I’ve never really been a smoker, but that isn’t to say that I’ve never smoked. The first time I was 16, sitting on the south-facing, rust-colored sandstone bluff in Del Mar that faces the San Diego River mouth and, beyond, Torrey Pines State Beach. Those who have watched a sunset from that perch, or one [...]

Booger and I are driving south. We are going to visit our grandmother and our mother. At the same time. That don’t happen too much. March first cherry blossoms are everywhere on both sides of the highway, a gradient of white to pink exploding beneath central California’s lethargic white-blue sky. The night before I tell [...]

One of the dozen or so employees at my neighborhood Peet’s coffee is blonde. He is the only blonde employee. Rarely do I see him working, but most mornings he sits outside on one of the two wooden benches and watches people cross the street in front of him. In his left hand is a [...]

The other day I got an email from someone I work with. It included the following clarification:

p.s.: the inch/foot comment was meant to have smiley at the end.
Like many who call their office their home and vise-versa, email is my main - pretty much my only - means of communication with my [...]

There was mention in today’s NYT of Jason Kidd, who, as it turns out, grew up only a couple miles from where I’m typing right now. The article says he’s been playing with cracked ribs for the past couple weeks and that, despite the injury, he might be traded to the Lakers before today’s 3 [...]

I finally succumbed to Abogado and Moreno’s bullying and started watching The Office (Uk version). There’s nothing worse than telling those two that they were right, but there you have it. So here’s my question - the theme song reminds me of some song by Phish. It’s on the god damned tip of my tongue. [...]

I recently got a new cell phone - the Sony Ericsson W810i. (Really, who comes up with the model numbers for these things? Why can’t it just be the Sony Ericsson 3?) It’s not sleek and sexy like the popular new phones - razr, krazr, masturbatr. But among OS X geeks, the phone has a [...]