Kris liked the thriller One Hour Photo. I avoided it because I heard negative reviews, and also because I indulge in the "why should Robin Williams get several chances to play serious roles?" carping. But …
While researching books for a customer, I discovered that the University of Chicago Press posts tons of fascinating excerpts. Behind the scenes at talk shows, why hundreds of Chicagoans died in the 1995 heat wave …
Articles about St. Petersburg in the New York Times (on special events and places to eat) warm my nostalgic heart. I've eaten at the Idiot! Also, I think, at the Literary Cafe.
Cody's Events in May include Douglas Rushkoff criticizing modern Judaism (including the creation of the state of Israel), Eric Schlosser on the black market, Carroll Spinney (the spirit of Big Bird), Huston Smith on Buddhism, …
When should I leave the US? Zack suggests: "I think my personal last straw will be the outcome of the 2004 elections, and in particular whether there will be reason to believe that they are …
Hal stopped by the store today expressly and solely to tell me that PSP people are advertising my show on Sproul Plaza. He showed me a quarter-page yellow flyer for Free Comedy, with my name …
Gideon informs me that Wyoming's largest town, Casper, holds only about 500,000 people. Practically a friendly ghost town.
This coming Tuesday, April 22nd, I get to perform comedy FOR MONEY! I'll be doing somewhere between 10 and 20 minutes of material for a Pi Sigma Phi fundraising night on the Berkeley campus. (I'd …
Just last week someone called up my programmer flatmate and offered him another job, as though it's 1997 or something.
Leonard on being a Salon Premium support tech: "You'd be like a telemarketer, only people would call you. You'd be working in Soviet Russia."
