Article(s):Ancient Mariner and Bride Wore Green

I have a couple of articles coming out. In the most recent issue of Bay Nature, I wrote an article looking at the Pacific leatherback turtle. This amazing turtle–the biggest turtle in the world, in fact–migrates through the Bay Area…

Article: ICE Raids

I have an article in the most recent North Bay Bohemian on ICE’s raids of Marin County apartment complexes. If you haven’t heard, ICE is sweeping Bay Area apartment complexes to arrest illegal immigrants, but they are also using the…

Article: Powder-puff girls

Are our cosmetics safe? Some people say no. Increasingly, experts are looking to the chemicals in make-up for the answers to cancer rates and other health problems. Personally, I don’t think there’s anything to worry about–especially if you don’t wear…

Come See Us Read

Dear Friends, I hope you can make it to the Word Pirates reading tomorrow night. Marcia and I have been working really hard to make it awesome. I will be reading an essay. Here are the details: Petaluma, Calif., May…

Article: Madness: A Bipolar Life

My book review of Marya Hornbacher’s Madness: A Bipolar Life is up at PopMatters. Excerpt: In 1998, Marya Hornbacher wrote Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia, about an eating disorder so severe, she whittled herself down to 52 pounds…

Article(s): Anne Lamott and Billy Collins

I have the cover story in the Pacific Sun this week. I interviewed novelist Anne Lamott and playwrights Laurel Graver and Ann Brebner about the adaptation of Lamott’s novel, Hard Laughter, into a play. I really enjoyed writing this one–all…

Bedspread Done!

Once I painted the guest room, I began the search for a comforter or duvet for the bed in there. I discovered that comforters are: a. Expensive b. Ugly The ones I liked were, without exception, over $230–a good deal…

Kyle’s Google Talk

Yesterday, Kyle was invited to speak at Google about remastering Knoppix. Here is a video of his speech. If you have used Knoppix long enough, you have probably eventually decided you would like to tweak it to add a setting…

Kyle Speaks, Again!

Kyle will be speaking: at Google on Thursday, April 10 at Penguicon at the end of April at LinuxWorld next August. … and possibly others. I probably won’t go to any of these talk. For one thing, two of them…