New Column is Up at “Is Greater Than”

by admin on March 9, 2010

My March column is now up at the great online magazine “Is Greater Than.” Some topics covered: dumpster diving, eating at home, voluntary simplicity, maintaining political and social ideals past the age of thirty, and the unacknowledged until now influence of Thoreau on my young adulthood.

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Inspiration: Grace Paley

by admin on February 24, 2010

I cannot wait to see this movie. Ms. Paley was fierce and brilliant. My favorite is the shot of her in the “Hell No” beanie looking just someone I wish I could run into on the street. This is why we are alive.

http://www.gracepaleythefilm.com/paleytrailerfl.html

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Podcast: Beware the Janglers–The February Edition

February 22, 2010

Featuring Beach House, Sia, High Places plus a tribute to Angela Carter.
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Playlist:
JJ Fad-Supersonic
Dum Dum Girls–Jail La La
P.P. Arnold–The First Cut is the Deepest
Beach House-Norway
Citay-Mirror Kisses
High Places-On Giving Up
Hot Chip-Take It In
Sia-You’ve Changed

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Blog: Bikes and the City

February 19, 2010

I just discovered Bikes and the City blog via Bust Magazine. I love how the writer has simplified her life down to three important things: bikes, coffee and boys. I crave that sort of simplicity, that easy enjoyment of what an individual life has to offer. Her outfits are cute  too. I’m going to start wearing more [...]

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Beyond the Highest Bidder

February 18, 2010

You can read my article on Schwarzenegger’s proposal to privatize California prisons–as well as the urgent need for sentencing reform–at the North Bay Bohemian website.

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Something Strange: Yeasayer’s Odd Blood

February 11, 2010

My review of the new, weird Yeasayer album is up at the Bohemian.

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Book: The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver

February 10, 2010

I will make only one disclaimer, before writing about how much I loved this book, and that is an admissmion that my dad is a Trotsky-phile and that I carry a bit of that tendency.  Since Trotsky is one of the main “characters” in Kingsolver’s latest novel,  it is important to put that out in [...]

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New Column up at Is Greater Than

February 9, 2010

Talking about cabbage patch kids, “Steve Almond’s deluded wannabes,” self-publishing, cool lit journals and Rocky Rivera!

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You Can’t Be Neutral On a Moving Train: R.I.P Howard Zinn (1922-2010)

January 27, 2010

I just heard the news that Howard Zinn died of a heart attack today while traveling with his family in Santa Monica. He was 87 years old, and while that is a good long life to have been lived, it still makes my heart ache that someone with such a powerful, essential voice–a voice crucial to [...]

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Happy Birthday Virginia Woolf

January 25, 2010

 Today is Virginia Woolf’s birthday. Just knowing that she existed in the world and left behind the writing and thoughts that she did, is enough to inspire me to continue putting words together in savory combinations. She wrote  To the Lighthouse, whose sentences rank as some of the most  melancholy and gorgeous strands of prose I’ve [...]

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