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[Cantaraworld] New slogan: No Fat Revolutionaries!

Jul 2nd

[Filmgoing] Interesting piece and pix on The Dark Knight production. Lindy Hemming and Maggie were...

Jul 1st

[Photobucket] Komica, Croatia

Jul 1st

[Cantaraworld] New blog entry on Skirt. http://snurl.com/skirt

Jun 30th

[Filmgoing] Just saw a rousing movie on Netflix, The Last Legion (2007). Great to see the Romans as...

Jun 29th

[Cantaraworld] New blog entry on Skirt, “Soignee by the Bay”. http://snurl.com/skirt

Jun 29th

[Filmgoing] Trying to pinpoint the exact moment of rape in The Sheik (1921, Rudolf Valentino) -...

Jun 28th

[Cantaraworld] Ah, the pleasures of a skylight in the bathroom on a sunny day!

Jun 26th

[Filmmaking] The Regular Death of Independent...

Jun 24th

[Cantaraworld] Read aloud last night for Michael’s amusement (stoned, of course) from When...

Jun 24th

[Digital Cafe] Read great literature at work and fool your boss! http://readatwork.com

Jun 23rd

[Cantaraworld] Fundraiser at the Metro for the pro-hooker measure this afternoon. They’re...

Jun 22nd

[Cantaraworld] Bay Area heat wave. Tomorrow the beach, a block away!

Jun 20th

[Filmgoing] Finally saw Rendition on Netflix. Script impossible to take seriously, especially with...

Jun 19th

[Cantarabooks] GalleyCat has a few things to say about Cantarabooks. http://snurl.com/gacat

Jun 18th

[The Fame Lab] Good heavens! How could any of us have missed the signs? http://snurl.com/dstny

Jun 18th

[Cantaraworld] Bloomsday hangover. But worth it.

Jun 18th

[Cantarabooks] MediaBistro’s article on my literary press, is up. http://snurl.com/mebis

Jun 16th

[Filmgoing] Watching Craig Macneill’s short, Late Bloomer, at Cinema Lycos this afternoon....

Jun 15th

[Filmgoing] Watching Billy Bob Thornton’s short, Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade (dir George...

Jun 14th

[Filmgoing] Saw on Instant Netflix Starting Out in the Evening (dir Andrew Wagner 2007). A world of...

Jun 13th

[Cantaraworld] They’re building a concrete platform at Ocean Beach. For concerts hopefully?

Jun 12th

[Filmgoing] Just saw Jerome Bixby’s The Man From Earth (dir Richard Schenkman 2007). This is...

Jun 12th

[Filmgoing] Saw Sherrybaby finally. The Guardian (UK) called it a prescriptive and self-conscious...

Jun 11th

[The Fame Lab] The perfect material - Brokeback Mountain is going to be an opera!...

Jun 11th

[Filmgoing] Available now on Instant Netflix, two Gyllenhaal films: Waterland (Stephen and,...

Jun 9th

[Cantaraworld] Farewell, Antigua Cultural Coffee House in El Sereno! You were my favorite hangout in...

Jun 9th

[Digital Cafe] Why is Twitter being so cranky lately? Why can’t I get a feed or widget of all...

Jun 8th

[Digital Cafe] Of the widgets I’ve made this is the classiest. It’s for my blog Life....

Jun 8th

[Cantarabooks] Releasing Andrew Washton’s charming novella The Little Park next week. Watch...

Jun 8th

[Cantarabooks] Shouldn’t this be a rule of thumb for any submitter trying to win the approval...

Jun 8th

[Digital Cafe] Listen to the first pocast of the combined Cantarabooks+Cantaraville=Cantaraworld...

Jun 7th

[Digital Cafe] Another death knell for newspapers? http://snurl.com/2ectq

Jun 7th

[Star-Tribune] Read the Ten Tips for Life of Nassim Taleb, the prophet of randomness and author of...

Jun 7th

[Cantarabooks] Read an excerpt from Stephen Gyllenhaal’s autobiographical novel, Liquid Motel...

Jun 6th

[My Writing] (Re)started my memoir, The Universal Oriental Love Doll.

Jun 5th

[Cantaraworld] Almost forgot! Today is the 35th anniversary of the first day of my Watergate summer....

Jun 4th

[The Fame Lab] Farewell, Frankenstein? Goodbye, King Kong? Universal City burns down....

Jun 4th

[CityFables] A Hole in the Fog, Michael’s best novel, is now available to read and print out...

Jun 4th

[Digital Cafe] Start your own holiday. http://snurl.com/calen

Jun 4th

[The Fame Lab] Gina Gershon’s site is crashing. We should all be so lucky....

Jun 4th

[Cantaraworld] Greetings to friend Candace Frazee, curator of The Bunny Museum...

Jun 4th

[Cantaraworld] Columnist Bruce Bellingham says I’m “one of [SF’s] great...

Jun 3rd

[My Writing] Finished my short article on the ballot initiative to decriminalize prostitution in SF....

Jun 2nd