Leonard and I have returned from a sojourn in Southern California, where we witnessed the Andrew/Claudia wedding. Congratulations! I'm glad we also got to see Frances, Rachel, Susanna, and John. And Gretel, Frances's dog. Gretel …

Salon just redesigned its main page. I am basically dismissing out of hand any complaints from the first 24 hours, unless they come from someone whose judgment I trust, because web users are curmudgeonly and …

"The woman was in the 300 block of Niagara Avenue, about a block from the Balboa Park BART station, when about 10 kids -- both boys and girls -- assaulted her and stole her purse, …

There's someone I have to email who works for Multimedia Games. However, every single email I send to any address at that company gets bounced with the error: 500 Mail appears to be unsolicited -- …

Salon carries a series called "Object Lust". The Oct. 4th feature: me on home delivery of organic produce. I go on and on about beets and persimmons, tee-hee.

MC Masala for this week takes you to a suburban house in boomtown Silicon Valley, a generic place where I remember spending every weekend in the 1990s. Kids ran around the house, shrieking and playing, …

I only appreciate good editors when I run into an edit that makes my work worse.

Years ago, when I worked at Cody's Books, I got to introduce Bruce Sterling. I got a giant cardboard blowup of his book cover, and I've never quite figured out where to put it. Last …

As Jon Carroll has noted, book reviews can spoil you in another way: The review is so wonderful I am almost afraid to read the book; more than once, particularly with the New York Review …

I'm listening to Dar Williams, "What Do You Hear In These Sounds," and I see Jon Carroll: It's the making, I think. The making is the important part. If you are lucky enough to be …