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Still one of my favorites.

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We had a lot of fun with this one:

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...that I'm almost, sorta, kinda formerly related by law to the guy who cleans the anti-war graffiti off of Nancy Pelosi's house.The world is both small, and weird.

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AKA, "A Buttload of Hyperlinks." Presented in no particular order.Best video game: Okami, PS2Runner up, even though I’ve only played it for about an hour: Bioshock, Xbox 360Best book (fiction): For Whom the Bell TollsRunner ups: Independence Day, Siddhartha, The Plague, A Deepness in the SkyBest book (nonfiction): Wild SwansRunner ups: Infidel, The Myth of Sisyphus, The Clock of the Long NowBest

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Obviously I'm biased, but I think this is just silly. Marc Ecko claims he's using the ball as a spark for serious public debate (I'm guessing the mountain of publicity it's getting him also may have been a consideration). Here's his opinion on the matter:Ecko, who is letting the public decide what to do with Bonds' record-setting baseball, said he had voted to brand the historic sphere with an

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The whole at-bat, from my seat in upper deck section 315, row 13, seat 19. I don't care if anyone reading this is a baseball fan or not. This was simply one of the coolest things I've ever personally witnessed.

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I stopped by UCSF Medical Center last Friday for some tests (nothing serious) and decided to poke around the bookstore on my way back to the parking garage. Right inside the door was an entire barrel full of these. Apparently this is the kind of thing medical students are collecting nowadays instead of Beanie Babies. That's ebola there up above, the notorious and super-deadly virus capable of

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Every three months or so, judging by my archives, I get the urge to jump back in to blogging. I put up a post, edit and re-edit said post for about a week, get depressed that no one's ever going to read the stupid post I've just spent a week re-editing, and resolve to drop blogging again for another three months. Well, apparently it's about that time again, and for this go-around I've decided

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I finally got around to uploading another video to my YouTube channel. If you haven't seen my goofy student film Stalker! (although that's a slightly redundant description...I imagine every film I've ever made could reasonably be labeled "goofy" in some way) here's the embed:And while I'm on the YouTube stuff: One fricking star? What's up with that?

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Hey! Baseball's here!Ok, so the season started two weeks ago. It's not like anybody reads this shit anyway. My picks for the season (asterisks indicate Wild Cards):NL WestSan DiegoArizona*Fuckin' DodgersGiantsColoradoNL CentralMilwaukeeSt. LouisCincinattiHoustonChicagoPittsburghNL EastNew YorkPhiladelphiaAtlantaFloridaWashingtonAL WestLAA of ATexasOaklandSeattleAL

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Kurt Vonnegut.

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Photos from our Lake Tahoe trip in late December. We spent the entire time in downtown South Lake Tahoe, a fun, if over-touristed, place to visit. Christy and I took a few days to bum around town with our dogs before Boyne came in for a visit from San Jose, then he and I went skiing at Heavenly while Christy hung out at the Tahoe Marriott's day spa. We chose Heavenly as a matter of convenience

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Here's Farhad Manjoo in Salon.com on Apple's new iPhone:There are probably only a few of us who really need to have a cellphone, an iPod, a Web browser, a text chat system, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi all in one device wherever we go -- maybe if you're an E.R. doctor or a FEMA official. (Maybe not a FEMA official.) For most of us, all this will be as necessary as a Hummer in Riverside. The real point is

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Clap, clap, clap clap clap.

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On October 14, my dog Ozzie and myself will be participating in San Francisco's annual Doggone Fun Run, a 5k run/walk to raise money for the SFSPCA, where Ozzie takes agility classes, and PAWS, a group that helps people with terminal diseases like HIV/AIDS stay together with their pets. If you feel like sponsoring our run by shooting us some cash, just click on this link to visit our donation

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"Vlog" has got to be one of the most singularly hideous words in the English language. This is a significant achievement for a phrase that has only been around since about 2001. This word, along with its only-slightly-less-awful cousin "vodcast," represents an unfortunate impulse in our nation's media to repeat and proliferate a phrase it percieves as appealing to a younger demographic, no

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I've been slumping around the computer for weeks waiting for something that would spark an inspiration to put up a worthwhile blog entry. I'm still looking. However, in the area of non-worthwhile blogging about stupid bullshit, I'm happy to say that inspiration has finally struck. I direct your eager eyes to this website, dug up via Peter Hartlaub's blog at SFGate.com, which provides an

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Sorry guys, I'm taking a hiatus from blogging to work on a portfolio and hopefully score some gainful employment. I'll be back soon.Quick update on It's Something Special: Color correction is finished, and since I've decided to run with the sound mix I've already got this movie's not going to get any more ready for screening. To that end, I'm considering putting it online for download. I'll

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For those of you who don't follow baseball, opening day was yesterday. For those of you who do (anybody?), here are my postseason predictions:NL West: LA DodgersNL Central: St. Louis CardinalsNL East: Atlanta BravesNL Wild Card: Philadelphia PhilliesAL West: Oakland AthleticsAL Central: Minnesota TwinsAL East: NY YankeesAL Wild Card: Boston Red SoxNLCS: Phillies over BravesALCS: A's over

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It's that that time of year again.

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Snakes on a Plane: best movie title ever? Or just, say, among the top twenty? Thoughts?

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All right, no more blog deadlines. You think I would have learned by now, but...no. I've got a two-page love fest for Capote that I'll finish up sooner or later, but blogging about the Oscars is like, so three weeks ago. Besides, I don't really have much else to add to the discussion. But I will say this: Crash? Ok, I didn't comment about this back on March 6th, because – confession time

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I should have posted about this days ago, but I guess I was busy recovering from having my face rocked off: LA arena-rock legends Chop Suzy have a new EP out, and you can pick it up for $5 (as well as stickers, t-shirts, and free MP3s from both Suzy albums) from their newly-redesigned website. For those of you in the LA-area, "Going to the Mall" is also available at Amoeba Music in Hollywood.

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BOOOOOO.

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Ok, I give. It looks like I bit off more than I could chew with this Oscar blogging thing. I'll go ahead and post the write-ups on the next three movies as I get them finished; going by my current pace, that should take me about a week. In the meantime, if you're planning on watching the show tomorrow night, do me a favor and root for Capote. Me? I'll be driving back from Tahoe. Impromptu

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