the reality tunnel

this is not a travel narrative part 2
The bus rolled into the mall parking lot. I was horrified with the fact that the parking lot was filled with cars the day after Christmas. My horror was not at the defiling of the true meaning of Christmas, but more at the endurance of the [...]

Christmas eve
Could anything be more absurd? I, who haven’t attended church regularly since I was sixteen or so and then only because it was really important to my mom and I, who, in the Sunday school classes, was always the most brazenly skeptical, and I, who somehow escaped the weekly duties of a church [...]

derringer videos
videos of my friend steve’s band, derringer, playing at 4-corners fest are on the web at http://www.tomgilkproductions.cjb.net/. the show was fun in some ways (nostalgia, kids’ excitement, something fun to do in a town where there’s not a lot to do) and disappointing in others (total bro-down, violence, sexism, racism, homophobia), but in [...]

socal show contacts from yon
LA: The Smell http://www.thesmell.org/
LA (silverlake/echo park): Casa Del Puebla
http://casadelpueblocoop.org/eng/index.htm
Long Beach: Koo’s Cafe http://www.koos.org/
San Diego: che cafe http://checafe.ucsd.edu/

fighting with windows
i spent like 3 hours last nice after pretty hot practice to try to figure out how to fix the cathy shack’s dsl. tech support was pretty helpless, but it turned out to be a problem that had to do with the computer and not the dsl service. the culprit – [...]