I’m learning that Twitter might be very attractive to people, like me, who compulsively think little thoughts throughout the day. In the past, those thoughts might have died a near-instantaneous death, like muons or something, but now they can be flicked into Twitter instead. You can find me there under the clever, mysterious handle of … Read more
My dear friend Scott Rosenberg has written a great book, titled Say Everything: How Blogging Began, What It’s Becoming, and Why It Matters. Due from Crown (which also published his wonderful first book, Dreaming in Code) in July, it’s bound to instantly become the definitive account of weblog history. (If you know of my background … Read more
For the past month or so, I have been working on my first ever commissioned piece: Andy Warhol: Good for the Jews? Running from — yikes! — Jan. 10-18 at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco (which commissioned the work), it will be my personal response to one of their current exhibits: Warhol’s Jews: … Read more
My hamstrings are either way tight or way short, depending on who’s describing them. I like to go with “tight,” which also happens to be a term of appreciation in my son’s crowd. The result of this tightness is that (like all Kornbluths) I walk kind of funny (bouncing on my toes) and have chronic … Read more
My son and I biked down to the great East Bay Vivarium reptile store in Berkeley the other day. Our snake, Snakey, was out of mice. (We feed her frozen mice, after thawing them out. Naturally, we keep these mice cubes [if you will] in the freezer — so everything in the freezer tends to … Read more