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Like one of those seasonal Singa-along Messiah’s, only groovier

Once again, everybody’s copying Steve and Terrie. I’ll bet someone got this idea after standing outside our house some evening years ago listening to us performing the B-side of Abbey Road.

Bring your voices and be ready for a one-of-a-kind fun-filled evening. All Together Now: A Fabulous Beatles Sing-Along features local tribute band Beatlesque leading [...]

Natalie Goldberg at Copperfields

I went to hear Natalie Goldberg speak at our local bookstore today. A few weeks ago I “discovered” her classic book on writing, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within and have been reading it. I was surprised when my friend TJ told me she was going to be in town promoting [...]

Notes from FOO Saturday (2006)

This was originally posted in August 2006 on another blog; another post I thought was worth keeping.
While FOO camp doesn’t tend to have an official theme, themes do emerge. For me, the recurrent theme at FOO was probably something close to Transhumanism. Note that I actually had to come back home and look that [...]

This is my brain on the brain machine

As Maker Faire Austin closed, I got a chance to try the Brain Machine.

The Brain Machine was a featured project in MAKE 10 by Mitch Altman.
I didn’t expect much from the Brain Machine, but I was quite interested, given my recent experiences with meditation, which has been quite different than putting on psychedelic [...]

The Blue Ball

I’ll never want to be the kind of person that has a wardrobe of formal wear and goes to high-dollar charity events. But if I were, I would definitely go to the Farallon Islands Blue Ball.
Our friend, Tippi Hedren, will be among the luminaries there.