I haven't traveled to all the states, but I've been to most of them. And while there is a lot of variety among people in different places, you can tell that there is something of a local personality. You may not notice it when you live there, but it really stands out when you travel through. For exa...

Saturday night was a perfect date.  The boy and I ate gyros and then went to the bookstore after.  And I had a gift certificate left over from Christmas.  So I got to do some shopping!  I purchased five books - Dance Dance Dance and Kafka on the Shore - both by Haruki Muraka...

A boffin? I learn a new word from Clive Davis, who noticed this post of mine promoting the iPhone app RjDj. Clive is not ready to abandon the natural ambient sound of the real world. Yesterday, I made a video clip -- intending to overlay the video with the soundtrack I was hearing as I spoke. But I ...

"You can be the world's biggest hypocrite and still feel good about yourself," begins Frank Schaeffer in his memoir Crazy for God ....

Is Walmart channeling Kurt Vonnegut? When Walmart unveiled its new logo last week, there was only one thing we thought of when we saw that logo. Anyone who's read "Breakfast of Champions" remembers that Vonnegut peppered his writing with illustrations, one of which was a drawing of his own asshole: ...

If you’ve been to Wal-Mart’s website lately (because, um… well, you might have!), you may have noticed a brand spanking new logo. Instead of a patriotic blue star, the logo is now adorned with a little yellow asterisk that bears some resemblance to… well, we’ll let Kurt...

...Which would you rather have, a good read, or a good shit? A Southern Summer Man, the heat waves were rising off the pavement today. They made Englewood Street look like a black desert highway as I road my bike back from the coffeeshop this morning. I loved it. All our fears over the 'hot and humi...

Why Not See The Dog As Good... Trying to shed the cynicism, anger and negativity. They seem to color my point of view on everything. Think if I had taken the positive approach on... ...The movies – “ There Will Be Blood was a Daniel Day Lewis jack-off fest with little story…�. But I could ha...

At the North Bridge in Concord, Massachusetts, where the 'shot heard around the world' was fired, my friend Bob mentioned I could use a giant pipe-cleaning. “From end to end. You’re hacking, wheezing. Coughing, dripping…� In return, I told him he looked great. Happy, healthy, fit, with a goo...

I finished Slaughterhouse-Five today on my way across Jerusalem. One of the most finger-pointing themes of the book - relevant to me these days - is expressed in the following lines, by character Howard W. Campbell Jr., as he describes American prisoners of war compared to others. “[Americans...