11 Jun 2006, 19:16 p.m.

Sunday Politics/Church Lecture

On my brother-in-law-in-law's blog, some people got to wrangling over the LDS church's position on a proposed constitutional amendment to prohibit same-sex marriage. Some proponents of it played the religion card ("The prophet speaks, I …

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11 Jun 2006, 8:52 a.m.

MC Masala on Being From Elsewhere

One always feels like a country rube in a new place. Paradoxically, my new colleague said, everyone knows someone from Sunnyvale, but no one actually is from Sunnyvale. We kicked this idea around near the …

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10 Jun 2006, 19:24 p.m.

More Art

MoCCA - hard to find, but once we found it, hard to get away without finding moths in our wallets. Leonard and I played rather prominent extras in Episode 12 of Uncle Morty's Dub Shack, …

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10 Jun 2006, 9:12 a.m.

Art Today

MoCCA Art Festival, today and tomorrow, featuring the Overcompensating guy, the Goats guy, R Stevens from Diesel Sweeties, and Ryan North of Qwantz. Sarah alerted Leonard and me, Adam's coming along, it'll be a party! …

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08 Jun 2006, 14:05 p.m.

Bollywood Samples

In case you've never seen a really amusing Bollywood dance number, here are a few good videos off YouTube. "Jan Pehechan-Ho", a sixties classic, made famous by Ghost World. The aesthetic also reminds me of …

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08 Jun 2006, 12:42 p.m.

That's Edutainment

Sometimes the TV spreadsheet magazines in the Sunday newspaper have summaries of what happened in the soap operas over the previous week. When I see one of those, I scan each summary for a mention …

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08 Jun 2006, 9:05 a.m.

In Which A Twilight Zone Episode Is Emulated

So, evidently, if you show up for a party at a major record label in an eight-year-old Napster t-shirt, some employees of the label do not take that in the playful and ironic spirit in …

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07 Jun 2006, 14:15 p.m.

Snapshot

On my desk right now, I have a mug of tea, a pencil, a pen, a Sharpie, some business cards, a box of paper clips, two sticky-note pads, an empty snack bowl, and a plastic …

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04 Jun 2006, 20:43 p.m.

MC Masala on The End of Cody's on Telegraph

My old job is passing away.Starting July 10, no Cody's patron will drift toward the cookbooks in the middle of the afternoon, when the smells of baking from Bay King next door make him hungry. …

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29 May 2006, 14:40 p.m.

Leonard Quote

I asked, in our incredibly hot apartment, "Why are only some of your [shirt] buttons buttoned?" Response: "Oh, I take life as it comes."

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