This past weekend I was in Las Vegas celebrating the birthday of a friend and generally doing the things that one does in such a timeless, soul-sucking vaccuum of morality. This coming weekend I will be working nonstop from sunrise to late at night. The weekend after that I’ll be in Palm Springs with my [...]

Oso,
I’ve gotta say, these emails are starting to sound a bit demanding. The last time I heard from you was over three months ago. Remember? You wanted everyone to stop asking you so many questions. And now this, a one line email that says only … now let’s see, I’ve got it around here somewhere [...]

In addition to the hot water bottle and plaid green pimp’s suit, my grandparents also subscribed me to Harper’s this Christmas. As it would turn out, these three are now the women of my life; my sole bed companions each night.
Go ahead, scream your bloody protests, but Southern Californian nights have been freezing-ass cold lately. [...]

Part I here.
I was only three blocks from Karen’s condo when the back tire blew out. It was the first time I had ever had a blow-out. Didn’t feel at all like an explosion, but all of a sudden I was riding on the rim. I was supposed to be on my way downtown to [...]

Motherfucking piece of fucked up useless shit. Hijo de la puta madre. I kick the tire. It doesn’t make me feel any better. How in the fuck is a $30,000+ German luxury car going to come with a jack that could hardly lift a plate of pasta.
I had been in such a good mood too.
I [...]

Or, “Killing the Ventriloquist, Part II.”
“Yeah, hi, I have a two part question. It seems like a lot of professors, specialists, and pundits are making the same arguments as you, but doing so on their weblogs. I was wondering if a.) you follow weblogs yourself and b.) you think there is a future in print [...]

He was having a difficult time reading them. The closest one was white, almost Opie looking. Vintage clothes, practically one of those scooter-riding hipsters, but without the holes in the jeans and the grease in the hair. He looked like he was about to fight back, but for the time was mostly quiet and attentive. [...]

Today, a picture:

Mei and I saw these two (obviously not from San Diego) kids while waiting for some soft serve at Balboa Park.
If you do not have a sibling, I highly recommend that you get one. They are great things to have in life.
I finally got all the CD’s sent out. The competition for craziest [...]

Leap second? Give me a leap year. Jesus god, I’ve been slowly checking off the to-do list one by one since 8 a.m. and I’m nowhere close to half way done. Stick-it notes, text files, my ical to-do list, the 70 messages in my inbox with all those little red flags.
So what do I do. [...]

This year’s catalog of pop is not available for download. The reason is that I would like to send real envelopes to real addresses with real handwriting, etc. etc. You know … how they did it in the 20th century.
Nick Hornby wrote so eloquently about the art of the mix tape in High Fidelity. I [...]