From the monthly archives:

May 2009

Boyz from the hood

05.31.2009

This was a trip. Last night Steve picked me up to join a bunch of peeps from town all syncing up to hit the Lighthouse on Pier Avenue in Hermosa. Among them were John Cozza, Bernie Perry, and Richard Iacono; we all spent some of our childhood years on the same street — the 800 [...]

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Halftime basement beer run

05.29.2009

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The Future of the Web

05.29.2009

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Check out the developer preview at Google I/O
Google Wave is a new tool for communication and collaboration on the web, coming later this year. Watch the demo video below, sign up for updates and learn more about how to develop with Google Wave.

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Why Time Travel Would Destroy the Universe

05.28.2009

From Orion’s Arm, Why Time Travel Would Destroy the Universe.
(Hypothesis #4): The Radical Rewrite conjecture; in this scenario you can change your own history, which means the whole of time is mutable and can be shaped to one’s own whim. If there is only one universe, history becomes fluid. You might go back and change [...]

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The Jazz Bathroom

05.27.2009

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Stepping into the Jazz Bathroom at a neighbor’s house for the first time, just off the game room.

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Hurt ‘em so good

05.26.2009

“Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.”
– Alfred Hitchcock

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K-9 Command Cemetery Re-dedication

05.25.2009

Fort MacArthur, San Pedro, Los Angeles, CA, USA, 05.23.2009. On the Saturday of this Memorial Day Weekend, the newly restored K-9 Command Cemetery held its re-dedication ceremony in front of a crowd not limited to two-legged creatures.

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Memorial Embers

05.25.2009

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Embers of our bonfire finding flame down the stretch in the wee hours. 05.25.2009

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Vive watching the zep

05.23.2009

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Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?

05.23.2009

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“Our education system has mined our minds the way we have strip-mined our earth for a particular commodity. And for the future, it won’t service. We have to re-think the fundamental principles on which we are educating our children.”
– Sir Ken Robinson

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Running for Beer

05.22.2009

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Thursday, 05.21.09, White Point Preserve in San Pedro, CA, sunset. Seen in this video are the first few of what ended up being about sixty people on some sort of treasure hunt footrace, following a trail of flour dropped by a leader, hoping to [...]

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Under Angels: Chapter K

05.21.2009

Under Angels
by Jace D. Albao (b. 1969)
KABOOM!!! February 25th, 1942, 03:16 AM. Our kitchen windows shook in the dark as anti-aircraft guns shot 12.8-pound rounds into the winter sky, blackout sirens blaring throughout the city. I wasn’t even an hour old, and Los Angeles was already being attacked.

KABOOM!!! KABOOM!!! KABOOM!!!–
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With Mrs. Carroll

05.20.2009

Quasi-sister-in-law. La Quinta Resort, 05.03.2009.

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Video Confessional Jams: Episode 101

05.19.2009

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“I’m a Viking, so a shirt with wolves was a perfect match for me.”

05.19.2009

This may quite possibly be Web 2.0 at its finest. Go check out this obviously fantastic product on Amazon, a Three Wolf Moon T-Shirt, and read the reviews. It’s the gift that keeps on giving. I AM CRYING OVER HERE.
5.0 out of 5 stars
The Perfect Accessory, May 5, 2009
By Wesley C. Hatfield (Great Falls, Montana)
The [...]

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Watchers plus one

05.19.2009

ON HIS THIRTY-SIXTH birthday, May 18, Travis Cornell rose at five o’clock in the morning. – Watchers
In a sort of lucid deja vu, I woke up early this morning with the above line in my head. It’s the first sentence in Watchers, a novel by Dean Koontz that I read and wrote about last summer. [...]

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