I am almost embarrassed to say that I just finished Tim Ferriss’ Four Hour Workweek, but we practice full disclosure and openness here in California. It’s not exactly the sort of book appropriate for me, for I am one of the few people that could benefit from a 40-hour workweek. But, being the slacker that …
Last year I put up a video of me playing ‘So Many Roads,’ the Hunter/Garcia song that came along in one of their last creative spurts before Jerry Garcia died. The folks over at Dead.net are doing the thing again this year, so I had to put up another tune. I chose ‘Ship of Fools’ …
A train of thought is never more fascinating than when you are heading down the tracks of one. A while ago, my wife reminded me that she had thrown away my tape collection. It was a series of large wooden racks, filled with cassette tapes of Grateful Dead shows from 1968 to 1991. I had …
I sit in Starbucks and I am already a cliché, like every aspiring screenwriter, every dwid without a job who has to get out of the house or they will decay to the humming of Days of Our Lives. You know, the sullied underclass hoping to touch the stars just like every douchebag in America. …
I have been reluctant for some reason to write about being a father. Can’t say why, really. I think it is because I fear it becoming the only thing that identifies me, and my ambition was never to be a guy who writes about fatherhood. It felt so private, like something I had to keep …
I was turned onto Neal Stephenson a few years ago when there were still bookstores around where you could purchase books made of paper right there on the spot. An emo salesgirl recommended that I check out Cryptonomicon. It is still one of the best books I can remember reading, and I have been a …
If you missed Jazzy Redd’s classic, I Am A Dope Fiend, perhaps all of what follows will have less impact, but I doubt it. I just think Jazzy Redd was way before his time—you know, because rap and hip hop is all so new. It was introduced to me while under heavy sedation at a …
A filter bubble. Another term I am still not sure if I have the space in my brain to store, or more simply the desire to do so. I mean I have other things more pressing, like who will be on Cee Lo’s team this season on The Voice, or what to do with the …