February 2009
6 posts
ska Ska SKA!
The UpTones had sooooo much fun playing the Phoenix Theater in Petaluma last Friday. The Phoenix is a sweet old theater that has burned down twice, only to rise from the ashes like a, well, phoenix. It’s like a bigger version of Gilman or the old iMusicast but with an added dimension - skate ramps! Tom Gaffey has maintained the place for years as a true labor of love, and of course the kids...
No Everest For The Wicked
Well, I just watched yet another account of the disastrous events on Everest in 1996, when a lot of tourists ambled up the mountain and were greeted on the way down by nature’s full wrath. Ok, that’s not exactly right. But the first account of this tragedy I read, Jon Krakauer’s bestselling and controversial Into Thin Air, is highly critical of the practice of professional guide...
Bloggeth Forth
I haven’t been here in a while, in this odd room, this place I plop observations and musings about whatsoever impresses me for good or ill. It isn’t that I haven’t thought of blogs - to the contrary, I seem to think of them every day now. On the Bart, in the street, anywhere, little things happen and it’s now a part of my brain matter to think “oh I’ll write a...
Skanking Fools, Hotsy Totsies and Oaksterdam Foxes
Friday was a huge night in the east bay. Dear friends and coolest couple ever to pour drinks while kick boxing and spinning vintage 45’s, Michael Valladares and Jessica Maria kicked off their grand opening weekend at the Hotsy Totsy with a ribbon cutting ceremony attended by the mayor of Albany and other local luminaries.
Across town in West Berkeley, while the Hotsy was packing ‘em...
"Never underestimate a pissed off wolf who wants... →
There’s a veritable subgenre of music inspired by she whose name I cannot speak without gagging. This song howls at the head of the pack. It is damn funny, but also deeply tragic, much like the wolf-shooting nucular gosh darn disaster who inspired it.
Palin VS Wolfman by Leena Shirlee.
