Greetings from my new home in Vancouver, WA. Up until two months ago, I didn't know Vancouver, WA even existed and now I'm sitting i...

Moving is a blast--don't ever let anyone tell you differently. Here's a journal entry I made a few nights ago. Note my organizationa...

I've been thinking about housing lately, mainly because we went and bought a house (more on that later). I read Winifred Gallagher's...

They just keep on coming. This one was around 4:40 this morning during what must have been a pre-earthquake before the 4.0+ quake shook us a...

Are you wandering around Oakland, wondering what to buy or where to hang out? OaklandGoods will steer you straight. You can't enter the...

Long ago, in 1983, the reigning queen of pop music did not lip synch, kept her drug use under wraps for most of the decade, made sure her sh...

...don't you hate sentences that start like that? And the dream usually is crazy--crazy boring! No one wants to hear your dreams--that...

This Friday, July 6th, The Tatami Mats will perform "Dark Side of the Uke"--a ukulele-only version of Pink Floyd's "Dark...

Happy Pride Day. I'll be celebrating my dad's 70th birthday tomorrow and needless to say, we won't be at the parade. But here ar...

More children's book weirdness from the donation box at work. Obviously, I have a great job--it only took 25 years to find one. This boo...

Arty bloggers are always posting their weird found objects and saying, "Hey, look at this old stuff I found." This blog is no diff...

1934 - Betty Boop, Cab Calloway, Max Fleischer and thou. LikeTelevision Embed Movies and TV Shows

I've been trying to get a little photo up for my profile but Blogger keeps taking it down. So here's a THIRD attempt. This time I...

In keeping with the concept of Joy Division Sneakers , I came up with some new clothing design ideas that will combine the latest in active-...

Custom-designed New Balance shoes inspired by Joy Division's 1979 debut, "Unknown Pleasures." Kind of sporty. So very many Lov...

The online version of the Canadian comic strip "For Better or For Worse" features characters with blinking eyes - freaky! Mr. Ben...

Once again I find myself partaking in a somewhat odd music happening. The Festival of Fitness will be a bbq show at the Stork Club with 12 b...

Healing Iraq .

It's a grim Memorial Day for a lot of people. The NY Times has an article about U.S. soldiers who are questioning why they are in Iraq,...