Uneasy Rhetoric

Wow, I’m positively verbose tonight! How’s that song go? “Twenty posts a waitin’ all bottled up inside him/he wasn’t holding nothin’ back, he let ‘em have it all…” (apologies to Kenny Rogers)
Seriously. A few weeks ago, Amanda invited me to become an author on My Urban Vista, or rather, I said [...]

The sign on the door appeared suddenly. It wasn’t there last Wednesday or Thursday when I was there last, but it was there this morning. Sticks: The New Cantonese is shutting its doors at the end of this week. They’ve lost their lease, and it sounds like they aren’t going to relocate.
This [...]

Urban Cartography posts about recently released 2000 Census data which shows that Sacramento grows by a whopping 100,000 people during the weekday. It’s a lot of people - almost a 25 percent increase - but if you think about it, it makes sense. Sacramento is surrounded by large and rapidly growing suburbs. [...]

In my previous post, I wrote about a little tit-a-tat over at Blue Oregon. Eyes for the Brambles expands on that a bit with some comments on 24 hour cable news (the Blue Oregon stuff was newspaper focused) and on self-publishing generally:
There are two points I want to make. One, before there were blogs [...]

First and foremost, bloggers are best at navel gazing. Most of us could tell you exactly how many strands of lint we have in our navels at any given time and could wax poetic about how they got there.
Joking aside, there is an excellent post over at Blue Oregon taking issue with a column [...]