Thursday September 28, 2006 |

Comedians for Jane!

Canvas Art Gallery
1200 9th Avenue @Lincoln
7-9pm
$10
Plus an afterparty to get your grown-folk on…

The All Star Line-Up:

• Ali Wong(host)
• Rusty Mahakian
• Stroy
• Nato Green
• Chris Garcia

NAPAWF Bay Area will be sponsoring and bringing out fierce API sisters to get the word out for NO on Prop 85.

About Incitement Excitement:

ALI WONG has got cameltoe, in different area codes.

RUSTY MAHAKIAN is a White man who speaks fluent Chinese, therefore he has a heart of imitation gold.

A Whoopi-Goldberg look-a-like and skater, STROY is one of the youngest cats in comedy with the most talent. See him before he blows up.

Founder and host of Iron Comic, NATO GREEN is San Francisco’s sole shining political comic. No surprise, as the man is a labor union organizer who wages class war on the MAN, on a daily basis.

An incredible riffer and soundmaker, CHRIS GARCIA will have you peeing in your pants.

After Party!

Duplex
1525 Mission @11th St
Get 2 for the price of 1 if you go to the comedy show!

In my email box, I’ve received no less than 10 job postings that people are sharing with each other in the hopes that the “i know a guy” or “i know a gal” nhing works to bring in good candidates and whatnot.

You, dear readers, are those superstar kindsa people aren’t you? Why yes you are.

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And no, I did not  run over a homeless person.

Nor did I hit a bunny.

And please, no jokes re: driving while Asian.  That’s *my* line, bitches.

Last night while driving on the freeway home from work, there was a fresh carcass on the road.  Something on the biggish side.  A dog or very large racoon or something like that.

I did NOT hit it.  I did NOT hit it.  I did NOT hit it.

Nope.

I just happened to be driving in the lane over from a car that *did* hit the carcass.

At such a velocity that bloody bits were propelled from that driver’s wheels onto the hood of my car.  I had a minor panic moment as I realized my moonroof was open too but, while the splatter was pretty high and significant, it wasn’t *that* high.

But yeah.

If that doesn’t make you go quadruple umlaut eeuuuueuuuuueuuu then I don’t know what could.

A city of manic depressive weather, high school robotics programs, gorgeous sunrises, and the kick ass team of peeps  @ Photobucket.

I’ve been told that everyone belongs to the mile high club in Denver.

Nice.

Because those airplane bathrooms are hella cramped.

With 2 days left for freedom until he’s back in the KLINK, awesomeness Josh Wolf puts out this video endorsement for Jane for School Board.

He asks for an absentee ballot to make sure he doesn’t miss the election.

Wow. Whatta pal.

 Click here to watch it

Peeps better not be sucka foo's and miss this fundraiser for him.

I’ve gotten out of the habit of writing/blogging/reading/etc.

And into the habit of reading on the can.

Current 3 reads include

Our Inner Ape – Frans De Waal

The Know it All – AJ Jacobs
Satanic Verses – Salmun Rushdie 

While the reading is good, I am a little rusty on the writing thing.
That’s going to be changing soon.

Sing Us a Song, Piano Man

Originally uploaded by kev/null.

Last night seriously rawked.

Just a quick note to say thanks to everyone who came out tonight! We raised the roof and some bling for our candidate Ms. Jane and had a blast while doing it.

• Jay – http://www.mochamonkey.com
• Josh – http://www.joshwolf.net
• Jonathan – http://www.hazmatgames.com
• Jonathan – http://www.thejof.com
• Eugene – http://www.eekim.com
• Winona – http://www.winonatong.com
• Kevin – http://www.kevnull.com
• Kurt – http://www.discolorations.net
• Jeremy – http://www.cyworld.com
• Lindsi – She’s sneaky and will kick my ass if I post her link
• Roshan – http://www.randumbness.com
• Scott
• Chris
• Dean – http://www.flickr.com/photos/head-zoo-keeper
• Matt – http://www.photomatt.net
• Glenda – http://www.agendacide.com
• Sanford – http://www.stirr.net
• Michaela – http://www.piczo.com
  
• Dave – http://www.myspace.com/davejamesmusic

And bless me if I forgot anyone but you know I got mad love for you. You peeps totally rawk. The highlight for the evening will be our closing song of the Piano Man where us all singing on stage outnumbered the peeps in the audience by bunches and bunches.

