I’ve been getting progressively more consumed with photography since my trip of 2001, where I took nearly one thousand, mostly terrible snapshots, with an Olympus Stylus Epic. Since then I’ve owned several digi-cams, 35mm cameras, including a Lomo, the Pentax K1000, and the medium format toy camera de-jour, the Holga. But I only recently learned […]

We can, and they will I suppose, argue all day about whether the Democrats calling for a private session was a “stunt,” but who really cares? As of this date, the US Senate Select Committee report on pre-war intelligence is technically incomplete. Phase one investigated the intelligence itself, reaffirming what we knew already, that it […]

It’s getting to be that time of year again, when people get a little fatter, a little drunker and buy a bunch of shit. Well, some people won’t stand for a society of programmed consumer zombies and plan to throw a wrench in the corporate works by programming those consumer zombies not to consume. Yes, […]

Return to Pepperland, which features short films based on
the Beatles album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
will be screening Friday, Saturday and Sunday, November
18, 19 and 20th at Push Push Theater.
More info at www.pushpushtheater.com

Doors open at 7:00.
The Licentious Five, have a cameo in the first film, entitled “With A Little Help From My Friends.” Look […]

I came across this post in the comp.lang.php newsgroup, just a moment ago. If only affairs of the heart could be solved by clever PHP programming, or with “mexican dudes as your backup singers.” Come to think of it…

There are some things I find annoyingly useless in this world. Ragweed allergies, roadblocks, and those food places where they yell “Welcome to So and So’s” when you walk through the door, top the list this week.
Ragweed allergies take top prize for having made my life very near unlivable at various times in October […]

Last week, during a chat with the landscaping crew working on my yard, a rednecky kid declared that he killed three snakes as they were clearing the kudzu. It was clearly a big deal, and he was very excited, in that low key way which emphasizes the gravity of both being confronted by, and […]

Chili rules in the winter. It keeps long, and serves you lunch every day for a week.
Here’s my special recipe for Man Under Stress “Sturm and Drang” Chili:
One or two can crushed tomatoes (or about 1 carton of the
two cans beans, maybe three. mix it up, pinto red black
1lb or so beef (or vegetable […]