The Crucible’s Fire Arts Festival

This latter-week, West Oakland’s own hub of welders, smelters, steampunkers and assorted blowtorch-friendly hotties—The Crucible—hosts its 8th annual Fire Arts Festival. Last year’s festivities drew over 10,000 visitors, according to their reckoning, and I’m certain that this year’s “celebration of creativity through [...]

A Plea to End Non-Buyers Remorse

To the individual who beat me out by a long shot on the shiny shiny East West Musical Instruments Company silver lamé jacket last month, aka eBay bidder “**vintagemylove”:
I need that jacket.
No. I’m sorry. Let’s start again.
Never in my life have I been afflicted with such a burning case of Non-Buyers Remorse. I am positively [...]

Offering: Sock Puppet Carnage, Dance Moves

I’ve already received a lot of encouraging feedback in regard to my Stevie posting yesterday (note our first official comment!), so I thought I’d just go ahead and let a couple more of my music video cats out of the bag.
So this. Is. The. Macromantics. Apple Crumble. Video. In my former days working at various, [...]

Public Domain, Awesome Domain

In the course of researching ladies in profile sporting obscenely large Princess Leia jewelry, the same obsessive boat shape in lots of different colors with little bits of calligraphy beside each one, Virginia Woolf, Japanese pipe smoking beauties, and how to balance a tray of plastic fruit whilst modeling a curious bikini top, I recently [...]