Maharidge finds historical precedents in post-World War I Weimar Germany for what he found as he traveled post-9/11 America “harvesting” stories of reaction and rage. Germany’s political and economic fall from power and the accompanying nationalism fed Hitler’s rise to power. Maharidge sees in today’s America the awful possibilities of a similar angry nationalism. “Many [...]

Here is a poem I wrote about Wheat Thins. I hope you love it:
Wheat Thins
Wheat Thins, my love,

You could be anyone,
And still I’d chew your corners.
So much wheat, and yet so thin,
I can’t tell where I end and you begin.
Please run away with me, my dear,
I’ll always keep you safe and near,
In the dark [...]

I have a goal. By the end of 2004 I want 95% of my readers to use a browser other than Internet Explorer. So a new feature of the blog is that every Wednesday I will post my weekly browser stats and we’ll see how the progress goes. Red is Internet Explorer. Click on the [...]

Discussed: William F. Buckley, San Diego Union-Tribune, New York Times
A few days ago the San Diego Union Tribune published an editorial lamenting arch-conservative and bigoted William Buckley handing over the reigns of the National Review to his almost-as-conservative son, Christopher. The Union Tribune described Buckley as “irrepressible … whose charm and grace recall a halcyon [...]

A friend of mine just sent me the following “word of the day:” Ultracrepidarian, which means -

Of somebody who gives opinions on matters beyond his knowledge. Or venturing beyond one’s province; presuming.
I hope that he wasn’t trying to say something.
‘Cause I’d have him killed.
Word.

Please look at this post I wrote on San Diego Blog and then sign this petition to help save Miracles Cafe from being demolished. And please get the word out.

Reposted from San Diego Blog:

Last night Scottish indie band Camera Obscura played their first U.S. show with Out Brief Candle and Ex-Maquina at the Casbah. My expectations had been built up by friends comparing them with Belle and Sebastian, Mazzy Star, and the Cowboy Junkies, yet Camera Obscura did not disappoint. The crowd was a [...]

So, I’m sitting at the Grove Cafe at UCSD with my homie Revaz and he keeps asking me about all these terms from articles he has to read for his classes. Here are a few of them:

Homosocial
Manichaeistic
Televisual

Gayle Rubin’s homosocial theory is interesting, but I’ve got a problem with social scientists who turn allusions into [...]

Oso seems determined to find out why the band is called Via Violenta (Violent Way). He has already left two comments on the blog, five voice mails, a disembowled cat, and three emails, all inquiring “why why why why etc.” So here you go.
dirty pretentious reason: “well you see, Oso, its the violent way [...]

Ok so I said that Via Violenta was playing their first show at CBGB’s on Sat July 9th. My girl Priya was quick to point out that Sat July 9th does not exist. I don’t know what i was thinking when i posted that, but I was wrong. Blame it on the Maalox…thats my [...]