I'd ben preparing for this showcase night in spurts for days and days, and then I was frantically memorizing a sequence of bits. And then the emcee discombobulated me by interacting with my companion, who …
Johnnie Mac's newest tome, Authentically Black: Essays for the Black Silent Majority, has arrived at Cody's Books. I've been skimming it and it looks good. The cover photo is silly, but what are you gonna …
I finally got back to the Sally Lockhart trilogy. I finished Shadow in the North in about two days. Now I'm on Tiger in the Well. Who besides Pullman and Card writes such non-trashy pageturners? …
So I stood in the shower and tried to remember my dream from last night. "None!" I thought. "My bout of vivid strange dreams has ended! Hooray!" But then I visited my homepage and remembered …
I would actually watch Mr. Sterling, a new NBC drama best described as The West Wing on Capitol Hill, were it to star Bruce Sterling. A few nights ago I met, conversed with, and listened …
Tonight I did not-too-badly at The Brain Wash, that laundromat performance venue restaurant in SF. I'd never been, but Joe fully acted as my text adventure help/hints screen. "The man over there runs comedy classes …
Ever since I spent five days selling psychology textbooks from a small room, I've been having vivid and usually bad dreams. I'm thinking a worker's compensation suit. I mean, post hoc, right?
"dating a gamer"
I'm steadily developing new material for tomorrow's A Cuppa Tea open mic, my "showcase" performance (up to ten whole minutes!) for A Cuppa Tea next Tuesday, and of course for the Apollo Amateur Night on …
I worked overtime five hours a day selling textbooks from a small windowless office, but now it's back to my regularly scheduled schedule. My various nighttime activities proved reenergizing rather than ultra-exhausting. Coming soon: I …
