Here's an idea that came to me yesterday for a photo series. I was thinking about the growth of plants as a pulling, rather than a pushi...

Just want to share a pretty funny article from this week's New Yorker . I guess this is the kind of thing popular online life ruiner Fa...

Well, a sunny day, spontaneous brunch with a friend, and a bit of birthday shopping, and the world suddenly seems like a much more appealing...

Sometimes I feel like life is light and full of wonder, like a dream. But lately it just seems hard and mostly pointless. And people, those ...

It's 11.22.11, and I turn 44 today. Seems like there must be some significance to that. A dramatic start to the day supports this theory...

I just finished Alan Watts's The Wisdom of Insecurity , a book I've been meaning to read for years. Boy, did I need it, and boy, is ...

I just finished recording this song today for a friend of mine who's making a compilation of 80's pop covers for his wife as a Chris...

Has anyone ever read Lila , the sequel to Robert Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance that came out 17 years later? I pic...

Remember in the early 80's when prom-rock band Journey had its own video game? It was pretty cool, right? Each of the five band members ...

Lately I've been reading Simon Reynolds's latest book of rock commentary, Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past . ...

... thought you should see the jack-o-lantern I carved in record time yesterday. I kept it pretty classic this year — it looked nice with a ...

Well, a hundred bucks, half a day's work missed, and two cab rides later, it turns out to be a fan that needs replacing. Could've be...

Taking my computer downtown to the Apple store this morning because the hard drive's making a horrible whirring, grinding noise, and I...

Hope you're having a nice one, sis.

In case you ever find yourself thinking, as I sometimes do, that you miss being gainfully employed by someone else, here's a comic I sav...

Here's a little music video I made using an iPhone and a microKorg. It's at the beach on the island where our friend Johanna's p...

So, getting back to the whole "How can we integrate spiritual thinking into a culture whose worldview has become almost 100 percent emp...

Recently someone tipped me off to this incredible music blog, Hippies Before Priests . It's nothing but downloadable mixes of obscure an...

These crows are driving me crazy! Why do they bark incessantly at each other all day, right outside my window? I like birds as much as the n...