November 2008
1 post
A Good Day
C.Clark (buy the record)
It’s always...
October 2008
1 post
I had this dream... →
that Obama would win Ohio if Matt made a website. He made that website, folks.
September 2008
1 post
August 2008
1 post
June 2008
3 posts
Banh Mi
Andy introduced me to the wonders of the Vietnamese sandwich (banh mi) on my trip to Chicago last fall. I have sought them out around the Bay Area since coming here, but yesterday, a confluence of ingredients and hunger led me to attempt my own. Here is what I did. Made two sandwiches.
2 baguette rolls. I got and froze a bag of 30 of them from Safeway for $3.68 a while back
0.5 cucumber,...
DC will do that to you.
As I got off the train on my home tonight I looked down to see a woman’s foot with a tattoo of the DC Flag! harDCore, indeed. Though sadly, she was not. It is a testament to the insane degree to which tattooing has flooded the mainstream that a woman as conservatively dressed as she was would have one at all…but nonetheless, I got that odd rush of nostalgia for home.
May 2008
1 post
Love → Building on Fire
Sunday, 27 April 2008Long Island City, NY photo: E. Arkin Sunday, 4 May 2008 San Francisco, CA
April 2008
4 posts
Dear Bayard Rustin,
Thanks. j
March 2008
5 posts
You know what's awesome?
Drinking beers and listening to Rachmaninoff play Chopin, that’s what.
14 days to go
until baseball season begins. I am excited: San Francisco is offering me a new set of teams to follow. I kind of lost interest in the Yankees after they turned into a total monolith and I lost my ability to afford to go. However, I’ve always been a fan of Joe Girardi, so maybe my interest will be renewed. But I kind of doubt it. Alright Giants, gimme what you got. $10 seats? I’m in.
February 2008
3 posts
Title of the Month
and it’s the first! But, I can guarantee there will not be a more amusing astrophysical paper title than this one: The Persistence of Memory, or How the X-Ray Spectrum of SNR 0509-67.5 Reveals the Brightness of its Parent Type Ia Supernova
i was going to talk about 3rd Bass
But, sadly, I can’t embed the “Pop Goes the Weasel” video. That song is far cleverer than it has any right to. Instead, I will indulge my well documented obsession with Fugazi. This video distills all my best memories of going to all-ages shows in the DC area between 93 and 98 or so. Incidentally, Amy Pickering was the vocalist for the Fire Party, a seriously underrated...
January 2008
8 posts
many people tell me how exercising makes them feel great. exercising makes me feel an acute need to vomit. unfortunately, i now live in a town that forces me to “exercise” in order to get home at night. you can find me at the corner of heartattack and pine.
Russian Hill Roulette →
You have got to be fucking kidding me.
“it’s our duty
as californians
to show him new life”
– Red House Painters, “Strawberry Hill”
I wouldn't trade one stupid decision for another 5...
a short list of badasses: Claude Shannon, who invented a machine the sole function of which is to turn itself off. and information theory, but whatever. Mr. James Murphy, who writes songs to listen to. Ms. Janet Weiss, who breaks brains & hearts worldwide with fury and finesse
December 2007
1 post
