Category: entertainment
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Poetry: Spread the Word and 30 Poets 30 Days — Happy National Poetry Month!
April is National Poetry Month, and my brother Greg has a couple of things going on. Here’s his summary of the Poetry: Spread the Word Kickstarter project: If Poetry: Spread the Word is funded, over the course of the next year (roughly May, 2011 through April, 2012), I will put 100 original poems up on…
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Time to celebrate!
November was such a busy month that I didn’t do any journalling. But now, with the draft of g0ddesses.net wrapped up, it seems like a good time start up again. So … Wow, what a month. I wrote a novel! Well, at least a draft of one … 75,000 words. g0ddesses.net needs a lot of…
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Dinner with D (part 0 of g0ddesses.net)
“Hellrazr and Nemesis is working with a startup for an interim interim CEO. Are you interested? If so, I’m going to be in Seattle Saturday night. Are you free for dinner?†Interim interim CEO didn’t seem like a particularly empowered job so my first reaction was that I probably wasn’t interested … but hey, never…
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g0ddesses.net: org chart and cap table
My novel g0ddesses.net is set in the Silicon Valley startup scene and there is a some corporate drama behind it, so I want to make sure that the organization and ownership stakes make sense. Here’s what I’m currently thinking … feedback welcome!
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Tales from underground: HOTwired Seattle!
This’ll be the first time we’ve been to Seattle’s psytrance monthly HOTwired since it moved to Waid’s a couple of months ago. Aminata and Osiris Indriya, Lara, Blue Spectral Monkey … and it goes to 4 a.m. w00t! Time to dance!!!!!
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Notes from underground: Beat University @ Supperclub
From Pyramind’s announcement: Beat University is a non-profit partnership between San Francisco institutions Pyramind, LoveFest and Supperclub to raise money for the only dedicated electronic music scholarship fund in the entire U.S. The quarterly series of electro, house, and trance parties at top dance venue Supperclub will donate all of its proceeds to help up-and-coming…
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How’d that one get by QA: Z2K
Ya can’t make stuff like this up. From Ginny Mies at PC World: Picture this: You’re gearing up to create a killer playlist on your 30GB Zune for your annual New Year’s bash. All of a sudden, your Zune locks up, reboots itself, and freezes. What the heck is going on? Fox News picks up…
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Poetry friday!
Kelly Herrold has her weekly Poetry Friday post up on Big A little A , with tons of good links and more in the comments. My brother Gregory K’s posted (with permission of course) an original J. Patrick Lewis poem, A Sixth Grader Sees the Future … for those who don’t know the kids poetry…
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Best baseball movie ever? Don’t delay, vote today!
MLB.com says, “It’s March, time for madness and brackets and… baseball movies!” Fans can choose “the best baseball flick ever” from 64 possibilities in four categories — Comedy, Drama, Old School and Left Field. My brother’s movie, Little Big League, is in “Left Field”, up against The Hank Greenberg Story in the first round, and…
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Kinetic 3, at the Pacific Science Center
Dancing with the dinos … how cool is that? Infinite Connections does a great job with these parties. As always, nwtekno has the details. I’m psyched!
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“If Ann Coulter had liveblogged the Gettysburg Address”
by Mark Kleinam on The Reality Based Community: Old Abe is approaching the podium, looking even more like a badly-dressed and ill-proportioned scarecrow suffering from a depressive disorder than he usually does. I mean, if you’re going to be an empty suit, couldn’t you at least find a suit that fits? And as usual, he’s…
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Oddaptation: Horton Hears a Who
My brother, aka Gregory K of Gottabook (best known for his Fibs) also does Oddaptations, which he describes as “Cliff’s Notes/Spark notes of picture books… but with some attitude (and rhyme) thrown in.” Here’s the start of his latest, which I’d describe as something of a Seussian mashup: HORTON HEARS A WHO by Dr. Seuss…