My brother Jacob and I — who only a few short years ago collaborated on the movie Haiku Tunnel — are now working on another film, titled Love & Taxes. It’s a sequel, of sorts, to Haiku, since it also stars me and will have many of the wonderful people working on it who were … Read more
Tonight I’ll be attending a meeting of the Berkeley City Council, which is scheduled to discuss the latest revision of Berkeley’s Climate Action Plan (CAP). Apparently there will be a lot of opposition voiced against the plan, as it will require Berkeley homeowners to bring their houses into conformity with rules designed to maximize heat … Read more
Given my self-documented misadventures in the bowels of the U.S. tax system, it should come as little surprise that I am late in filing even this little blog item about tax stuff. In fact, I’d count it as a victory that I’m posting it so soon after Tax Day. Back on the 15th, people had … Read more
I briefly stick my nose above the surface of Buber-reading and script-doctoring to mention that I’ll be doing an improvisation this Thursday, March, 26, at 7 p.m. at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco. It’ll probably last one hour, and may or may not be in the gorgeous, asymmetrical “Yud” room. Click here for … Read more
… is a small person I’ve been visualizing each time I think of Tiny Url. Use of the latter, in turn, seems key to maximizing the communication powers of Twitter. Let’s say I want to Twitter (“tweet”?) that a live set by the Norwegian rocker Ida (pronounced “EE-da”) Maria on KCRW.com has given me and … Read more