Earshot PresentsAnother Place to Spend Your Time

Having been on my block for a full year now, it’s fun to see certain things coming back into bloom in the same places where they first impressed me last year. The giant magnolia flowers mid-block are back. And so is my favorite perennial delight–a house down the block covered with what Brad has identified [...]

On Wednesday of last week, a week that was already super shitty, I came home to an infestation of bees coming in and out of a small gap in the siding of my building, directly above my door. I called my landlord who said she’d drop by with some spray. When my upstairs neighbor came [...]

The purpose of this post it to create a search hit for SWED-FORM, a Swedish manufacturer of furniture from the late 1960s. I came upon my SWED-FORM couch after perusing the free section of Craigs List in Oakland, CA. A couple had put their old couch at the curb and posted the CL ad. For [...]

My good friends the Sieberts chronicled the progress of Jessica’s pregnancy with a photo session every Sunday morning. Coincidentally, Sophia Noelle Siebert, my beautiful goddaughter, was born on a Sunday morning (the 13th of September, 2009). Around that time, Erik handed off the Sunday morning photo series and a fitting Velvet Underground song on a [...]

The Hog Harvest Hoedown took place on August 22nd, 2009 in St. Helena, CA. Humphrey the Pig fed over 100 people and Toshio Hirano entertained with classic country and “old timey” cover tunes. Later on, Doug Streblow and his buddy Sean played a great set and Brad finally bid us all adieu with a heart-warming [...]

Kevin Barischoolteacher’s recipe for BariSuitcase Dip was submitted to Earshot Presents by Ethan Covey and John Basile. Recently, during Ethan’s visit from New York City, we were playing frisbee golf with our friends Kevin Barischoolteacher and Vince. As we were leaving Golden Gate Park, Kevin was nice enough to share a secret recipe with us. [...]

Last week, Ethan and I worked an event at the San Francisco Hyatt Regency, the hotel featured in the 1975 Mel Brooks classic, High Anxiety. The hotel hasn’t changed at all since ’75. Here’s a clip from the movie.

As a self-employed person trying to keep my head above water “in this economy”, I’m continually impressed with and inspired by people who have so much more than I have on the line who have decided, “Fuck it. I’m going to start my own thing”. I became self employed last year almost by accident, and [...]

After seeing and hearing a lot of great reviews and media hype, I went and saw Up tonight (in 3D!) with my friend Shayna. Two very cool inclusions by the directors and writers of Up made the Pixar film particularly enjoyable. The first treat in Up was the name-dropping of an Oakland ice cream parlor [...]

Over Christmas 2007, I surprised my father by changing his iMac’s desktop image

http://twitpic.com/4yrnn – Woz playing gameboy at dead show