Dr. Hunter S. Thompson Hallucinatory Wake
This Thursday our friend Patrick Hughes is helping to organize an hallucinatory wake for Hunter S. Thompson at the Edinburgh Castle with an amazing line-up…
Laughing Squid in SFist
SFist, is an excellent San Francisco Bay Area news and culture blog, that is published by Gothamist, an infamous New York blog. Jackson West, one…
SXSW 2005
I’ll be heading to Austin next week to attend South By Southwest. I’m going for the Interactive phase of the conference which is shaping up…
20 Years of Polkacide
Polkacide, San Francisco’s infamous hardcore polka band, turns twenty this year. They’ll be celebrating this momentous anniversary on Saturday, March 5th at The Bottom of…
WordPress 50,000
Matt just announced that WordPress 1.5 has already been downloaded over 50,000 times! Less than two weeks ago at the Upgrade Party, it had only…
Cookie Mongoloid
photo by Scott Beale The amazing Cookie Mongoloid, a Sesame Speed Metal band with a touch of Devo, will be touring the UK in April,…
Urban Iditarod
The 11th Annual Urban Iditarod takes place on March 5th, 2005 at noon in San Francisco. In the Alaskan Iditarod, more than sixty dog sled…
Jef Raskin
Jef Raskin passed away yesterday. Jef created the Macintosh project at Apple, along with the concept of “click-and-drag”. Over the years he made many other…
J.G. Ballard: Quotes
photo by Scott Beale Last night V. Vale of RE/Search hosted a round robin reading from his new book “J.G. Ballard: Quotes” at the legendary…
Power Tool Drag Races on Discovery
photo by Scott Beale Ladies and Gentleman, start your TiVo’s! Last year’s Power Tool Drag Races are going to be featured on a 4-part Discovery…