An Open Letter to the American Apparel Creep

Mr. American Apparel, Hi there.  How are you?  You don’t know me, but we almost met a couple times when I worked at Grand Royal.  I liked what you were up to.  Shirts that actually fit, made in LA, taking good care of your employees.  Good on ya.  That’s powerful stuff.  Great idea, great execution [...]

Disaster in the LBC…

…or, How a 7am Skate Mission at the Long Beach Skate Park turns into a few days at Long Beach Memorial Hospital… …or, Why I Don’t Mind Paying for a Skate Park. Search the Concrete Disciples site for the Santa Monica Skate Park.  You’ll find scores of people complaining about the high fees and full [...]

One Block Radius at the Conga Room on Tuesday, You’re Going

Listen to me.  On Tuesday night you’ll be at the Conga Room.  RSVP now because you’re going.  One Block Radius is playing.  One Block Radius is Marty and Mr. Dope America from Scapegoat Wax, plus Z-Man (who also played the role of GINGERBREAD MAN in the amazing bay area candy-centric hip hop project of the [...]

2005 Air Guitar Nationals

[This post is for the couple of folks who were asking me for a review on Friday...] Julie and I lucked into two tickets to the 2005 Air Guitar USA Finals on Thursday night.  Having seen the Tom Sawyer Air Drummer somewhat recently, I was stoked to get an up-front view of the champions of [...]

Yahoo! Greasemonkey Scripts

After not 1, not 2, but THREE Y!-related Greasemonkey scripts found their way into my view today, I felt like it was worth posting about.  For those who don’t know, Greasemonkey is a scriptable Firefox plugin that allows programmers to actually change the content of the page you’re viewing in some way.  It’s one of [...]