Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder
My birthday came and went, and only afterwards did I think to be thankful that I've gotten to live another year.
Students at the University of California at Berkeley have long known that Wurster Hall -- the architecture building! -- is astoundingly ugly. Sure, we idly debate the demerits of Wurster vis-à-vis Evans and Barrows, but …
Today my sister took me to a terrific restaurant at Dwight and San Pablo. Tallulah is like Venus was a few years ago, before people discovered it and it got busy and the preparation got …
Coming soon: reviews of The Seven Samurai, a repeat viewing of O Brother, Where Art Thou?, and the book The Best of Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine.
People have different song-related reactions to this book, entitled The World is a Ghetto. Leonard thinks of "The world is a rainbow / With many kinds of people." I myself am reminded of that Smashing …
I fought with a hidebound and reactionary haircutter yesterday to get the (quite short) haircut I wanted. I fear that she took her revenge on me by making one side longer than the other and …
Excerpt from No More Dead Dogs -- page five -- that sold me on reading the whole book:[Our hero hated a book that his English teacher forced the class to read. Our hero said so, …
I just heard The Cure for the first time earlier today. Neat! Like Belle and Sebastian meets Ben Folds with a dash of TMBG, I say, trying to analogize to the five musicians that I …
Thanks to Danny O'Brien's advice, I'm currently reading "Lobsters" by Charlie Stross. A huge chunk of minireviews is coming up shortly. Today, for the first time, I dealt with a customer who really got on …
Scott McCloud is bashworthy enough for everyone! Also, Seth is eloquently and entertainingly unhappy with Dave Winer, and Andy articulately shares a sensation that many of us have shared. Sometimes it does feel as though …