Between Worlds

’s Gettin A Bit Heavy In Here

I’m working on my third piece today about someone under the age of 21 getting shot/killed in Oakland. Suddenly today I’m in the obituary business and I’m reminded of how numbing this process can be. How there’s a subtle sense of fatalism in the families of young black men who grow up in places like [...]

The iSquint Trick

One thing I still love is the power of sneakernet, aka learning how to do nifty net tricks in “meatspace” as opposed to some, er, blog. Today, for instance, I learned waht I’m calling the “iSquint” trick: a way of downloading YouTube, SuperDeluxe and other flash videos onto the desktop and then flipping them for [...]

Its Starting Again (Photo Bonus)

Wherein I Confess My Unholy Love of Hulu

That’s Hulu, not Cthulhu.. although now that you mention it, I’m actually a little frightened. Have NBC/Universal and Fox teamed up to smite Steve Jobs or to raise R’lyeh?
More urgently: where’s “Misfits of Science“?
But let’s backtrack a bit… I’m supposed to profess an unholy love.
At first I was pissed about Hulu, the little website with [...]

Solve et Coagula

There’s a principle in alchemical/magickal thinking– a dictum if you will– known as “Solve et Coagula.” Which is Latin for, basically, break apart and put together. For the post-modernists out there in the very limited audience this tranlates to “Deconstruct and Compose”, suggesting in its simplicity a kind of never-ending dance of creation that begins [...]

Sunday Miscellany

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Blue Brick Balustrade

Get ahead of the game, dude

This week has been a kid of info dump extrodinare…
I was introduced to a host of search resources for journalists. Creepy online stuff that shows that no one’s privacy is safe for long. I was also reacquainted with my google standings, and sadly I’ve slipped a few notches from my rivals. There was a time [...]

Everybody Loves A Goin’ Outta Bidness Sale

Today was cool… not just because I got paid, which was a relief, but because after I got paid I had myself a solid dinner at a place I haven’t been to in years (Picante in Berkeley) and then I stumbled upon a Going Out of Business sale at a Hollywood Video.
I know, I know… [...]