I came down with some sort of flu and stayed home from work on Friday. By Friday night, all I could stand to eat were crackers and N. bought me some Saltines. IT HAS BEEN A WHILE MY FRIEND.
Nothing can bring N. to a boil more than when we are having a conversation on the street and a single gear bike rides by. The vast focus of attention that the bike demands of me forces me to become agitated and distant. Do I want a bike that seems terrifying to ride?
You can’t coast. [...]
Like I was saying: I was cleaning out the front closet, and I came across old letters and journals. Sometimes I get burdened by the process of remembering, and often I sweeten the past with this amazing tone that didn’t exist at the time.
One journal chronicled my overly dramatic yet simple and uneventful life during [...]
I was worried that my beloved but underused “photo” printer had passed its prime. That’s where the cleverly named company fixyourownprinter.com came to my rescue. $15 dollars later and my print heads were flushed and cleaned. No banding!
I am whole again.
Across from the Bank of America Building, on California Street, stands my favorite creepy skyscraper known as “The 580 California.”
I used to work at Ernst and Young, in the BOA building—AT EYE LEVEL WITH THE STATUES— and every night they would be lit from below. Very startling, ver high drama. The statues would call to [...]
This weekend I really wanted to find my MiniDisc player so I could digitize a Spineless show from Bard and a Don Cab show from 1999 where they rocked Bottom of the Hill one day in October. There is only one place where a piece of electronics like that could be kept: the front closet.
I [...]
I came across this tutorial on the excellent recedinghairline site (no relation). And then last month, Mr. Kottke wrote the epic: “Olivo Barbieri’s aerial photographs [subscription] taken with a tilt-shift lens spawned some amazing Photoshopped fakes on Flickr.”
Those articles, combined with my location of the 21st floor during the day, brought me no shortage of [...]