Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping

“The activists call us performers, the performers call us artists, and the artists call us clowns,” said Bill Talen (the Reverend Billy) last night at the SF DocFest showing of What Would Jesus Buy? a documentary produced by Morgan Spurlock (of Super Size Me fame).
As a former Calvinist, Talen said it was a stretch to [...]

Documentary-licious

Lots o’ docs coming up this month (and next):
*at CCSF on Wednesday, September 26, 7pm in Rosenberg Library, Rm. 304–director Les Blank with Gina Leibrecht showing their new film All In This Tea, a doc on what goes into your cup and where it comes from
*Friday, Sept. 28 at the Roxie will be the start [...]

Fascinatin’ rhythm

So at one of my jobs, I sit at a desk that faces out of the library through glass doors into the “lobby” area. The library is so small and so quiet that, when a cell phone rings, you know immediately who has it. Basically, people just take their phone call outside to [...]

Quaker guilt?

I’ve been pondering this one for a while–is there such a thing? Somehow, I seem to also ascribe a “saving grace” to preserve my own desire for whatever I feel guilt about. If there were a list of things I feel guilt about include:

Enjoying my motorcycle too much (guilt: gas/environmental impact/pollution; saving grace: [...]

St. Bernard Project needs you!

This is per an SOS call from one of the founders, Zack Rosenburg, who sent a request for volunteers to me via email…
“We hope that the world is treating you well. We write to ask for your help. And no, we are not asking for money. We are in desperate need of [...]