takes over the window I…

Check out this one showing the WTC site.

Gnosis, a Salon blog that currently has a John Lee Hooker quotation as its description, notes that the Spanish translation of the artist’s name is suprisingly literal: Puta De las Heces De Juan … means “prostitute (hooker) of the shelters (lees) of John.” Good thing the folks programming the translator didn’t know the slang meaning…

My nose is freezing. Just a week or so ago it was too hot to do anything. Now I feel like Bob Cratchitt hunched over here at my desk.

B gets back from her writing retreat at the shore in Oregon tonight. I am trying to clean the house and make things presentable, after a week of slovenly bachelorhood, mostly devoted to working on my Salon blog and related projects. In other blog news, I renamed the column I’ve been doing at Mediajunkie from…