I am hugely grateful to still be alive, recent health scares notwithstanding.

I am grateful to Radio Free Phoenix for playing the hell out of Arlo Guthrie's "Alice's Restaurant Massacre" today, especially since the Playing of the Massacree was a Thanksgiving ritual in my household growing up ( Read more... )

Every Tuesday, Halcyon (35-year-old sweetly wacky Burner dude) goes to visit his very with-it 94-year-old grandfather and make a warm-and-fuzzy podcast of their worldwide group hug. Halloween fell on a Tuesday, so both of them donned very Burning Man costumes for their weekly HugNation broadcast. And it's just adorable. Don't be too cynical to ( Read more... )

I was feeling all warm and fuzzy about my little performance at the Siren open mic this evening ... until I became obsessed over whether I accidentally left out the extremely crucial "not" from the line "Those not born with Caucasian skin …" in this pieceI am going to assume that, since nobody threw rotten tomatoes or even hissed, that I did in ( Read more... )

I am so glad that, even though I no longer live in Seattle I can still hear your sublime transmissions.

(http://www.kexp.org, every Thor's Day night)

Just heard a corporate mouthpiece criticize CA Prop 89 (the Clean Elections initiative) by tagging its supporters--unions, the League of Women Voters, and similar groups representing the rank and file citizen workers--with the politically-charged term "special interests ( Read more... )

If you're reading this and live in the San Diego area--or will be visiting that area around Thanksgiving time--have I got a pie for you ( Read more... )

Blog number three? It's an addiction, I tell you ( Read more... )

Me, to my roommate's cat Randall, after he'd gotten under my feet/around my ankles/in my face for the umpteenth time in five minutes:

"Isn't there some setting on you somewhere between 'cute' and 'pest?'"

(Yes, I know it's an exercise in futility.)

Here, for your reading pleasure, are the pieces I performed at the second annual OUTspoken women's spoken word competition, held the previous two evenings at San Diego's GLBT-oriented Diversionary Theater. (All pieces (c) 2006 Ellen Terris Brenner)
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Had myself a faceful of most excellent primal musical release therapy just a few hours ago at the Mike Keneally jam show at Dizzy's here in San Diego ( Read more... )