Entries from November 2007 ↓

The ass kickin’ will come later.

Reading this hunting magazine in a waiting room was so weird. The ads for bullets that “destroy bone and demolish intestines” were hard to believe. Then it occurred to me that these bone-destroying bullets were actually the more humane option when buying ammunition.

Then I just got sad.

Nashville Scene writer Tracy Moore arrested for vehicle-owner DUI. And the worst part? She had to listen to Puddle of Mudd.

Watch Frontline: Extraordinary Rendition

Abstinence programs don’t work: “Programs that focus exclusively on abstinence have not been shown to affect teenager sexual behavior, although they are eligible for tens of mil lions of dollars in federal grants, according to a study released by a nonpartisan group that seeks to reduce teen pregnancies.”

FBI Hoped to Follow Falafel Trail to Iranian Terrorists Here: “Like Hansel and Gretel hoping to follow their bread crumbs out of the forest, the FBI sifted through customer data collected by San Francisco-area grocery stores in 2005 and 2006, hoping that sales records of Middle Eastern food would lead to Iranian terrorists.” [via]

What is waterboarding?: His sufferings must be that of a man who is drowning, but cannot drown.”

I fell out of bed this morning and hit my armpit on a tall wicker hamper. Yesterday I mangled the inside of my mouth when my arm slipped while brushing my teeth. My friend says I should wear a helmet while at home, but I’m thinking the headgear should be a full-time precaution.

I spoke with Broadcasting & Cable reporter Mike Malone last week, and today his story was published. None of my quotes made it in, but it is a nice write-up nonetheless:

Brittney Gilbert, formerly the face of the progressive Web strategy at WKRN Nashville, is moving next week to the Bay Area to head up a new blog effort at KPIX. Perhaps the only fully professional local TV blogger in America, Gilbert will scour the San Francisco market’s numerous Web logs, highlight and comment on the more salient posts, and eventually oversee a blog aggregator representing what is typically a wide array of Bay Area passions and interests.

“We were talking internally about how to create content that helps separate us on the Web,” says KPIX Director of Internet Operations Jim Parker. “We were looking for a signature blogger who would make us unique from the other stations in the market.”

Read the rest.

I had a dream last night that I walked to the North Berkeley BART station, rode the train into the city, got off at the Embarcadero, then wandered around San Francisco lost as hell. I was nearly fired for missing my first day of work.