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I made it in to San Francisco the other night to see Howe Gelb (known as Giant Sand Man in our house) play at Cafe Du Nord. For those who don't know, Cafe Du Nord is a fancy old speakeasy on upper Market St.   read more »  

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Alameda's Progressives have a history here in Alameda. In the 50's, "progress" meant surrounding The Island City w/ landfill, ranch homes, and a giant shopping plaza. These days, density is all the rage and Alameda progressives are blogging overtime for ways to "improve" Alameda and its inhabitants. After all, that 50's mentality has got to go!

Many old guard Alamedans fret w/ the threat of unrelenting, true-believing world improvers right here in A-town. Hell, it's True Believers that are the most dangerous (more-so than the bought-and-paid for shakers)... because it's conviction that drives them! Che and Mao and Bush all know they were right, and look at how they improved things for so many!

But back to Alameda's True Believers for Density, or shall we call them the Tool Believers (for Big Development?) There is no need to worry about them much anymore... at least for now. Sorry to be The Bearer, all of you well-meaning Tool Believers and your dreamy improvements for us all, but you have a major obstacle in front of you. And I offer you a solution where you can even make a BETTER difference and help more people than you ever imagined!!  read more »  

The phrase "Hardly Strictly Bluegrass" must have been inspired by the 90's Austin, Texas band Bad Livers.   read more »  

Today we attended WonderCon at Moscone Center in San Francisco. Apparently we did the right thing skipping Saturday -- 20,000 attendees!! Stars from the X-Files and other famous shows were there. We thought it was cool to see Lou Ferigno -- he still looks awesome.

We spent quite a bit of time there watching short films and film trailers (bring on Iron Man) and watching artists draw. Simon has a very keen interest in this. We wound up getting a Batman graphic novel and some custom Star Wars lego pieces.  read more »  

Mother Hips at the Starry Plough in BerkeleyHere's a basket of pics from this winter...  read more »  

For almost two years, my Superclean Web Design business has specialized in creating insanely robust AND totally customizable websites with Drupal, the open-source CMS platform.

I still get some purely identity/design projects but putting together empowerment tools for "boutique" businesses w/ specific needs (without the clutter of what they DON'T need) has proven to be a good approach for Superclean. We can create something sophisticated that is easy to use... and it even comes with instructions.  read more »  

The B-Rated section of this website has been neglected for a good long while, but I do have plans. I'm about to migrate everything to a new server (dubbed the SupercleanEngine) and taking it up there.   read more »  

The corporate media seems gets less creative all the time. I've always liked SFGate.com (the San Francisco Chronicle) but I despise their new design, which closely resembles CNN's new garish format.   read more »  

The Seattle Boegers (Peter, Catherine, and Zoe) just went down to visit Kirk (the lobster diver) and Cara Jo in the Virgin Islands.  read more »