Category: Miscellany

  • Occasional dispatches from Iraq

    Long story short, I have a friend in Iraq named Delshad. He is a Kurd and he lives in northern Iraq, in the northern no-fly zone. Last fall he was trying to get out of the country, but only got as far as Syria and then returned. With the war on, I thought I’d post…

  • Rainswept false spring

    Mailed a birthday card, bought some champagne, returned a video, snapped some pictures. The plum trees have turned a lurid crimson maroon. The recent rain has polished the lens of the sky to its east-bay finest. You wouldn’t believe how many pictures of clouds I’ve taken over the years.

  • If your eyes are windows to your soul

    …then what is your mouth? It’s great to have my new camera, though I’ll need to get a larger flashcard soon (or stop using the silly movie feature). Treated myself to lunch today at Mama’s Royal Café, the site of one of my first date’s with B.

  • With apologies to Stealer's Wheel

    Hawks to the left of me, perverts to the right Here I am, stuck in the middle with you

  • Mick takes the bait

    I realize I’m falling for a deliberate imitative “fallacy” when Nick Denton contrasts the Iraq/antisemitism storyline with one about drunken Irishmen. It reminds me of an EU chart in a late ’80s copy of the Economist I was reading for free on one of my first flights from New York to San Francisco. There were…

  • Found in my files (overheard, verbatim?)

    top of myfuckinggame these guysin d—best guys 9 yrs comatosediabeticjunkie   get some fuckinkid you can pushit aroundpay him more moneyget somebody topush his craparound I’ll go where I can withpeople like me.