Skip to content

Category Archives: personal

Public but personal blog.

6^WD 1Z 3L337!

Wednesday, April 11, 2001

I’m sorry, but I’m not sure how comfortable I am with a blog written in ersatz h^x0r which devotes so much space to praising the Christian deity.

Filed in personal, Short List Temp | Comments (0)

From The Vaults: Vacation Diary August 1999, San Francisco

Tuesday, April 10, 2001

Crappy motel. Proof positive that the “sani-bands” on toilets mean nothing: I pull it off our room’s toilet cover and find drops of urine all over the seat. Hotel’s neon sign is right outside our window. Trolley goes by every ten minutes or so and the Patel Motel Cartel is having a family reunion next […]

Filed in From the Vaults, personal | Comments (6)

Detritus: The Man Under The Marine Layer In The Coco Helado Suit

Monday, April 9, 2001

I’ve finally brought All Mirth No Matter Productions, my ridiculous little fantasy about producing short videos, to life. Currently Internet Explorer doesn’t read the page right, so you won’t get the video loading in the right frame like it’s supposed to. It will load in another window you may not see right away, and take […]

Filed in Detritus, personal | Comments (0)

Detritus: “um, Whatcha eatin’?” “CHHHALK!”

Wednesday, April 4, 2001

Things of note: First of all, y’all Cali-haytas can step. If y’all still don’t know why to like California, my sista take yo a$s to schoo. Captures the character of the local biome succinctly and vividly. Nextly, check out Ariel’s art. Nothin else like it nowhere. I hope she keeps arting in some way; it […]

Filed in Detritus, personal | Comments (0)

The Bearer of Bad News

Tuesday, April 3, 2001

I have never been called upon to be the sole carrier of really bad news before. I frantically cast about thinking of someone else who could do it.

Filed in personal, Personal Best | Comments (1)

Shameless Self-Promotion/ Shameless Self-Congratulation

Monday, April 2, 2001

the writer’s dance I have (I think, in retrospect) committed a horrible faux pas and posted an entire story as a comment on Kuro5hin in response to this story. It was something I’d been meaning to post to my site. arrrgh… never posted to Kuro5hin before, what a way to start. :PPP * * * […]

Filed in personal, Short List Temp | Comments (10)

Vinyl Causes Cancer

Monday, March 26, 2001

Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman, writing for the Corporate Predators mailing list, noted in their latest column that tonight PBS will show an exposé detailing the chemical industry’s silence about vinyl, which they have known since the 1950s is a cancer-causing substance. More interesting to those of you who are smoking-gun wonks will be the […]

Filed in personal, Short List Temp | Comments (2)

Requiem (Habits of Coexistence)

Thursday, March 22, 2001

While I was away in Seattle, my birds died. Still I sometimes catch myself inadvertently looking to the cage.

Filed in personal, Personal Best | Comments (5)

Detritus: You’re Not Serious About Donkeys!

Tuesday, March 20, 2001

Jeff Sharlet, a Hampshire alumn and a former editor of mine, appears to be editing an online ‘zine about religion: Killing the Buddha. Of particular note is their Manifesto. The world needs more special-interest magazines like these and fewer magazines like Miniature Donkey Talk Magazine, which scream for freelancers from between the pages of the […]

Filed in personal, Short List Temp | Comments (1)

Detritus Peripatetica: Queens on St. Patrick’s Day

Sunday, March 18, 2001

Now that it’s getting warmer, it’s nice to walk around Sunnyside again, even in the rain. Sokin and I went out for a stroll around the neighborhood last night, looking to have dinner and dessert. We approached a grocery store I didn’t recognize… five blocks away becomes the unknown. Three small dogs were tied out […]

Filed in Detritus, personal | Comments (5)