Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder
Will update Spam As Folk Art with reader submissions soon, really. Today I can't even compliment myself with the epithet of hack. Maybe tomorrow.
Over the past three days, I met The Poor Man and The Claw, and got a free "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" mug as a "thanks for taking pledge calls" raffle prize from KQED. Also, …
A little joke. Anyway, Slate covers India's elections so I don't have to watch Namaste America and blink through the Hindi.
My mother taught me frugality in buying shoes -- twenty dollars per pair, tops. However, yesterday I paid fifty dollars for a pair of black flats (work/comedy shoes). I required more than one reassurance from …
Friday and Saturday had comedy stuff. Evidently people do not know who Robert Rubin is. Also, evidently there are unfunny male comics who will awkwardly try to pick up any given non-white-haired woman, regardless of …
I'm doing stand-up again. SAGE, a nice-sounding UC Berkeley mentorship program, asked me to do a $50/head fundraiser on the 26th, so between now and then I'm hitting area open mics (info may be out-of-date). …
This morning I volunteered to take pledge calls for KQED-FM. Let me say that when you ask for public radio listeners who are willing to come into the Mission District at 6:30am to take pledge …
Preparing for a trip to Japan? "After your bath put on your "yukata" robe which you can wear throughout the ryokan. Put it on left-over-right (unless you are dead)." "DO NOT PLACE YOUR CHOPSICKS STRAIGHT …
Drinking "hoji-cha," a toasted green tea that a coworker gave me. The tea smells like some interesting intermediate of black and green tea, and he wasn't lying about the fuller flavor. I can really taste …
Berkeley Repertory will host Mike Daisey this summer for performances of 21 Dog Years: Doing Time @ Amazon.com! I wonder whether the performance will live up to the book derived from the performance.