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{ Monthly Archives } September 2008

In case you were wondering…

This Daily News database of all LAUSD salaries is accurate. If you’re wondering how I feel that anyone can search and find out to the cent how much money I make, I can’t say I’m angry or upset. Frankly, teacher salaries have never been much of a secret. The real value here is peeking into [...]

Kyoko does an impersonation …

… of Jim Lehrer as he moderated the first debate. What do you think?

It’s (Still) A Man’s Man’s Man’s World

Not quite a year and half after being launched and the DC imprint, Minx, is kaput. Minx was focused on releasing comics oriented for female teens. I had high hopes for what Minx meant to the comics industry. It was something I would regularly bring up and mention to my colleagues – a beacon of [...]

The DFW-Plex

So for the past two weeks I’ve been secretly reading tons and tons of blog posts, articles, obits, and tributes to David Foster Wallace. This has significantly affected my productivity – I literally spend significant portions of my free time reading what other writers and bloggers have to say about a writer that could have [...]

“Guess You Only Get One Chance in Life to Play a Song that Goes Like …”

I’ve apparently dropped the ball. It wasn’t until last Thursday, when I casually picked up the LA Weekly, as always, that I saw Frank’s mug on the cover, carefully thumbed to the corresponding feature, anxiously read through the contents, confirmed the details, and dealt with the realization that Joe’s Garage is finally getting a proper [...]

On Borders Not Being Crossed Quite Yet

So tomorrow is a social kick off event for the graduate program I’ll be starting in a week. It would be a generally wise decision to go rub elbows with my soon-to-be academic colleagues. I’m told that this whole networking thing is the name o’ da game, after all. However, tomorrow – at the same [...]

Castles with Farley

“We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us. …The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” I’m sleeping at the beach. (It’s one of the few times I’m convinced to go. And though it’s a scientific fact that I cannot get sunburned, [...]

Bringing Cloudy to Life: A Photo Essay

As initial planning for the Los Angeles version of the Black Cloud Game unrolled, we knew very early on that the Black Cloud, in effigy, would dance at the game’s concluding celebration. Often times, what’s been great about the Black Cloud Game is coming up with ideas, concepts, and processes that are innovative and not [...]

Border Crossing: The Chinkle-Chankle of Mixed Connections

Look, this is going to have to come out sooner or later so I’ll state it bluntly. In a few weeks I will begin a doctorate program in Urban Schooling. Yes, I will STILL be teaching at Manual. Okay now that we’re all on the same page I’m starting a new blog category as introduced [...]

Post Los Angeles Black Cloud Press

I think these will trickle in every now and then. I’ll update this page as they do. (This is more for my reference than for selfish promotion.) Planetizen by Nate Berg Inhabitat Vigorous North Making Seed Bombs with the Los Angeles Guerrilla Gardeners