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Mark

Recovering Vegan

About Me

Now that I'm done with grad school I only have about 37 years until I can retire.

My Interests

aquariums, paid programming, Thomas Kinkade's early work, shopping for new clothes when I forgot to bring a sweater, vintage honda motorcycles

I'd like to meet:

Morrissey, Chris Elliott, displaced Canadians

Music:

The Kings of Convenience,I Am the World Trade Center, Stars, Rogue Wave, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, Architecture in Helsinki, The Clinentele, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Elliott Smith, The Smiths, Belle and Sebastian, Tegan and Sara, Magnetic Fields, anything else by Stephen Meritt, Fischerspooner, old Pet Shop Boys, Depeche Mode, The Boy Least Likely To, Magnetic Fields, Johnny Cash, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Morrissey (of course), Tugboat Annie, Wilco, the Rentals, Interpol, The Hidden Cameras, The Islands

Movies:

Mysterious Skin, You Me and Everyone We Know, Northfork, Too Much Sleep, UHF, March of the Penguins, Storytellling, anything by Andy Warhol, Fargo, Good Bye Lenin!

Television:

The Simpsons, Strangers with Candy, Eye on the Bay

Books:

Holy Land by DJ Waldie, S M L XL by Rem Koolhaas, The Cheese Monkeys, The Daily Practice of Painting by Gerhard Richter, Bad by Paul Fussell, McSweeney's, Suddenly Last Summer by Tennessee Williams, David Sedaris, The Devil's Teeth (I love sharks), The Little Ice Age, Everybody's Guide to Small Claims Court (just checking to see if you're still reading)

Heroes:

The inventor of vegetarian jerky.

My Blog

the last creme egg

Well, this was my last Cadbury Creme Egg for 2007. I scoured the discount aisle at Walgreens tonight and there were only two of them left, and one had been crushed. There were a million Caramel Creme ...
Posted by Mark on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 11:39:00 PST

urbanism via John King

Hey! Happy Monday!While I sometimes find his columns annoying, I actually enjoyed this piece from today's SF Chronicle:John King's article on poorly designed urbanismIt treads a lot of old ground, but...
Posted by Mark on Mon, 09 Apr 2007 09:50:00 PST

Keith Richards, looking good

This picture was associated with a story titled Keith Richards: 'I snorted my father'....
Posted by Mark on Wed, 04 Apr 2007 08:12:00 PST

Indiana

As if we need another story to confirm that American politicians have their heads up their collective asses: McCain Wrong on Iraq Security, Merchants SayMy favorite part has to be :At a news conferenc...
Posted by Mark on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 09:22:00 PST

new Turkish restaurant alert!

I stumbled upon a new restaurant today, and if you are in the Tenderloin in San Francisco I highly advise a stop at the Anatolian Kitchen at 39 Taylor St, about a block in from Market. It's near the 2...
Posted by Mark on Mon, 02 Apr 2007 11:33:00 PST

just for me

I was reading some reviews of digital cameras this morning, and yahoo put up a list of "Gadgets You Might Like" on the side of the page. All of them are for the most part obsolete, including the ancie...
Posted by Mark on Sun, 01 Apr 2007 11:02:00 PST

art auction action

My office is having a big party next Friday, and part of it is a silent art auction. Here is my contribution. It is 12" square, and is mixed media on canvas (if you are thinking about buying it). It's...
Posted by Mark on Fri, 30 Mar 2007 11:22:00 PST

the internet

Today's number one search on yahoo: "cute animals."Thank God for the internet. I shudder to think of the days when our only sources for cute animal pictures were puppy sweatshirts and posters with a k...
Posted by Mark on Fri, 30 Mar 2007 06:53:00 PST

it's been a while

arrgh. I am supposed to be working on this very small painting/collage for an art auction. I can't bring myself to work on it tonight, despite the fact that it has monopolized my apartment. There are ...
Posted by Mark on Thu, 29 Mar 2007 12:13:00 PST

long story short

hello all. it has been a while. I have been busy.I got laid off from my job in Emeryville on December 22. I went in to talk with my boss, and then he gave me a fancy bottle of champagne, and then he t...
Posted by Mark on Sat, 20 Jan 2007 01:55:00 PST