misty music

I have a weakness for bands that recreate a kind of swirly flower-power pop 60s sound and feeling. That’s one reason why I like the Shins, and why sometimes I return to a couple of the LA “paisley revival” bands of the 80s: The Rain Parade and The Three O’Clock.

The Rain Parade’s “Emergency [...]

melted moon

You can’t be too greedy with celestial objects.
I have a galaxy on the ceiling over my bed, several feet long. It’s a glow-in-the-dark craft project Maggie gave me. I’ve been pretty happy with it over the years. I turn out the light to go to sleep and the Milky Way pops out and slowly [...]

i feel like playa dust

the party starts whenever you read this

Woo Hoo! 1,000 hits since I started counting!
Suggested ways to celebrate
- Pick up your mouse by its tail and spin it around (if cordless, toss it against the wall)
- Open junk mail and order “herbal viagra”
- Read how to generate a nearly scale-invariant, adiabatic, gaussian spectrum of density perturbations
There are so many thanks to give [...]

just waiting for my moment

Yes, a short play I wrote is in a fringiest-of-fringe theater production. Yes, I have a small role that requires about 30 seconds on stage and that’s fun. Somehow the production has grown into a monster; it’s three…hours…long. Three hours. Since my part comes in near the very end, I can stay home during the [...]

my architect

I’m glad I saw this movie. The documentary about architect Louis I. Kahn moves from mildly interesting, to fascinating, to amazing. Everything about the man (who died at age 73 in 1974) was unusual, from his designs to his social and family life.
One outstanding moment is when we are looking at footage of a [...]

do not smoke the dragonfly blood

It’s a good lesson for us all. If you’ve got a big rubbery prehistoric fish in your lab, and if a dragonfly lands on the fish and gets infected with radioactive prehistoric fish germs, and the dragonfly then grows into a plastic-looking two-foot long monster bug, and if you then stab that dragonfly through the [...]