Deirdre Saoirse Moen, who’s running programming at BayCon, took up the Convention tagging idea and asks that you tag your convention related posts with:
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By extension, the Disclave and FanimeWest bloggers can follow our lead and tag their posts.
April 20, 2005 – 12:00 am
Great lines from Jon Carroll’s column today:
Jesuits are so cool. That’s the problem with being an agnostic: no Jesuits. …
Americans trust scientists to tell us what time it is, but a lot of them do not trust scientists to tell them how old the Earth is. Go figure.
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April 14, 2005 – 12:00 am
Last year Cyn and I went to Sunset Magazine’s annual home and garden expo to see the Glidehouse, a modernist modular home designed by architect Michelle Kaufmann (see photo.)
This year she’s demoing a new modular design, the Breezehouse, at the Sunset event. The new design has two prebuilt modules on either side of a breezeway [...]
More from the Potlatch Auction for Clarion West: a copy of Atlanta Nights, as seen on Making Light, went for $69. Insert obvious joke here.
I’m watching the Clarion Writers’ Workshop fundraising auction at Potlatch. In the lobby my friends Kevin and Cheryl are deep into an Interaction committee meeting with people on two continents via IRC on the hotel’s WiFi network.
Just a reminder that Potlatch 14 starts Friday evening at the Ramada Plaza Hotel on Market Street in San Francisco. The book of honor is Philip K. Dick’s A Scanner Darkly and I’ll be discussing film adaptations of PKD’s work with David Bratman, Ryder Miller, and Lori Selke on Sunday.
You can get a one day [...]
The Mavericks big wave contest was yesterday in Half Moon Bay. My friend Laura texted me an alert at 6 in the morning, but I couldn’t get away from the office. There are nice photos, however.
February 20, 2005 – 12:00 am
I don’t know classical music: I can’t tell Hayden from Mozart. The extent of my symphonic music collection is Glass and John Adams.
Fortunately, the Mercury News ran an article on local classical music bloggers today. My friend Lisa Hirch’s blog was mentioned, but they missed my friend David Bratman’s Live Journal, where he reviews local [...]
February 16, 2005 – 12:00 am
A friend gave me a bottle of the 2002 Morambro Creek Padthaway Shiraz on Boxing Day. I opened it for Valentine’s: lovely, fruity, and chocolately. Around $14/bottle. Get more of this.
Rio Adobe on DeAnza at Prospect. Better than the ‘upscale’ carry-out places like Chipolte and Baja Fresh. Yesterday they had green chile pork stew.
Coffee Society [...]
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February 9, 2005 – 12:00 am
Bill Lazar passed along an announcement for an event raising money for the areas hit by the Boxing Day, 2004 Earthquake and Tsunami.
The fundraiser, sponsored by Bay Area Unites, will be held at the HP Pavilion in San Jose on Sunday, February 20th from 2 to 5pm.
The speakers and performers include: Bill Clinton (via video), [...]
February 8, 2005 – 12:00 am
Inspired by Belatrys’ reading guide, I went to the used bookstore down the street from me to find a copy of Terry Pratchett’s Night Watch.
He’s popular. The store had a small number of his books, but there was a hard cover copy of Night Watch on the shelves.
I’m late to this whole Discworld business. Cynthia [...]
January 10, 2005 – 12:00 am
This Wednesday the 12th, the Ninth Street Independent Film Center in San Francisco presents a program on Storytelling and the Internet Age:
New Media
Non-Linear Expanded Cinema
Flash Animation
Interactivity
If you’re in the City for MacWorld Expo, looking for something to do Wednesday night, and you’re interested in where filmmaking may be headed, this might be worth your time.
January 3, 2005 – 12:00 am
I got an email from a parent of a kid at Stevens Creek Elementary, the public school in Cupertino to which the Fox News crowd likes to send death threats, as a follow-up to a post on the school back in December of 2004.
The message was that the parents have put together a site to [...]
December 12, 2004 – 12:00 am
We heard Lev read from his Comic/DVD Tales of Mere Existence last night at Writers with Drinks. Lev’s specialty is self-deprecation, but the best thing was the story of him decorating his hoopty 1987 Toyota as the “General Lee” from The Dukes of Hazard.
Comedy Central’s running some of his short movies this month, so if [...]
December 8, 2004 – 12:00 am
[ via The Sideshow ] I’d love to cut down on the politics, but this is in my backyard. You may have read a sob story claiming that the Cupertino School District banned the Declaration of Independence. It didn’t. What it did do was order a teacher to stop using a pile of biased and [...]
