I only appreciate good editors when I run into an edit that makes my work worse.

Years ago, when I worked at Cody's Books, I got to introduce Bruce Sterling. I got a giant cardboard blowup of his book cover, and I've never quite figured out where to put it. Last …

As Jon Carroll has noted, book reviews can spoil you in another way: The review is so wonderful I am almost afraid to read the book; more than once, particularly with the New York Review …

I'm listening to Dar Williams, "What Do You Hear In These Sounds," and I see Jon Carroll: It's the making, I think. The making is the important part. If you are lucky enough to be …

Last night I ran the merchandise table at a Heather Gold show. Those "One Smart Cookie" shirts are really nice. I keep forgetting that there are people who actually take astrology seriously. These are the …

Yeah, I'm not the only one who found Bill Nye powerfully attractive. Maybe it's best for me that KQED is not airing Nye's new show.

Kenny Byerly is blogging intelligently about the sitcoms of the new TV season. Yes, it's for laughs, but if you continually go for easy laughs at the expense of the show's reality, eventually the whole …

Evidently Leonard and I pop up rather soon if you use Google to look for information on ImaginAsian's TV show "Uncle Morty's Dub Shack," whose second season premieres on Oct. 14. I just remembered why …

I covered the Sangeet Awards for the Oakland Tribune and ANG Newspaper Group. In truth, the show was a concert, a sequel to the 2002 Heartthrobs tour (starring Bollywood's up-and-coming star Hrithik Roshan) and the …

So my friend Angel and I will be leaving the SF Bay Area for Washington, DC on October 25th and returning from New York on Halloween. We haven't yet decided which day we'll go to …