Tom Toles on the Epistemology of the Water...
Aug 30th
Hawke and Dove
Aug 28th
Dirty Old Town
Wandering around San Francisco this morning, I was mentally composing its obituary…in relation to...
Aug 27th
Son of Five-Second Reviews
Superbad: Superoverrated. Porky’s with a dollop of heart and a few obvious chuckles. The New...
Aug 26th
“Happiness is good health and bad memory.”
— Ingrid Bergmen (via DK)
— Ingrid Bergmen (via DK)
Aug 26th
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Aug 25th
So, maybe because I’m heading to another hemisphere soon, my ma took it into her head to cook...
Aug 25th
Chocolate Almond Lacey cookies. These things fuckin’...
Aug 24th
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Северный Ветер. A decade later, this holds up. The world flows under the snow, weeps with gentle...
Aug 24th
Went to a shopping mall today for the first time since returning to the US. If international...
Aug 22nd
Y: you still look so young what is your secret?
me: Oil of Olay!
Y: really?
me: no.
Y: i got a free tin of la mer but that shit is too expensive
me: I tell people it's because I drink so much whisky. keeps me preserved, like a maraschino cherry.
me: Oil of Olay!
Y: really?
me: no.
Y: i got a free tin of la mer but that shit is too expensive
me: I tell people it's because I drink so much whisky. keeps me preserved, like a maraschino cherry.
Aug 21st
only disconnect...
On my way out of the Mammoth region, I stopped off for lunch at a place called the Base Camp Café....
Aug 21st
Paging St. Anthony?
“I went into the woods because I wished to live deliberately” wrote Thoreau. So, too, do I, in my...
Aug 20th
Minaret Lake at dawn, Aug. 16
Aug 20th
The Meaning of Liff
Aug 20th
Return of the K-man
Traffic straight from the 9th circle of hell on the way up to Kennedy: Fremont a fucking twelve mile...
Aug 19th
“What is history but a fable agreed upon?”
— Napoleon Bonaparte
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Aug 19th
I think I’m losing all ability to focus on the task at hand. Several times in the past couple...
Aug 9th
Sergei Schurakov squeezes no more: When the saints go marching in, he’ll be the one...
Aug 8th
“In the long term everyone traffics in forgone conclusions,...”
— Paul Neilan, Apathy and Other...
— Paul Neilan, Apathy and Other...
Aug 8th
Heave-ho for Hermie
End of the UCSF dental follies. I wasn’t going to go back at all, but then I felt a twinge of...
Aug 6th
Here we go round the prickly pear...
Reading the new Harry Potter at the moment…which seems appropriate because my own old...
Aug 5th
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The things you find on YouTube: always wondered what a “less electric” version of this...
Aug 4th
So long and thanks for all the fish. Thie na hAwiney,...
Aug 3rd
So the ‘rents have finally sold the cabin. I have the odd feeling that I should be mourning...
Aug 3rd
Five-Second Record Reviews
The White Stripes, Icky Thump: Thumpy enough, but perhaps not enough Ick. A come-down from their...
Aug 1st