Month: September 2006

This business of taking photographs with my phone is for the birds– and even they are complaining…

Anyway, as I was walking home last night, I was walking through *ahem* Petaluma’s Historical Theatre District– which pretty much consists of a movie theatre and– um… actually, that’s really IT…

They DO, however, have a rather nice art deco design for the otherwise pedestrian cinimaplex downtown. So as I was walking by I decided to take a couple of photographs (which appear on my photos page), one of which is the new splash page for my main site, which is kind of amusing for about two minutes, but I simply MUST come up with a more professional looking design if I’m ever going to get any paying gigs out of it.

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I spent WAAAYYY more time today than I ever should have spent on it, trying to cobble together a natural-looking (FAILED) marquee for the middle of the photo leading into my site, including what was supposed to be a neon sign (failing again) reading “glassangel”.

Anyway, I have other work to do, so I guess it’s “Back to Work”…

when I took my SATs years ago (at the ripe old age of 16), I declared myself a journalism major, and proceeded to take a grand total of one journalism class (before changing my major for the first time, to music, which pays sooo much better than journalism). My instructor (for the Spring Quarter satire edition of the Humboldt State journalism magazine) later became famous– as a hostage in Beirut.

I guess musicians don’t make the best hostages.

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So here I am, lo these *ahem* 23 years later…

and I’m working on a satirical webzine The Paranoid Gazette, and I’m actually doing more research for each article than I would probably be doing if I were under deadline at a real journalism gig… Could explain why Comedy Central wins more Peabody Awards than Fox News. (I mean, other than the obvious fact that Fox news is to journalism what ptomaine is to egg salad…)

In other news, one of my favorite Texans (a short list) and favorite politicians (an even shorter list), the inimitable Ann Richards, died this past week of cancer at age 73. I’ve posted an excerpt from Molly Ivins column marking the event (as well as a link to the full column) in my news blog Media Vulture, including a cool picture that I found in some archive from Texas.

well, as one may suspect from this post, I’m not at work, so I have time to kill– hence this posting…

the situation isn’t dire, but I’m not holding my breath. And I have another interview for yet another place…

Anyway… in lieu of financial renumeration for my efforts, once again I turn to the masturbatory simple rewards of a blog well done: in this case, my news and media criticism blog (dedicated to the late great Turn’o’the [last] Century Austrian media critic, Karl Kraus), Media Vulture.

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This week, I present a parsing of one of George Bush’s recent addresses, in which he expresses his displeasure with the Articles of the Geneva Convention (and International Law in general), and extolls the virtues of such wholesome activities as running Secret Prisons, Torture, and Military Tribunals.

Enjoy!

Continue reading “Everything happens for the best…”

Young, bright-eyed, aspiring bloggers are always asking me: How can I too become a Beloved Blogger like you. And, of course, I tell them:

Drink LOTS and LOTS of coffee! It’s GOOD. And good For You!

You’ll ALSO need the proper tools and Work Environment.

Of course, when the MAJOR HALLUCINAGENS wear off, I find myself alone, and people are asking if I’m using the chair across the table from me

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