Daniel Davies uses grad school principles to talk about policy. I would put that better except that I've just realized that I have overextended myself in promising to lend DVDs of Will Franken's performances to …
Will Franken's new website tells me that he's performing two discrete shows this Saturday, the 30th. I tell you that I'm going to both shows. They take place at The Purple Onion in North Beach, …
One awful customer can be such a drag. Soon! Soon it will all be over! I'm not being all "sweet, sweet oblivion in a bottle!" Rather, I'm saying that this incident only increases my Craigslist …
Recently I have less and less patience for disrespectful or snarky or dumb blathering. I put on my headphones at work less for the music and more to drown out particular people's incredibly useless yakkety-yak. …
Flea talks about bravery and Brendan gives blood. Gordon Atkinson is making the kind of decision that you have to make if you're going to give yourself up to the writing. Chain the wolf to …
Today's MC Masala has second and third paragraphs that the Bay Area Living editor, Cathy Schutz, much improved. Thanks, Cathy. In "Interfaith Dialogue Runs Aground" I recollect a party where I conversed with a former …
The SF Zoo has an exhibit/event called "Parrot Encounter." That sounds ominous. More ominous than the old magazine or comic "Tales of the Unexpected." Today I conceived of a similar magazine or comic: "Tales of …
"Not Quite Thought, Not Quite Speech" tonight at 8 at The Marsh.
Maybe because I saw Mulan a few days ago, maybe because any tales Leonard and I spin for each other inevitably involve frogs.... "I'm a fraud!" "What?" "I said I'm a fraud!" "Oh, I thought …
