Monthly Archives: November 2009

Sorry about the space between this and the last entry. Me and my food frakking deputy, Julia, have been up in Chicago doing the family Thanksgiving thing. In the frakker family we celebrate every Thanksgiving with a ritualized hunting of … Continue reading →

Not to ruin the spell of the previous post, but I was just incorporated into a rap and I need to talk about it. There I was, biking down by campus, doing some errands. I pass by this SUV parked … Continue reading →

Yesterday, my deputy food frakker, Julia, and I rode our bikes around East Austin, participating in the East Austin Studio Tour. Now, I wouldn’t mitigate the art-enjoyment experience by taking pictures of people’s actual artwork and posting them on my … Continue reading →

Look! It’s a blonde! Okay, maybe it’s not that exciting.

As someone who is a fan of both Thomas Pynchon and Buckaroo Banzai (who have never been photographed together by the way – think about it), I of course am familiar with the Yoyodyne family of companies. I took the … Continue reading →

Julia and I went out to catch the Leonid meteor shower. After a lifetime of hard-won experience, I have learned that meteor showers are never as exciting as the hype. If they say "there may be 300 meteors an hour", … Continue reading →

At some point when I wasn’t looking, riding bicycles went beyond a stiff-nosed vaguely political and eco-conscious activity and became a phenomenon. Austin has a fairly sophisticated community of social bikers that use facebook groups and blog announcements to organize … Continue reading →

If you’ve read any of Derek J. Goodman’s stories, you will no doubt greet the announcement of his new novel set in the Apocalypse Shift with squeals of glee. I know I did. I had the pleasure of reading it … Continue reading →

I’ve always thought of this blog as being essentially visual. After all, who wants to waste brain power reading when you can just look at pictures? So I’m sorry that there hasn’t been much visual content for a while. But … Continue reading →

I’ve been more or less offline for a few days. The tablet PC stopped turning on, and while I was waiting for the new motherboard to show up, the backup Dell (the one that Klaw has been advising me on … Continue reading →