Category: Miscellany

  • ASPEN MAGAZINE interpreted for the Web

    Small world department, my cousin A.P. Crumlish, who runs bend of bay, forwards me this Ubuweb announcement about Andrew Stafford’s adaptation of ASPEN MAGAZINE for the Web. Readers of this space will recall that Stafford is also responsible for the brilliant Making Sense of Marcel Duchamp…. [artsflow]

  • 'Coffeehouse' reviewed five years down the road

    Wred Fright at Babel Magazine writes a round up of books derived from online e-zine publishing in From A to Zine, but finds most of the content of Coffeehouse unremarkable…. [artsflow]

  • Thanks for the babies!

    Tom the Dancing Bug nails the relentless search for the center. [Bite Media]

  • The Berkeley Bowl. coffee baguette

    The Berkeley Bowl. coffee baguette blueberry scones white wine red wine roasted chicken reggiano pecorino gruyere dozen eggs qt half ‘n’ half qt nonfat milk pavel’s plain lo-fat yogurtses nonfat brown cow toilet paper (9 packs/fat) sardines w/o oil 3 lbs. of country style pork rib (for mex. dish) chicken stock so get…

  • Wet garden

  • What ever happened to…?. When

    What ever happened to…?. When I was a kid there was a fast-food chain on the east coast called Arthur Treacher’s Fish ‘n’ Chips. I seem to recall that Treacher was some kind of celebrity from long before my time. Whatever happened to that place? I can’t think of any other fast-food chains that…

  • Spirits. Dreary weekend, once the

    Spirits. Dreary weekend, once the windy rain had passed. Moped around the house a lot. Didn’t get much done. I should feel better. For the first time in a while I don’t have anything too serious hanging over my head or way behind schedule. It always seems like when I get…

  • after…

    The Pumpkin TideRichard Brautigan I saw thousands of pumpkins last nightcome floating in on the tide,bumping up against the rocks androlling up on the beaches;it must be Halloween in the sea.

  • Waiting for an email reply from me?

    People to whom I owe email replies: I am up to my ears on a project right now, with deadlines coming fast and furious, and I’m taking…

  • Wine country in the rain.

    Wine country in the rain. Going on a belated birthday-related wine country outing today. Napa in the rain. We’ll be touring Domain Chandon where a…

  • Which Horseman is This. This

    Which Horseman is This. This L.A. Times article, The Secret War, scares the pants of me:Frustrated by intelligence failures, the Defense Department is dramatically expanding its ‘black world’ of covert operationsBy William M. Arkin, William M. Arkin is a military affairs analyst who writes regularly for Opinion.

  • Lag time. Just finally put

    Lag time. Just finally put away the suitcase from the wedding a few weeks back. Why do I leave things like that?…

  • Morons.org (satirical left-wing ezine) writer

    Morons.org (satirical left-wing ezine) writer search/contest. Compete and win! Antifundamentalist morons.org is looking to add a writer to their staff and are holding a competition to select the lucky winner. Your prize will be a thrice-weekly voluntary column and a large and growing readership. I’d compete if …

  • Blogging from the Backyard

    Backyard bloggy queue: Taking a tip from one of my clients, I moved my airport base station to the basement today. My network is…

  • Interactive Seattle skyline. From Cal

    Interactive Seattle skyline. From Cal Godot (via antiweb) comes this link to an interactive “before and after” view of Seattle’s skyline….

  • Punkin' Patch Kids. Caleb in

    Punkin’ Patch Kids. Caleb in orange Sam with Pumpkin…

  • Dirty Tricks 2002. Tom Negrino

    Dirty Tricks 2002. Tom Negrino writes:Following up on my post on 11/1 about Republican voter intimidation and vote suppression efforts, Josh Marshall, at Talking Points Memo has two current examples. One of them — the flyer being distributed to black areas in Baltimore — is one of the most appalling political dirty tricks I’ve ever…

  • Pacbell email down. My SBC

    Pacbell email down. My SBC Pacbell account’s email server is down at the moment. It’s this server that handles any mail to my…

  • some of these make no

    some of these make no sense perfectly. MZ sends along this Arabian Random Insult Generator:We no speak english so nice so some of these make no sense…

  • Meta. Jack got the idea

    Meta. Jack got the idea for the first character from an AP release about a Florida family that set the world…

  • Catechism against telemarketers. EGBG, in

    Catechism against telemarketers. EGBG, in the Netherlands, provides this anti-telemarketing counterscript: Telemarketers make use of a telescript — a guideline for a telephone…