I’m glad to see the last of this year. It has not been awesome for me, mostly. Hopefully 2009 will be better — for me, and you, and everybody. (If your year was awesome, well — 2009 will be awesomer.) I’m really sad today, but I’m hopeful that I can be a better human and […]
Monthly Archives: December 2008
Chinese food in America
Great TED talk from Jennifer 8. Lee on the history and pervasiveness of Chinese food in America.
"Dark Miracle" in Coilhouse Issue 2!
I thought y’all would like to know that my Trinity piece, “Dark Miracle“, is actually seeing print, in Issue #2 of the fabulous magazine Coilhouse, available now! I haven’t gotten my contributor’s copy yet, but the little bits of proofing I’ve seen make it look awesome. So if you like the piece, order the magazine […]
Cyberpunk in 1996
and, via David Pescovitz over at BoingBoing, here’s a Bay Area TV show called “Net Cafe” episode featuring my friends St. Jude and R.U. Sirius. I was probably already hanging around at this point. It’s nice to see Jude, who died a few years ago. I miss her. And yes, this is all very quaint […]
And One Last Thought For Christmas…
“She’s gonna try and hug us, oh God she’s gonna try and hug us, goddamn Chinese people always try and hug us, Steve get ready, oh God, here it comes…” Merry X-mas. [adorable goddamn pandas via Fuck You, Penguin]
Merry Dies Natalis Solis Invicti To All!
And I’m off to the parents’ house for sugar comas and Christmas movies — it has become a tradition in my family to round up all our friends who don’t have family in town and aren’t going home for the holidays to come over, eat a bunch of food and watch a couple of contemporary […]
The Thought That Keeps Me Awake At Night…
…is that 100,000 years from now, when aliens discover the scattered remnants of what’s left of the human species, the dialogue’s going to go something like this. “Hey, Zerplax!” “Yes, Kiplorg?” “Check out this video the humans left.” “Okay, what am I…okay, there’s two girls, and…what are they eating?” “Just keep watching.”
Shopping Is A Feeling
This is a clip from the 1986 film True Stories, which was filmed in my hometown. This is the Golden Triangle Mall in Denton, Texas, which was “my” mall as a child. I love watching this, ’cause it reminds me of childhood.
Divine Intervention
No, not for me. It’s a song of mine — one none of you have heard, since I’ve never recorded it and never played it live. Aaron Archer came over and laid down some sick guitar parts for this track. It’s a Bloc Party-kinda thing — all staccato uptempo dance-punk dub sound. He put a […]
Toe Oranges
My little sister, Kaydence, has discovered that mandarin oranges are far more fun to eat if you do it with your TOES. (Kaydence is my adopted little sister. It’s a long story.)