Barakonomics
A short argument as to how Barak Obama represents the failure of American Democracy.
Playing w/ the Aperture Setting
I figured out how to turn up the aperture setting on my camera and began shooting in RAW format. This allows me much more control in the editing process. I met this couple after I took their picture. Their names escape me now. (Couple, when you find my site, you can put your names in [...]
Shooting for the New Fillmore
“Are you a freelance photographer?” A woman asked me yesterday as I was taking pictures at the Fillmore Farmer’s Market. I sent Thomas Reynolds, who owns a local art gallery, a few of the pictures I took of the jazz musicians on my street last month and he liked them enough to ask me to [...]
Thompson on the radio
The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.
–Hunter S. Thompson
My favorite man to quote, this [...]
Downtown Chess
San Francisco
5:00 p.m.
It looked like a game of chess in the park to an outsider.
It was a money game.
1 takes $2.
$3 for the second.
“One dollar to the house.”
On one table a short Chinese man laughs with intent, his eyes flash the gaze of a crazed homeless man.
On the one in front of me,
an old man [...]
Winter Soldier
At KPFA on Tuesday my original assignment did not work out. The government offices that I needed to contact for my story on federal vouchers in Contra Costa County in the East Bay were all closed for Veteran’s Day. I could track down no housing activists. The one lady that I did speak to is [...]
My First Radio Story!
This is my first “reporter’s piece.” That means I was given an assignment, usually just a small clip or announcement, and then I decide who to call and what to ask. I record the interviews, edit the audio and then write the story. I write the anchor’s intro (not included here) and then once my [...]
What would the US Bailout look like in Argentina?
Read Naomi Klein’s Story “The New Trough” in Rolling Stone.
The picture on the Rolling Stone page says it all. Except that the money the pigs are eating is our social security, our investment plan for a green economy, and our health care coverage. This men deserve to be hung in public.
As I read it, I [...]
An election note; amendment to Weathermen
On the Weathermen piece, the propositions to decriminalize prostitutes and begin the process of municipalizing the energy company failed. The bastards with money enough to waste and hatred enough to care defined marriage as union between a man and a woman. So, San Francisco is not as liberal as I maybe thought. Wealth has a [...]
The Weathermen; what would it take to take up arms against your own government?
That was the metaphysical question that underpinned the historical probing of Latin American Revolutions. Francisco Barbosa posed it to our small class. His was one of the few classes on campuses in which I felt a kindred spirit in the class. They were misfits, awkward, foreign born, hidden, obscured and peripheral to the production-line breed [...]