Uneasy Rhetoric

Reed College, alma mater of Barbara Ehrenreich, Gary Snyder, and yours truly, bests the previous historical record by one month. A scholar, researching an article for the alumni rag, stumbled across an old recording in the Reed library of Alan Ginsburg reading the first section of “Howl.” This recording predates the previously believed-to-be-earliest recording by [...]

I was fortunate today to be working where I work. I strolled out onto Capital mall and waited for the cyclists to go by (sorry Maya, that’s where I was going, not for coffee). Waited 15 minutes for 30 seconds of fun, but oh what fun. I’ve never seen a live bike race before, so [...]

It’s been out for a week, but I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention that the California Budget Project released the latest edition of Locked Out (pdf), a report that looks at housing in California. Much of the news in it isn’t new, but it is useful to know the numbers behind some of the [...]

As the Amgen tour gets ready to roll through Sacramento (or at least the tiny part of it between the Tower Bridge and Capitol Mall), attention turns to bicycling. According to yesterday’s Bee, Sacramento ranks sixth among large cities in percentage of trips by bicycle. At 1.9 percent, Sacramento has a skosh over half as [...]