Trekkie, 2.0

At 5 pm, the reruns would come on.  I knew that the episodes weren’t new.  After all, TV40 wasn’t a channel you turned to for the latest in TV programming.  But the sounds, the sights, the characters — – for me, it was the first time around.
Like clockwork, my dad would get home from work [...]

The best reviews ever… (article)

The San Francisco Chronicle has the best approach to reviewing new albums and CDs:
CD: Guns N’ Roses, ‘Chinese Democracy’
Aidin Vaziri
Sunday, November 23, 2008

Axl Rose is an idiot. 

Heart/ache

Hearts don’t really ache.  That’s not where the nerves that convey emotional pain end.  Interestingly enough, your brain doesn’t really ache in that way either.  So neither the symbol of love, nor the actual processor of it, are the locations of the experience of emotional pain.

How to save a life

There’s a stretch of tunnel that you’ll pass through if you happen to be on Geary Boulevard in San Francisco.  It’s a part of Geary that crisscrosses below Masonic Street.  As you keep driving, you are suddenly in a world of multi-laned flourescent light.
I had once been given a speeding ticket for doing an irresponsible [...]

Salman Rushdie and U2

It took years, but I finally renewed my subscription to The Nation.  And now that I’m back to getting my weekly dose of progressive insight, I realized something else.  I could finally track down that fun little letter to the editor that I wrote years ago.
Berkeley, Calif.
■ Kudos for publishing Salman Rushdie’s
reflections on U2. In [...]

Next on Forum…

“On the second hour of Forum, we’ll be joined by a panel of Asian Americans, here to talk about their experiences on other panels of Asian Americans.”
“Next on Forum.  The paneling of Asian Americans.  I’m Michael Krasny.”

A little sensationalism never hurt nobody

My last blog post taught me a valuable lesson.  If you want to boost your blog readership, make sure to link the subject of your post to the destruction of earth.
Then just sit back and watch as you get a couple hundred more visitors than you thought possible.

Black holes? What black holes? (article)

Fears have emerged that the collider could produce black holes that could suck up anything around them — including the whole Earth. Such fears prompted legal actions in the U.S. and Europe…Although physicists acknowledge that the collider could, in theory, create small black holes, they say they do not pose any risk.
Multibillion-dollar experiment to probe [...]

California’s Third World (article)

…about 20 miles southwest of Fresno, the owner of a cherry-tomato farm was fined $3,365 for violations that included offering no first aid and nothing to drink except a jug of foul, undrinkable water…
…20 miles away in Kingsburg that same day, Ramiro Carrillo died after hand-picking nectarines in the 112-degree sun…
More California farmworkers dying [...]

From daughter to mother

My friend “DD” posted this to her facebook page.  It is a letter to her mom.  With her permission, I share it with you:
I miss….