October 2008
I know I should have been here sooner, but it’s really weird to be in Storyville and it not be Storyville. That was such a great club.
My elitist cadre of wealthy well-educated friends in San Francisco and I have decided that Sarah Palin is wrong for America.
I threw my computer out the window because I want to make something real. I want to make a Yaz record.
At Cento, standing at the front of a very long line
September 2008
Wondering how badly the coffee I spilled on my MacBook damaged it. When I turned it sideways, Ethiopian Koratie flowed out from the airvents
Watching the Dow yo-yo. For a minute there, things looked really, really grim. Now it is back to merely horrifying.
Spending my Amazon associates fee on a really nice burr grinder.
In case you missed it this weekend: http://barackobamawilllookyouintheeye.com
Oh, Dolores Park Truffle guy, you underestimated my appetites.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-9-28) →
Caribou
Blonde Redhead
Beirut
The National
Yeasayer
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Harper and I are getting matching West Coast tattoos. Also, we are exceptionally drunk.
I think I just heard like six gunshots
Great day spent biking through the Mission
Unlike John McCain, http://barackobamawilllookyouintheeye.com/
“The process of avoiding direct eye contact, known as averting gaze, will show...”
– Wolf Education Research Center
It is interesting to me that the McCain team spin is that McCain was the dominant fighter, when he took one of the most submissive physical postures an animal can take towards another.
(via slowpoke)
I think McCain did well tonight just by virtue of not having his pants fall down around his ankles.
So, wait. I’m confused, does traveling to foreign counties matter or not? I thought Paln told me it didn’t.
Barack Obama has already texted me three times today. Is it important, dude, because I am hella busy right now.
Oddly enough, however, John McCain was elected Ms. Congeniality of the 1947 Midshipman’s Freshman Beauty Pagent
Going to bed worrying about what happens if Putin rears his head while I sleep. Will Mordor rise again? Hope not. Have a big weekend planned
Just got an email from WaMu with subject: “the holidays start today.” Totally not making that up.
Is That Your Final Answer?
Couric: Have you ever been involved in any negotiations, for example, with the Russians? Palin: I personally believe that U.S. Americans have trade missions back and forth, we do. It’s very important when you consider even national-security issues with Russia. As Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where do they go? It’s Alaska....
What are those fireworks downtown? Not the Giants…
Holy duckfuckers Sarah Palin is dangerously and transparently unqualified
“Last week… John McCain called for a commission to “find out what went wrong” on...”
– Thomas Frank in a Wall Street Journal op-ed entitled “It’s Judgment Day for McCain”. Things just suck for John McCain right now. (via election08)
Ouch!
I’m speaking at Google’s SF campus in a couple of hours. Calling this intimidating would be a vast understatement.
I think the New York Times wants me to get a tattoo on my neck. http://bit.ly/2sBpsf
WatchThe Great Schlep
I thought McCain already suspended his campaign. You know, back when he handed it over to Sarah Palin and Karl Rove?
My Twitter Grade is 97 (http://twitter.grader.com/mat). Do I get a free bowl of soup with that?
“One day in 2000, I dropped my daughter, Ruby, off at nursery school and was...”
– Toms Essay - Measure for Measure - Opinion - New York Times Blog
At what point in the day is it socially acceptable to switch from caffeine to alcohol?
Fuck gold. I’m investing in cheap whiskey.
Sitting down to dinner at Zuni. Can’t believe I’ve lived here a decade without ever eating here before
Talking Points Memo | The Big Question: 2+2=4? →
dustinblake:
The New York Times reports this evening that “foreign banks, which were initially excluded from the [Wall Street bailout] plan, lobbied successfully over the weekend to be able to sell the toxic American mortgage debt owned by their American units to the Treasury, getting the same treatment as United States banks.”
The Times further reports that two of the biggest foreign banks in...
I think I’m testing the limits of long-term sleep deprivation.
50 minutes from gate to exiting the parking lot. OAK used to be so much faster than SFO. That’s no longer true.
At baggage claim in Oakland and wondering why luggage is always so slow to arrive here. Do they send it via banana slug?
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-9-21) →
Beirut
Okkervil River
Elliott Smith
DJ Danger Mouse & Jay-Z
Sufjan Stevens
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz