Merry Xmas from the DR

(photo by Lee Baran) So SO much more to come. Best. Christmas. Ever.

how unusual

Too busy to post! To think the whole purpose of the blog was to chronicle my life, so that fifty years down the road I would be able to laugh and cheer and muaha. And there’s no time to chronicle. Stoopid success. What a fantastic year.

almost there

I just may have intertubes in My Place tomorrow! FiOS = 35/20mbps shapow. For a tiny little TV and punky little speakers with my lame little laptop. And not a single PS3 or Wii. I may or may not be playing quite freely with words here. Then I have hopes of doing some proper updating. [...]

She drips from the inside and I give thanks

She died well. And now we’re gonna eat her.

Adrian resides in the NYC

Deep (deep) in the heart of the Financial District, in a grand old lady called 20 Exchange Place, Adrian takes up residence this Friday. He becomes not just a couch surfer of, but resident of Manhattan. View Larger Map My place isn’t big. Bigger than my first place in Vancouver, though. And the building, as [...]

the quest

State of me: Safely, happily, joyfully divorced – check Social Security Number – check US Bank Account – check Place to live… not quite yet. The search for an apartment has been borderline epic. New York works like this, for those of you planning on moving here soon: rentals are listed with brokers. You can [...]

Between shots

welcome to myopia

When short-sighted committees are charged with drafting policy on policing copyright, specifically on the intertubes, we should not be at all surprised to read text like this. The long & short of it is: if you are even accused of infringement, you can be summarily booted from the web by your ISP. No investigation, no [...]

Net Neutrality – nutshelled

Jon Stewart breaks it down for y’all – what net neutrality means to you & me: via ComedyCentral, and the Canadian mirror at the ComedyNetwork. Watch and learn. It has kittens! And Hitler!

halloween in the village ’09

What might have been an impressive photographic foray into the heart of craziness of Halloween in the Village… got rained out. One does not take $3300 worth of camera out in the weather casually. So under the shelter of Lee’s umbrella (Suz was very kind to share) I snapped a bunch of frames at the [...]