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I read The San Francisco Gate every morning as part of my my get-ready-to-work ritual, mostly, I admit, for Jon Carroll's fine column, which teaches that wit and grace mean that you don't actually have to have anything to write about (but when he does have something to write about, it's always a corker). Now I've added the link below, which traces the adventures of reporters Lance Williams and Mark Fainaru-Wada, who had the audacity to break the BALCO juicing scandal.
Big Rock Candy Mountain ruminates on the immigration issue and posts MP3 files of Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land" and Billy Bragg's "Waiting For the Great Leap Forward." What a perfect post: Passion, good writin', and great polemics.
You go, BRCM!
Well, Elizabeth is off to Italy. Ciao, bella!
In her absence, we're making as much sense as a bag of hammers. Clifton's letting loose tears of poesy, Buddha's revealing the mysteries of the JA–Vinci Code while "being played" by both Keira Knightley and Scarlett Johansson, and I'm pee–ing pure gold.
Ah, sweet life. I love you, love.
Over in MPS land, we've posted three new remixes of classic tracks originally recorded by Antonio Valenti of Hinchkraft Studios. These little darlings are so darn old, I don't even remember recording them. That doesn't say…
Fifty percent of you don't know what that headline is about; the rest of you know I'm talking about the results of eating asparagus.
Wired has published key documents from the EFF's lawsuit against ATT&T for allegedly cooperating with the NSA'S domestic surveillance program. Former AT&T tech Mark Klein, who outed these documents, also offers his commentary.
We've said it before, but Bob Speer says it well—and do go to the links at the end of the article.
Here's an interesting article about porn as a technical innovator, which is something I've been fascinated by for years—no, I don't mean porn, which seems to confuse almost everything I actually enjoy about sex with simple hydraulics. What I find interesting is that every innovation that Hollywood and the record labels decried as the end of the world was actually embraced by and made mainstream by porn. Video cassettes took movies, dirty and otherwise, out of crappy theaters and into our homes; DVDs improved the audio and video quality of the product, while mainstreaming owning the product;…
Often when I think I have nothing to write about, I remember. I remember. I remember JA commenting on one of my entries:
"It's amazing how you can write 300 words about nothing, and make it seem important."
"It's amazing how you can write 300 words about nothing, and make it seem important."
I don't think he really used the word "amazing," but it was something like that.
I remember when.
I remember. I remember when I lost my mind.
Sometimes I think I'm crazy. I really do. But I tell myself:
Crazy people don't think they're crazy. Relax, fool.
Maybe it would be better if I didn't call myself names.
Has it been 300…