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2015 / Oct / 18
No Talking Tuesday # 233
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March 13, 2012

This Tuesday found me back in the screening room at work for another movie night. This time we watched The Mill and the Cross, and Chimes at Midnight….

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2015

18

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No Talking Tuesday # 227
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January 31, 2012

This Tuesday found me back in the screening room at work watching the Criterion blu-ray of White Material….

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2015

18

2015 / Oct / 18
No Talking Tuesday # 225
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January 17, 2012

This Tuesday found me back in the screening room at work watching the blue-ray edition of Jacky Brown….

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Oct

2015

18

2015 / Oct / 18
No Talking Tuesday # 230
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February 21, 2012

This Tuesday found me back in the screening room at work watching Alan Parker’s Midnight Express. …

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2015

18

2015 / Oct / 18
Gay Pickup
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January 03, 2012

A few months ago, while on lunch break, I was walking to a small park to eat lunch….

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Oct

2015

18

2015 / Oct / 18
No Talking Tuesday Year End Wrap Up End of Year Four
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November 15, 2011

Impressions of year four:
The fourth year of my no talking Tuesdays has come and gone with little to say for itself. Continuing the trends of year three, I hardly ever write to communicate, and have become further entrenched in my comfort with staying silent and observing….

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2015 / Oct / 18
Sketches
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May 05, 2011

Iwant to keep my skills sharp in the mediums I have a bad habit of neglecting. So here are a handful of sketches done with video, sculpture, writing, music etc. It’s fun to shake things up every now and again. …

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Oct

2015

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2015 / Oct / 18
No Talking Tuesday # 218
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December 12, 2011

This Tuesday found me at yet another movie night at work. This time with a double feature by two foreign directors. The first was the Iranian film Close-Up (نمای نزدیک), by director Abbas Kiarostami. The second was Yi Yi (二) by Taiwanese director Edward Yang….

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Oct

2015

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2015 / Oct / 18
No Talking Tuesday # 217
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This Tuesday found me back in the screening room at work watching the Critereon blue-ray editions of Kurosawa’s Yojimbo and Sanjuro….

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Oct

2015

18

2015 / Oct / 18
No Talking Tuesday # 216
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December 07, 2011

This Tuesday found me alone at the screening room at work watching the blue ray of Dark Crystal. The classic Jim Henson film about a dualistic fantastical planet,…

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Oct

2015

18

2015 / Oct / 18
Street Fighter 2010 (NES) – Beat!
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November 11, 2011

In my ongoing effort to beat all the classic console games that bested me in my youth, I’ve conquered Street Fighter 2010 for Nintendo….

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2015

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2015 / Oct / 18
Lion King (Genesis) – Beat!
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November 07, 2011

I finally beat Lion King for Sega Genesis! I’ve decided to go back with my more powerful adult brain and beat the games from my childhood I never finished….

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2015

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2015 / Oct / 18
Six Month Stickies # 7
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May 31, 2011

As usual the tracks of music that got stuck in my head in the last six months, in order.
* Click image to download a ZIP of the compilation:…

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Oct

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2015 / Oct / 14
Bruce Lee Quote
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March 06, 2011

Bruce had me up to three miles a day, really at a good pace. We’d run the three miles in twenty-one or twenty-two minutes. Just under eight minutes a mile [Note: when running on his own in 1968, Lee would get his time down to six-and-a-half minutes per mile]….

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Oct

2015

04

2015 / Oct / 04
Missed Connection
- posted in Art, Lady Drama
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September 27, 2011

I was on BART the other day (name of the bay area subway system), when I saw a young woman who looked familiar sitting across from me. I suspected I was wrong and didn’t give it another thought- Well maybe one or two more, about her attractive nerdyness….

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Sep

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2015 / Sep / 29
Dear Class
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September 8, 2011

I‘ve developed a reputation at school for being a demanding teacher who expects too much and grades too harshly. I had a particularly lazy class a couple semesters back, and gave them a good tongue lashing via email….

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Sep

2015

28

2015 / Sep / 28
Open Letter to Heather Phares
- posted in Art, Music, Writing
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March 13, 2011

A little while back I made a resolution to contact my favorite artists and give thanks. I started with this letter to Heather Phares….

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2015 / Sep / 26
Weird Dream
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May 27, 2011

I had a weird dream and shared it with my friend Jaimie.

me:
last night I had a dream that Samuel L Jackson and I were crying to a Nora Jones song.
So I woke up and was like “whoa, I guess I better listen to that song…”…

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Sep

2015

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2015 / Sep / 26
The Ugliness of Effort
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June 28, 2011

The Ugliness of Effort…

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Sep

2015

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2015 / Sep / 22
Humility Dreaming
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June 01, 2011

Last night I had a powerful dream. …

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