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I've had a rich summer of music this year; Dresden Dolls at the Fillmore...Camper Van Beethoven's 25th anniversary show also at the Fillmore - with the Catheads opening (a highlight!)...the Symphony at Dolores Park...the Buckets reunion show at the DuNord (for me, that show was like the high school reunion everyone should have)...all so much fun and filled with such great energy. Yet the one that prompts me to write is the Triclops! show that I had the privilege to witness this last...

What is an internet troll? The Wikipedia definition of an internet troll is kept well up to date. I wonder, though, where is the line drawn between a troll and a simple curmudgeon? Various forums that I contribute to have strict guidelines that deal with this issue. Basically, if a contributor does not provide useful discussion in a supportive and community oriented manner, they are banned with some warning. Some sites are more exclusive than others; it depends on the culture of the site as...

Okay, I'll break it to you gently (well, no, I won't); I stopped watching mainstream television after 911. The news and commercials just became unbearably, audaciously offensive. They were probably that way before 911, but for some reason, that was when it became obvious to me. Not watching television on a regular basis has actually been incredibly freeing as a lifestyle choice. I write a lot more and read a lot more and go for more hikes and know all of my neighbors and take a lot...

Whew, I've finally found some time to take a deep breath and write about Jason Freeman's Flock in presentation with the Rova Saxophone Quartet. See the video here. Franciscan Monk and I headed down south to the Black Box Theatre at MACLA in San Jose, early June. Flock was being presented in correlation with the highly lauded inaugural Zero1 Festival in downtown SJ. We exchanged our tickets at the door for baseball hats with glowing plastic half baseballs attached to the top. The room...

I am rendered helpless by their cuteness...as I continue to work on my 1, 2, 3, 4...omg up to 10 pages so far final paper on A Language Older Than Words by Derrick Jensen. Finding a happy balance between the anarcho-primitivist and the Brechtian punk cabaret!