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More than I had expected, the HOPE conference turned out to be impeccably run, packed with interesting information, aflood with old friends and new, and another enjoyable experience for giving speeches and jumping on stage to say the usual stuff I say. Before I go into any details, I better get one aspect of the […]
Throw That Bathtub! More details on my HOPE weekend tomorrow.
“This guy needs an editor, Ritalin and a mirror. Not long ago, when a speaker combined marginal grooming with too-urgent, rambling & vulgar speechifying, he likely would have been dismissed as brain-addled, or a kook…or maybe a drunk. Nowadays, when the same disheveled, semi-coherent guy wangles a speaking gig at even a 3rd-tier industry event […]
I got a nice letter in the mail today. Hi, I may be contacting the wrong person, but were you involved in the production of a short called “Conspiracy Rock” about the JFK assassination? I loved that and have been looking for a copy of it for years. Are copies available? What’s touching about this […]
My XBOX gamer tag is “Sketch the Cow” and this causes some confusion. My IRC handle is “SketchCow” and it’s being used to say the same thing and to get around length restrictions. But it’s meant to be “Sketch the Cow” as well. Very occasionally, people wonder what the hell is going on, so here’s […]
con·tempt (kn-tmpt) n. The feeling or attitude of regarding someone or something as inferior, base, or worthless; scorn. A danger of observation and collecting of data is that you end up finding meta-situations; perhaps you realize that in the end, all skateboarding is performance art, and then you realize that all athletic endeavors are performance […]
As I progressed farther down the path of the BBS Documentary project, I started to consider where to take the textfiles.com project next. I’d been running it for nearly 8 years, of which 3-4 of them were involving the documentary itself. Obviously, the project should continue the process of providing history, historical context, and other […]