The Congress party won the Indian elections, defeating the "Anti-Muslim riots in Gujarat? What anti-Muslim riots in Gujarat?" BJP. All right! I hope this portends badly for radical religious parties elsewhere as well. I'm talking …
All three of these bits of media experience have something to do with the Middle East! And I didn't even intend it. Last night's Enterprise provoked even more US/Middle East Allegory babble in me. The …
Today my seat neighbor during the KQED pledge drive professed to have gone to school with one R. Kelly (some singer). He also flirted with women who called to pledge their support. Well, that's one …
Will update Spam As Folk Art with reader submissions soon, really. Today I can't even compliment myself with the epithet of hack. Maybe tomorrow.
Over the past three days, I met The Poor Man and The Claw, and got a free "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" mug as a "thanks for taking pledge calls" raffle prize from KQED. Also, …
A little joke. Anyway, Slate covers India's elections so I don't have to watch Namaste America and blink through the Hindi.
My mother taught me frugality in buying shoes -- twenty dollars per pair, tops. However, yesterday I paid fifty dollars for a pair of black flats (work/comedy shoes). I required more than one reassurance from …
Friday and Saturday had comedy stuff. Evidently people do not know who Robert Rubin is. Also, evidently there are unfunny male comics who will awkwardly try to pick up any given non-white-haired woman, regardless of …
I'm doing stand-up again. SAGE, a nice-sounding UC Berkeley mentorship program, asked me to do a $50/head fundraiser on the 26th, so between now and then I'm hitting area open mics (info may be out-of-date). …
This morning I volunteered to take pledge calls for KQED-FM. Let me say that when you ask for public radio listeners who are willing to come into the Mission District at 6:30am to take pledge …
