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2015 / Oct / 18
No Talking Tuesday # 225
- posted in Cinema, No Talking Tuesdays
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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

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2015 / Oct / 18
No Talking Tuesday # 230
- posted in Cinema, No Talking Tuesdays
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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

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2015 / Oct / 18
Gay Pickup
- posted in Art
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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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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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Sketches
- posted in Art, Music, photography, Writing
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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
- posted in Cinema, No Talking Tuesdays
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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
- posted in Cinema, No Talking Tuesdays
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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

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2015 / Oct / 18
Street Fighter 2010 (NES) – Beat!
- posted in Video Games
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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 / Oct / 18
Lion King (Genesis) – Beat!
- posted in Video Games
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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
- posted in Art
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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
- posted in Art, Writing
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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

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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
- posted in Art, Writing
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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
- posted in Writing
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June 28, 2011

The Ugliness of Effort…

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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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Sep

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2015 / Sep / 13
100,000 Songs
- posted in Music
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May 14, 2011

I recently logged my 100,000th song with last.fm,
which has been tracking my music listening since I signed up with the service a few years ago.
(To see what it looked like at 50,000 click here)…

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Sep

2015

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2015 / Sep / 13
Trish Keenan R.I.P
- posted in Music
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January 14, 2011

Lead singer Trish Keenan of Broadcast, died today.
One of the best, and certainly my favorite contemporary rock band….

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