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   "Actions must be followed through to their completion. Whatever the beginning, the end will be beautiful. Only inaction is infamous."

-Jean Genet, Journal du Voleur
   Driving on the 880 has changed my sense of the road. Instead of tracking individual other cars around me for many miles like I used to, I look at the thick bunches of cars and see ( Read more... )

   I moved to 45th Street in Oakland proper, 4 blocks away from my old place. I have more news than that. My sister Dawn got married in July, and it was great; it brought my whole family together. My sister Jennifer recently got her Master's and came home to stay with my folks for a while. I personally am pleased with that, but she has mixed ( Read more... )

   The other week I was distractedly browsing a bookstore and picked up a pulp novel from the shelf where it had been sitting among a bunch of similar looking titles, all apparently by the same author ( Read more... )

This is a good day. I liked the closing benediction.

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   I've been reading Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist and I can't put it down. I got to recommend it to anyone who enjoys young adult fiction. It cheered me up after working far too long and taking bart back from Fremont at 8pm. I could barely focus my eyes when I started but it made me happy. I have no idea about the movie but the book is good.

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   Ice helps lots, but sometimes it's too cold. This morning has been Gossip Girl and now Top Hat, with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. I did get one phone call, from Amy, but she hung up and I must assume it was a mistake. This ice is very cold ( Read more... )

"And now that I've sufficiently confused you, I've got to get going."
   Tonight's movie is "In a Lonely Place" (1950, Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame). Dinner is Amazona's pizza, large, with jalapenos and pineapple. And Tecate. I don't know why anyone would tolerate the protagonist, Dixon Steele. The events in the film are disturbing, but he's cold ( Read more... )