Trying to stay creative while working 10 hour days and commuting two is proving rather difficult. I am accustomed to writing in the mornings (on various projects) and then working my yob, and then coming home at night and just chillin. But this gig I have right now (for a company I adore) is a [...]

Speaking of Street Art, there is a rad little trend here on the streets of San Fran, painting vent pipes to look like the hallucinogenic Amanita Muscaria mushrooms.

It’s actually a street phenomenon that may have been going on for many decades (?). The vent pipes that get painted are common to many buildings here, and [...]

The HeMan, the Voltron, the Thundercat, The Undisputed Ruler of Street Art has just released another vid. (Yay!)

BIG BANG BIG BOOM – the new wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.
Thanks John Heenan for the word up!

Juniper and I just saw CocoRosie play. If you are unfamiliar with the band, you should really look them up. They have one of the most distinct and balanced sounds I have know.
Here is a video of a live show on Queen’s Night in Amsterdam that they did in conjunction with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra:

I [...]

This weekend was Pride Fest in both San Francisco and New York. I had straight friends attending in New York, and my wife and I, as well as her grandparents, and our in-laws, attended the Pride Parade here.

If you have never been, you are either a homophobe (you should look into that) or you are [...]

OK, so the brain cancer thing is just a kooky conspiracy theory right?
The city of San Francisco just passed an ordinance that requires cell phone retailers to indicate the Specific Absorption Rate (SAR value)  on all phones sold in the city.
I know many people are rolling their eyes right now, thinking “What more could these [...]

Chartreuse, for those of you who have not had it, is a powerfully tasty French liqueur, old enough to have the color named after it.
But if you haven’t tried it in its present form, your chances are dwindling.
Chartreuse Diffusion, the company which bottles Chartreuse, announced in Wine Spectator recently that ownership of the centuries old [...]

Despite the lingering effects of food poisoning and a migraine, I am overcome by love and adoration on this, our second wedding anniversary. Two years ago today, in the Wyoming woods on the summer solstice, a vagabond punk like me was somehow lucky enough to marry this beautiful angel of compassion.

Juniper, I [...]

Good news for the developing world. If you can’t afford Fusion in the coming decades, how about Potato Powered Batteries!
From the creator’s press release:
“Cost analyses showed that the treated potato battery generates energy, which is five to 50 folds cheaper than commercially available 1.5 Volt D cells and Energizer E91 cells, respectively. [...]

Thanks Andie Olive for the hip tip about the EIZO 2010 Pin-up Girl Calendar

As mentioned, I saw Ed Moses, Associate Director of the National Ignition Facility speak last night. What he had to say gave me a much needed positive glimpse into our uncertain future.
NIF is the foremost fusion (clean) energy project in the world. They have been at it for more than a decade, and for the [...]

I went to the Long Now talk tonight by Ed Moses on fusion energy. It was tremendously exciting, and worthy of an entire post on it’s own (soon to come).
But prior to the talk was a great little plug for NewsTrust, which is a very keen news site that lets you review news items which [...]

I wrote previously on some very rich clients I have, and their hairless children.
Well, the story thickens.
In fact, it more than thickens. It congeals into a great big ball of super-weird.
As mentioned, I do some carpentry from time to time for some very well-to-do folks in San Francisco. The last time I worked for them [...]

I got a share of it on the Short Lived Trend post (especially considering the anonymous rags I didn’t approve).
Long and short: People love these cups! Admittedly they are a fun design, and apparently they work well too.
So thanks for the feedback, dear readers. May you keep me a little longer, in your gentle way, [...]

I was in Walgreens yesterday and I snapped this shot of some eco-cups that YOU TOO can GREAT BUY!
You may have seen them. They are non-disposable replicas of disposable cups. Save a cup and save the planet!
But wait a minute. Haven’t non-disposable cups been around for decades? Oh, well, not ones that look like disposable [...]

We went to Audium this weekend and had our day dreams blown open.

Audium is an immersive aural experience perpetrated by composer, conductor, Stan Shaff. Since the late 60s, Mr. Shaff has been performing intricate musical movements to his audience in pitch darkness within a theater designed specifically for the compositions.
The theater that we went to [...]

In The Dust Zone: Part Three, is currently serialized on Exquisite Corpse.
It is a beautiful collaboration of prose and picture.
“In August of 2001, New York City writer Maggie Dubris was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. Three weeks later, on September 11th, she responded as a 911 paramedic to the World Trade Center attack. In [...]

There is some rad street art going on in Emeryville.  Its actually been slowly growing in scope for over a year, at least. Someone is putting freakin cool vinyl stickers up on the traffic control boxes:

There are dozens of them, each completely different, each completely interesting. The strange thing is that the city seems to [...]

As I posted, we had a party last weekend. One thing I didn’t get to write about was a neat accidental experiment that took place having to do with the phenomenon of people gathering in the kitchen during a party.
Many of us have wondered about this. Doing a brief search online I found few theories. [...]

We threw a party for Juniper’s birthday on Saturday. I am happy to report that the soiree was a success. We pulled a few dozen stunningly dressed heads through our doors and into our labyrinth of live music and martinis.  I tended bar, serving up a selection of Ethersmithy drinks, including one smash hit, The [...]