Archive: May 2006

• Google calendars & World Cup in tip · May 23, 18:05

  I’ve been bugging out on Google calendars recently, and I found a really nifty one for this year’s World Cup. Others: Bottom of the Hill shows (rock n roll!), Giants games (hey, batter), Dolores Park movie nights (bring: jacket, beer).

• Alone in Houston in flickr, urban, visual · May 19, 20:44

  I put some new photos on my Flickr page recently. This one is from a recent trip to Houston. I took it while driving around (I believe it’s called) The Beltway. The photo makes Houston seem empty, which, as I recall, is like the opposite of what it is. Especially the freeways. I don’t [...]

• Silver Jews / 27 goes into 50,000 in music, the ancient past · May 19, 20:36

  In the Silver Jews song “Trains Across the Sea,” there’s a line that goes: “In 27 years, I’ve drunk 50,000 beers, and they just wash against me like the sea into a pier.” That’s 5+ beers a day from birth until your 28th birthday. If you start at 16, you’re drinking a 12-pack a [...]

• Music / Sasha v Stephin in music · May 18, 16:43

  Stephin Merritt doesn’t like hip-hop, which is fine, but he made the mistake of assembling a playlist for the NYT that included no black artists, thereby awakening playlist affirmative action policeman, Sasha Frere-Jones. Actually, SF-J has had issues with Merritt since 2004, but now he’s throwing down and calling Merritt a “rockist cracker.” Not to [...]

• Bike-to-work day 2006 in bike, san francisco · May 18, 12:30

  Today is Bike-to-Work Day, which means that Market Street was slightly more alive this morning. As everyday is bike-to-work day for me, I would really rather see the “energizer stations” (PDF map of the Bike Coalition’s coverage) out there during the winter, when the wind is howling, the streets slick, and the cyclists few in [...]

• TV / Wes Anderson’s Amex ad in cinema, visual · May 16, 20:59

  “Why would I put on a hat if my best friend just got blown up in front of me?” An excellent question posed by Jason Schwartzman’s character in Wes Anderson’s excellent Amex ad. In just under two minutes, the ad encapsulates the brilliance of Anderson’s vision: it’s filled with snappy dialogue, exquisite production design, and [...]

• Baseball / Bonds-ron in baseball · May 11, 20:43

  As Barry Bonds approaches Babe Ruth on the lifetime homerun list, he’s getting a heckuva lot of ambivalent coverage: Veterans express ambivalence and skepticism (SI), even San Franciscans souring on the event (AP via ESPN), but baseball has seen worse, though not by much (ESPN). I figured I’d do some first-hand investigation this afternoon, so [...]