Month: June 2014
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Audience of One
I’m probably too old to be listening to Rise Against, but for some reason I am, and I’m supposed to be editing this fucking book, and I’m not. It’s still getting there, I guess. I wish it was done though so I could work on something else. I had an involved dream the other night…
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I keep that Bruce Hornsby album in my iTunes library for profiling purposes
It’s one of those days where I’m editing the first draft of this book and it’s probably 90% done and I need to push it and get it finished, and I waste ten hours finding isolated bass tracks on youtube. This book is almost done, though. And it sucks that Berry Gordy recorded all of…
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C-41 Process Nostalgia K-Holes
I am in the thick of editing this next book, and I really hate editing. I’m doing the work and fixing a lot of problems, but I like writing and creating and counting the words added a lot more than I do swimming in the soup of words and trying to kill passive verbs. There’s…
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The Wisdom Tooth Story
My friend Marc Broude is in the middle of impacted wisdom tooth drama, sitting in bed on painkillers while everyone replies to his post on facebook with their own tales of dental horror. My story is too big for a little box, so I thought I’d type it out here. When I got to Seattle…
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I wonder if Albrecht Durer was a Pepsi or a Coke guy
OK, I’m back. Went to bed at 8:00, Oakland time, and woke back up at 2:00, unable to sleep, so here I am, digging through the piles of trash from my luggage, trying to return the gadgets to their daily configuration so I can get back to The World by Monday. The flight back yesterday…
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Nuremberg
Good to be back here. I have walked a lot and ate too much and just bought a hundred pounds of art books. OK, a bulleted list summary: The flight out was brutal. Couldn’t sleep on the plane, other than little half-hour naps here and there. Left SFO at about 8:30 PM after a mechanical…