The Nervous Breakdown [SF event]

If my schedule allows tomorrow, I am going to try to hit up this event at The Make Out Room.

The Nervous Breakdown

via SFWeekly.com:

Penny For Your Thoughts
By Hiya Swanhuyser

If you're a woman who has ever leaned toward punk, you've either worshipped her or secretly hoped someone like her existed: Penelope Houston is an international icon. Not just as the lead singer of the Avengers, the band famous for the song "The American in Me," either, although the pictures of her in the early days of punk are as punk as anything else -- young, intelligent, infuriated, leather-jacketed. But in the rather many ensuing years, she's done nothing but continue to be admirable, in the form of taking on a new musical genre that's really hard to define: Mod-folk, maybe, or heartfelt go-go New Wave film soundtrack, with autoharp. Tonight, she reads at The Nervous Breakdown series, along with Johnny Genocide aka Hugh Thomas Patterson, Stephen Elliott, Paul Clayton, Lauren Becker, and Thomas Wood.

Literary Events

Make-Out Room
3225 22nd St. (at Mission); San Francisco CA

William Ayers in San Francisco.

I'm disappointed I missed William Ayers last night at The Green Arcade in San Francisco.

I was first introduced to William Ayers via his involvement in the Weather Underground, a 1960's militant student political organization.

The Brilliance that is Royce Reed.

Dog vs. Cat. [cat wins]

This video is brilliant. A cat and dog of generally equal proportions get into a fight. The dog gets slap happy and hyper, even going so far as to hump the perturbed cat, while the cat just waits, annoyed, for the dog to finish his dance and then ends the fight by bitch slapping the dog in the face and walking away.

If felines' vocal chords were developed to the point that they could speak, this cat most definitely said, "fuck you, assbitch."

Seven-Year-Old Japanese Boy Covers "Jesus of Suburbia" on Guitar

Meet Reku, a seven-year-old Japanese child who is learning English through playing the guitar. Music is the one common language we all speak, and it's so awesome so see this kid so passionate about something at such a young age.

94-Yr-Old Woman Graduates from College [touching story]

This is a touching story. A 94-year-old Oakland woman, Hazel Soares, just received her BA in art history from Mill's College in Oakland.

She is believed to be the second oldest person in the world to graduate from college, second to Nola Ochs, a woman who graduated from Fort Hays State University in Kansas three years ago at the age of 95. You go, girl!

Hazel is a living example of the "it's never too late to realize your dreams" mindset.

Video Games through the Ages.

I really want the Magnavox Odyssey and the Telstar. Like mad.





The Telstar is "the most exciting game you will ever see on your TV ," don't you know?



Also, I would feel it almost blasphemous if I didn't mention the Atari. I had an Atari. I had an Atari because I was bad ass.