Category: an open conversation

14 Aug

Life is so precious

I was roaring up Cesar Chavez (what I still call Army Street) in San Francisco. Out ahead of the heavy, and just off the freeway traffic when my vespa began to shimmy a little beneath me. It felt like a sexy little adjustment at first, as if a passenger were shifting their weight. I was [...]
12 Aug

Control Issues

I wrote a little something about this at the end of my sign off for sunday soul last week, but it seems that my Vestax DJ control surface has expired. It began to go funky in Halifax, and at last died completely just after Sunday Soul: Do you know how beautiful you are? began. Seems [...]
09 Aug

Hang me up!

Guess who’s now officially a member of Gallery C? I’m on display, and available for sale as of today. How brilliant! How wonderful. Yaaaya!
06 Aug

Nothing like a vibrating respitory structure…

I snore. Fuck. I fucking snore. I’ve always known that I grind my teeth, and that I can be a little bit of a “grope whatever’s next to me from deep sleep” casualty, and that’s all bad enough… but I fucking snore. Shit. So what I want to know is what can I do about [...]
12 Jul

Maybe our future is electric?

After Nixon, many presidents set similar goals for energy independence. Every target was missed. Our future is electric ? An excellent article on the future of energy, oil consumption, energy independence and more from The American’s Andy Grove.
11 Jul

italo-phone

If you said something to me, something true… maybe… sometimes I wonder if I could even hear you. It’s like the world is filtered through everything that’s ever been said, or all the crap I did when I should have been in high school. Maybe through the innocent eyes of a very young me, standing [...]
21 Jun

Another look at affirmative action

I really like what Orlando Patterson and Glenn C. Loury have to say about affirmative action in America. With mixed feelings on the subject, I am delighted to sing the praises of anyone who I feel is spot on. Moreover, I am delighted to find myself so surprised, and in such complete agreement with anyone [...]
25 May

Naomi Wolf pretty much rocks my world.

Watch the talk yourself. Try to be patient and watch the whole thing, or maybe just listen. Consider her arguments, and be patient with your response… positive or negative. I think, if nothing else, that this may be a positive example of a step toward new language, and non violent expression of where we can go, [...]