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Nappy Roots is playing at the Red Devil Lounge on June 25. And even better, following Digital Underground on July 2, they’ve got Sir Mix-A-Lot on July 21. Amazing. I’m really tempted to get tickets to one of the latter two. I just bought tix for Mountain Goats (23rd) and for the Ted Leo show in September. Also for sure want to get tix to Daara J and Youssou N’Dour. And speaking of music, check out the Berkeley World Music…

What a steal.

June 4 – Sleater-Kinney – Warfield (SF) June 11 – Violent Femmes – Civic Center Plaza (SF) June 11 – Village People – Civic Center Plaza (SF) June 23/24 – The Mountain Goats – Bottom of the Hill (SF) June 25 – Nappy Roots – Red Devil Lounge (SF) July 2 – Digital Underground – Red Devil Lounge (SF) July 3 – Big Bad Voodoo Daddy – Stanfurd (Palo Alto) July 12 – Jason Mraz – Paramount Theatre (Oakland) July…

In case you missed it, the idiot-of-the-week award goes to Kirk Reynolds, former PR head of the 49ers. From the SF Chronicle, June 1, 2005: It was meant to be funny Ñ but no one is laughing now in the San Francisco 49ers’ front office over an in-house training film that featured off- color racial jokes, lesbian porn, a spoof of gay marriage and a trio of buxom, topless blondes frolicking with team public relations director Kirk Reynolds. The 15-minute…

I forgot to mention that I had an article in last week’s Daily Cal. My good buddy David Boyk is editing the Arts page over the summer, and he commissioned me to review a children’s book. I picked my favorite book of all time, Goodnight, Moon.

Well, I finally got Internet access (Thanks SBC!) a full five days ahead of schedule. WiFi is up, and is open. Time to catch up on The Daily Show. 🙂 This marks the end of my two week vacation since graduation. My goal was to have the house up and running by the end of two weeks, and I’ve done it. Gas is working, electricity is working, Internet is working. I still need to figure out the exterior lights. Any…

Lauren and Maria helped me pick out some sweet curtains, a cover for the sofa, pillows, shower curtain, carpet for the coffee table, candles, garden torches at IKEA yesterday. I’m hoping that I still gain some respect from my male friends even though I have strawberry, grapefruit and watermelon candles spread around the house. Picked up Boyk and Michelle today from OAK. El Ojo de Agua was had. Man, that taco truck is good. Chorizo is amazing. Gas was turned…

خیام، اگر ز باده مستی، خوش باش با لاله رخی اگر نشتی، خوش باش چون عاقبت کار جهان نیستی است انکار گه نیستی ، چوهستی خوش باش – خیام Khayyam, if you are drunk on wine, be happy If you smell the face of a tulip, be happy For the end of the world’s work is non-existence Imagine you were not, but you are — be happy – Khayyam

In case you missed it, France’s population has rejected the EU Constitution. I’m interested to read more analysis on this later. Back from Cincy. Good to see Dallas off. Good to be home, though. New kitchen sink tomorrow. Curtains with Maria/Lauren tomorrow. Gas is turned on Tuesday, but no Internet until June 7. WTF!?!? (Good thing for me, there’s WiFi at the Hudson Bay CafŽ nearby.) Party on Saturday. At least I got some freelance work to do. 🙂

Greetings from Cincy, where I’m helping my buddy Dallas pack up his apt in preparation for his move to France. I’ve never been to Jesusland before, save a car trip from LA to Atlanta when I was eight years old with my grandparents. I’ve spotted one W ’04 sticker, but not much else. I arrived yesterday morning for the first of my three day sojourn. Dallas picked me up at the Cincinnati airport (which is actually in Northern Kentucky). We…