://upcoming.org/event/102068/

Meet Jane Kim (http://www.janekim.org)  (SF/Greenparty/SchoolboardCandidate/Blogger/Kickass)
She’s a smart, dedicated, and passionate individual who’s keen on making changes within the SF School District.
And yup. She blogs. And better yet, she wants to meet bloggers in SF who want to learn more about what’s going on with the schoolboard.

Please come on out and pass the word along!!!!Meet janekim.org: Bloggers 4 Jane
Tuesday, September 12th
9pm at G3
3910 Geary Boulevard at 3rd Avenue

For all you nightcrawlers and writers out there. Come to mingle, karoake and geek out. Wifi available. BYOL! (Bring Your Own Laptop)

Our FUNdraising efforts will include Karaoke.  Don’t freak out. You can always get out of singing. We swear.

Karaoke Car Crash
Want to sing? $1
Want to make someone else sing? $2 +
Want to get out of being forced to sing? $4 +

Blog about the event before you come to bring out more bloggers if you can. Definitely blog about the candidate.
Paypal Donations to treasurer @ janekim.org

I’ll start a collection of $200 to make Jane sing “I believe the Children are Our Future”
Because that’s awesomely cheesetastic.

Also! I challenge Josh Wolf to sing Aretha Franklin’s Think” Freedom…. Freedom…. Freedom… FREEDOM!!!

I admit that I’m not a native San Franciscan.

But by virtue of having lived in the bay area the last 10 years, I’ve felt madly akin and invigorated by the energy and serendipitous opportunities and mischief that this city has provided for me.

I mean, having grown up in Livonia, Michigan my whole life previous — i know what the midwest mentality is. The lifestyle. The mostly myopic ambitions. (erm. lack of). The strip malls. The utter middle midwest mediocrity at it’s best. On the rare occasions (like yesterday when I met Alexandra and her husband Les) that I meet another person from Livonia I exclaim with joy “Oh My gawd! How awesome! Livonia girls are the best. Am I not the best? Is she not the best? Holy Crap! You! Me! His Name is Alive. The best 3 things to have gotten out off LIvonia!”

You may recall me opining that my general angst and a good portion of my fear of generic mainstream authority (read – old tall white men) comes from growing up in Livonia. Livonia – oh town of my home. US Census 2000 Whitest Town in America. How dear thou art – sorta. And how much do I upset the balance of diversity when I come home to visit my parents? Do tell. Oh yeah, you can’t. You’re too busy at the Outback Steakhouse that’s oooo so nifty and chic in town now.

But seriously, Livonia was good to me. I grew up there. I felt safe there. I scampered by myself often in the parks, felt safe enough being alone walking about, and never felt a moment of terror for living in the city and being out after dusk. Enough so that I ran away from home 3 times before I hit puberty. (The first time was with a blanket, teddybear, a red Lacoste jacket. good shoes and a heating pad. Yes. A heating pad. I figured I could sneak into people’s back yards and plug in to their outside electrical sockets)

But San Francisco – Oh San Francisco.

Last night I attended the Hyperscope 1.0 launch event which blew my mind wide open and reminded me of the passion, intensity, commitment and brilliance that comes together within the bay area. This event was this inspirational confluence of academia, social intelligence, technology, and compassion for world goals. I felt like I was in the presence of a historically groundbreaking moment. My. God.

I am so very proud of my friend Eugene’s efforts as involved with the project along with the luminaries.

The Team? (from the site)

• Doug Engelbart, resident visionary
• Brad Neuberg, crack coder and browser guru
• Jonathan Cheyer, knows more about Augment than anyone else under 35
• Christina Engelbart, the bridge between the old and the new
• Eugene Eric Kim, project liaison and collaboration guru who keeps everybody from chasing their own tails

My good pal Alex Russel, whom I’ve always appreciated as a very good egg since we first met a few years back, also contributed mad ninja dojo skills as I understand it.

