Category: Miscellany

  • MMW and Hot Tuna to

    MMW and Hot Tuna to open for TOO on NYE at the Oakland Coliseum Arena. Thanks to Sue W. for the forward. I seem to be off GDTSTOO’s mailing list?!? > Grateful Dead Productions presents: > > THE OTHER ONES > with Medeski, Martin and Wood, and Hot Tuna Acoustic > December 31 at the…

  • Thought he was searching for

    Thought he was searching for the real killers?. This is probably all over the net, but I just got it in email from JG:…

  • during…

    low turnout for tricks or treats tonight means we have a bunch of reese’s peanut butter cups left over, some…

  • Run DMC deejay Jam Master Jay shot dead at 37

    sad news: Jam Master Jay, R.I.P.. Jam Master Jay, né Jason Mizell, was shot by two gunmen at a NY recording studio, cops say. He was 37.

  • Radio Free Blogistan is…

    via X-POLLEN: I noticed Dave Winer posting about Googlism today and I’ve seen the reference riding up the meme charts but only… (Note, using Googlism yields a popup ad.) Here’s what Google thinks RFB is: radio free blogistan is the second result radio free blogistan is not listed at dmoz radio free blogistan is still…

  • before…

    big ol’ pumpkin from the yuppie grocery up the hill…

  • Don't blame me: I voted

    Don’t blame me: I voted for Sheen. Martin Sheen just called and left an answering machine message urging me to support prop 52, a voting reform proposition…

  • 'Nature Lover, or Something' by Richard Brautigan

    If a mailing list called “The Richard Brautigan poem of the day” existed, which it doesn’t for copyright purposes, today’s…

  • My birthday today and in 1997

    Five years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, I started my first online journal, breathing room. It wasn’t a blog… (continued)

  • 'So Far, So Close' (Call

    ‘So Far, So Close’ (Call for contributors). e-critures.org sez: CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE PROJECT: “SO FAR, SO CLOSE”Due to the speed of today

  • Another attempt to ping the

    Another attempt to ping the metaxian blog. Hate to do this, but there’s no other way. Technicalia, but not interesting. I’ll report if anything becomes interesting….

  • Beck with Flaming Lips tonight

    Beck with Flaming Lips tonight on Conan. My old buddy JG turned me on to Flaming Lips (finally) and when they added a second Beck opened for…

  • Let's put that 'Leftists have

    Let’s put that ‘Leftists have no sense of humor’ meme to rest, shall we?. from MZ: Actual slogans seen at the SF peace march on Sunday: Stop Our Crazed Government. Take Back Our USA.PEACE:…

  • Still unpacking blogses. Having ceased

    Still unpacking blogses. Having ceased posting new content to bodega, I haven’t exactly been tearing it up over here at x-pollen yet (which…

  • Paid LJ users can add

    Paid LJ users can add my new blog as a friend. 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…

  • Envy: the great motivator. Capital

    Envy: the great motivator. Capital Influx confesses her frustration with the success of Jonathan Safran Foer. When I first started hearing his name (of…

  • S.F office space available. from

    S.F office space available. from Watchword Press: Office space: As some of you may know, over the last year we have shared an office…

  • Should I be trying ^] instead?

    Broken Esc key?!?. For some reason my Escape key suddenly doesn’t seem to work, at least in the context of “vi”. It’s essential… (more)

  • Moving my personal blog from LiveJournal to Movable Type

    Lost our lease. Here’s the message I posted to Bodega today to announce the beginning of another move: 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:…

  • Last post at blogs.salon.com

    OK, let’s try this again: Radio Free Blogistan has moved. The last entries posted to the old address are the ones you see here dated October 25, 2002. For current entries, please go to the new address: http://radiofreeblogistan.com/.

  • A fix attempt

    Since fireweaver is squatting on the home page, I got through to radio.userland.com and set up ftp upstreaming to send that category to http://fireweaver.com/blog/. Posting this entry to the home page and fireweaver should get fireweaver pointed where it’s supposed to be and will also I hope restore the integrity of the home page entries.