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About Me

When these profiles ask me what I'm into I've gotten in the habit of simply saying, "Art, philosophy and world domination"- I'd say "Plans for World domination" but that adds a certain pipe dream element and I've found the one recurring element in my biography is the blurring of the line between pipe dreams and reality.
Just like how the national anthem tries to sum up patriotism by recounting a tiny, yet important event, in history, I'll fill in this "About me" section with one tiny event from my history- After graduating from college I worked in Hollywood for a year or so before I got a job offer from a yo-yo company. Yoyoing was a hobbie of mine and a book I wrote about the science of "High-end" yo-yo play was about to be published when this company started fishing for people to work as demonstrators for them. At the time I was a PA (gopher) for the writers and producers of The Simpsons with the goal of making movies and I asked the advice of one of the lead writers on the show who might share a little wisdom with me. He gave me a few insights and reasons to take the job and the one that I distilled out of the conversation and remember to this day is the single line, "You can't tell stories if you haven't got stories to tell."

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Filling a blank calendar

I have a tradition with my parents that we go to the same Japanese steakhouse for my birthday each year. But my birthday is December 31st, so it didn't take long as an adult to have the tradition disp...
Posted by on Wed, 31 Dec 2008 01:31:00 GMT

StraightEdge at BurningMan

Some background on terms here for those of you that may not be familiar: "StraightEdge" is a movement that sprung out of the American Hardcore punk scene of the early 80s. Back then a band called Mino...
Posted by on Wed, 03 Sep 2008 04:37:00 GMT

Why you cant plan a threesome (long)

First off a few disclaimers: 1) If you think that you are somehow part of what inspired this rant, chances are you aren't 2) I know that it is technically possible to plan a threesome. 3) Yeah, I have...
Posted by on Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:31:00 GMT

Today’s term: Roulette Money (rant)

Today's word boys and girls in "Roulette Money". When someone says "... of course this business plan is solid. We do this and that and then someone will buy us and we make a profit". That is roulette ...
Posted by on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:31:00 GMT

Corporate Samsara

In Hinduism (and in a way Buddhism) there is the concept of "Samsara". Samsara is the endless cycle of birth, death, rebirth/reincarnation and so on. I once heard it described in a lecture as a fire t...
Posted by on Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:10:00 GMT

Stay afraid, suckers!

Here's an excerpt from an article in this month's Psychology Today that I came across yesterday and found twistedly funny for all kinds of personal philosophical and political reasons:"After 9/11, 1.4...
Posted by on Sun, 30 Dec 2007 11:20:00 GMT

Eulogy for Kiss or Kill

I make no secret of the story that while I was in Buenos Aires this spring I got to see a full Broadway-caliber production of "Cabaret". It was amazing. For those of you that don't know Cabaret is a ...
Posted by on Wed, 12 Dec 2007 03:10:00 GMT

Future proof

Somehow I went from being the filmamker to the multi-media guy to now just an f-ing computer programmer. This wouldn't bug me if the shit didn't keep changing.Computer programming appeals to the stere...
Posted by on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 01:40:00 GMT

More screwdrivers than screws (short, contemplative)

There should be a word for when things mirror grander themes in life. I think Jung probably had a term for it. I had one of those today. A friend calls me up on a little gadget he got; a Nokia 770. It...
Posted by on Fri, 06 Jul 2007 01:05:00 GMT

I want to fight Richard Dawkins in an alley

Preceding thoughts of the thought of the day: Science is just another system of understanding; just a religion without the human and cultural elements. One of my big pet peeves these days is how devou...
Posted by on Sun, 11 Mar 2007 20:34:00 GMT