Now, as I’m not so much a technologist as a fan of technologists and geeks, I felt woefully stunned and overwhelmed by the brainpower in the room.  But you know what? These people, these marvelous people making changes to the world? I also call them my friends.  It’s so randomly fascinating for me to talk to friends in other cities – completely outside of the tech industry and the bay’s incestuous and inescapable tech/web/2pointwhateverness scene talk about services online that they love and being able to think to myself or say “Hey – you know I know them. I’ll pass the kudos along.  I’ve sat in a hottub with them. Omg, I think I kissed someone who worked on that. Omg, I know I’ve kissed someone who’s worked on that. Haha, did you know that such and such person on that company’s team has a mad sweet tooth? Or plays the banjo? or still has their girlfriend’s photo on the front page of that website that gets several hundreds of thousands of hits a month? Isn’t that funny? I know them? They’re my friends. THey’re regular people? I like them? They are awesome and I think they like me too?

And then I  have a  moment of – and so what the hellabytes am I doing with my life?

And then I think to myself – well — there’s still a little bit of Livonia left in me afterall.

But then again it really isn’t as bad as all that.

Tonight I spent some delicious timem and a little bit too much money in visiting with my friend Nguyen Qui Duc who will be moving to Vietnam soon.  The time, I regret not. The money, neither.  For I will soon have in my possession some gorgeous art that this brilliant friend has created.  He promises, also, to cook for Jane and I before he heads out.

For such a luminary, on the night of his fantastic gallery toast/roast/sendoff to give me a warm hug and say “So how’s that book coming along. I must introduce you to someone” and give me the most buoyantly kind support and encouragement — well.

I can say that I’m blessed.

Tonight I had a discussion tonight about faith. It was highly unexpected.  The person I was speaking to questioned why I still had faith in God. How I could believe in such a benevolent being. How I could not hate someone who was clearly so inaccessible or distant from his people to allow for such shame and pain and detritus and regret in the world for people.

I didn’t have much of a response except to say …

“The fact that you are so wildly passionate about knowing justice in your heart. And recognizing that you see that things aren’t right in the world and that you want them to be better. The fact that you aren’t resigned or… despaired in a world where everything is inconsiquential.  That.  That to me proves that there is a God.”

So yes.

In 48 hours I’ve experienced a wide scope of things that have made me feel so … right about who I am and where I am in my life and the affirmations of each experience as it spills over me.  I’ve felt wildy reminded of why life.is.so.very.very.good.

Ok.

So as of this morning, this is the 3rd time in the last 2 months that my email domain has been spoofed to send out spam.

I have officially received over 7,000 bounceback msgs in the last 24 hours.

So pardon as I dig through and sift through my email so that I can clean this up.
Crap.

I hate being a victim like this. Again.

Climbing Down

Originally uploaded by kev/null.

Kevin took this dope picture of me & eris climing down Mt. CampCamp a couple weeks back.

This was before I fell on my ass, I think.

There will be no photos of the monstrous bruise on my tuckus. however.

I gotta say, it was the most *nature* experience I’ve had in my life.

* Navigating accross a stream
* A climb up a 14 story tall rocky hill
* Up to a trail for a few hours hike to a point with absolutely no noise of civilization whatsoever (it was quite awesome)
* Trying to scale down a dried up waterfall
* Several attempts to cross a stream wtih pretty rigorous rapids
* Nearly being swept a bit by the river
* Playing balance beam walking on loads of fallen trees

and then 4 hours later, finally making it back.

Big. Awesome. Nature.

You know what makes me delightfully happy today?

Listening to the Discovery Channel’s podcasts on Pirates.

Part 1 – Pirate Life

Part 2 – Pirate Attack

Part 3 – Female Pirates

Part 4 – The Buccaneers

Woooot!

Killer

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