Last week, I read this Chronicle article about the growing popularity of mashups,where DJs take different songs and meld them together. I’ve listened to the Sixx Mixx when I happen to be in the car, and I like it a lot. I may be looking for more places to download such stuff, besides Party Ben’s […]
Haydn’s Harmoniemesse
I’ll get to the Latour tomorrow I think. But it was time to update the chorus page with the latest concert reviews, as well as funny stories from this week’s concert of Haydn’s Harmoniemesse.
Crime pays, or why people suck
Two days ago, a woman was mugged at 6pm about 50 yards from my front door. My friend and I were walking up the hill from dinner when we heard a commotion up ahead – about half a block up, two black men ran across the street and jumped in a car, chased by a […]
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
When I first heard that they were making a movie out of the HitchHiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, I was horrified. I loved those books. It would not be an exaggeration to say I worshipped them. I had most of the books memorized almost close to verbatim in high school, and could quote chapter and […]
Mercedes sucks more
Update on the car: Mercedes sucks more. They called me a couple days after I brought the car in and said that they were refusing my demand that I get my money back under the lemon law. Corporate headquarters refused to pay up without knowing what was wrong with the car. Of course, if they […]
Being all I can be, whatever that may be
Question of the day – where’s the balance between accepting who you are and pursuing paths that leverage that identity, and striving to be a different person? I was writing email to a friend last night and made the claim that a lack of self-acceptance drives American culture, from our dieting crazes to our willingness […]
Quick hits
I think that in my quest to improve at developing ideas, editing myself, etc., I have psyched myself out of blogging. So I’m going to go back to basics, and start posting shorter less-well-thought-out posts for a bit, just to get the juices flowing again. As far as the car, I went in and talked […]
Mercedes sucks
As some of you know, I bought myself a Mercedes SLK230 a year and a half ago, a completely impractical obnoxious two-seater hardtop convertible. But I figured, what the heck, I was young and single and male, and when would it be more appropriate for me to have such a car than now. And, damn, […]
Killer cars and giving notice
No posts in a while. Been distracted by life. On Monday morning, my car tried to kill me. Again. Coming out of the Bay Bridge metering lights into the big merge, where it squeezes from 13 lanes down to 5 lanes in a couple hundred yards, and people are accelerating like mad, trying to cut […]
I bought art!
While I was in New York, I put in a relatively low bid on a piece of art up for auction at a SoHo gallery, as mentioned at the end of this post. I was a bit surprised when, at the end of the month, the gallery called me and told me that my bid […]
