Category: Salon Bloggers

  • 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…

  • My server appears to be down

    As of right now none of my web domains appear accessible, although I still seem to have FTP access to my Open Publishing server. I’m x-posting this to RFB’s usernum address on the Salon community server (0001111). I’m depressed about the war. Working hard. Conference coming up. Lots to post about. Server down. Figures. Positive…

  • Here's a job for the x-ism blog

    RFB’s focus has been drifting and to give it coherence, besides just becoming an RSS aggregator of my other feeds, I think I’ll go back to trying to document my PEP (personal expression platform) project there, including some organizational stuff, some IA ideas, but first, mostly a bunch of scans of sketches I’ve done over…

  • This sounds like a job for the Rooster.

    I’m reliably informed that many of the “w4m” ads in the “Casual Encounters” section of craigslist, especially the ones with size-queen overtones (raw language in that link), are actually from gay (or “bi-curious?”) men trolling for cock photos. The real women, I gather, tend to (none of this is ever 100%) request face shots when…

  • Pen is mightier

    Saw this scanning the “tv video radio jobs” want ads at craigslist, dated Monday, March 10 (all [sic]): Screen Writer with big package SF Cop, with published paperback, looking for a real screen writer. No aspiring story-tellers or educated pencil-dicks. My book is raw, and dirty as the streets of Frisco. “The Rooster” is a…

  • Numerology on the cheap

    I really enjoyed this Pushing the Biscuit piece by our local Preacher-with-a-heart-of-gold. Also, what great readers he’s cultivated! What blogger wouldn’t envy his community? Must be a lesson in there somewhere. I notice as I paste the URL for the cited article (http://blogs.salon.com/0001772/2003/03/06.html#a66) into various places that it was article 66 on the 6th of…