Monthly Archives: November 2007

watch the Boondocks

It is crunch time. Holidays are upon us and the semester is rolling to a relentless close. It’s all I can do to make time to laugh, and the folks at Adult Swim/ Comedy Central/ Aaron McGruder Inc. have made it easy.
The new season of The Boondocks is all over the internet, thanks to a [...]

get up, a-get, get, get down

Updated the list of articles to include the October/November issue of HI Luxury magazine, which has a piece by yours truly called “Get Up & Get Down: Happy hour and more at the Hanohano Room.”
This magazine impresses me more and more with each issue. Unfortunately the band was not correctly identified in the caption; [...]

complaining as an artform

Why are there so many ways to make a simple, hard-boiled egg? Ice baths and timers, are they really necessary? Then when I find the perfect recipe, why do I tell it to my sis wrong, when she’s just trying to eat?
And why did my guestbook, attract so much comment spam? Every day a [...]

social network burnout no match for serendipity

I never obessessed over MySpace. I’ll admit to having had a lurker account; how else could I check out the seemingly endless stream of grainy cell phone pics snapped in bathroom mirrors across America? And, later we did set up a QuadMag MySpace account where I sometimes check in. But I’ve never personalized a MySpace [...]