19 Apr 2003, 12:47 p.m.

Intellectual Time Waster

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 …

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19 Apr 2003, 10:50 a.m.

Articles about St. Petersburg in the New York Times (on…

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.

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18 Apr 2003, 17:45 p.m.

Cody's Events in May include Douglas Rushkoff criticizing modern Judaism…

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, …

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17 Apr 2003, 22:04 p.m.

When should I leave the US? Zack suggests: "I…

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 …

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17 Apr 2003, 21:12 p.m.

Publicity Shock

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 …

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17 Apr 2003, 16:15 p.m.

Gideon informs me that Wyoming's largest town, Casper, holds only…

Gideon informs me that Wyoming's largest town, Casper, holds only about 500,000 people. Practically a friendly ghost town.

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16 Apr 2003, 18:04 p.m.

Sumana Comedy Alert Level: Banana Peel Yellow

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 …

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16 Apr 2003, 8:24 a.m.

Just last week someone called up my programmer flatmate and…

Just last week someone called up my programmer flatmate and offered him another job, as though it's 1997 or something.

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15 Apr 2003, 8:45 a.m.

Leonard on being a Salon Premium support tech: "You'd…

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."

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14 Apr 2003, 10:24 a.m.

I think lawyers claim Gandhi like Republicans claim Lincoln. …

I think lawyers claim Gandhi like Republicans claim Lincoln.

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