All about santa-cruz

Halloween debriefing

November 1, 2006

With all this talk about the Death of Newspapers going on and on and on, I started thinking, “What about the undead reporters?”

Best interview of the night?
Dick Cheney: He kept saying “It was a hunting accident, I swear.”
Then he pointed the plastic shotgun at me.
Video of all the chaos and skin that is Downtown [...]

Not that you asked for my opinion*

October 22, 2006

*In which I make another disingenuous attempt at a regular feature, reviewing several items that have come across my desk/eyes/ears in the last little while.

The Departed: Best Scorsese flick since GoodFellas, although some might debate the merits of this one vs. Gangs of New York.
This year’s Santa Cruz Marching Band Review: Substantially more peaceful than [...]

Newspapers: Make money online, minus the news

September 28, 2006

Who knows more about Santa Cruz, California than the Santa Cruz Sentinel?
Well, that’s debatable, but let’s put it another way: Who’s bothered to put together a modern, readable Santa Cruz site for tourists?
That’s right, the Santa Cruz Sentinel.
DestinationSantaCruz.com is live, and it looks like a damn good idea.

Build a site that has nothing to [...]

My trip to the Resource Recovery Facility and Recycling Center

June 6, 2006

[UPDATE: If you Google "santa cruz dump" then you find this post.  Funny how that works.]
First of all, it’s a dump.
Seriously.
What is this “Resource Recovery Facility and Recycling Center” you speak of, city of Santa Cruz?

Do you have any idea [...]

The Mystery Spot and other poorly-kept secrets

June 4, 2006

It took me almost three months to finish this roll of black & white film, (That’s the old stuff with the sprocket holes, kids.) but I like what I’ve got, despite having to run everything through a little extra photoshopping to get rid of some weird scanner gridlines that were overlaid on top of everything.
The [...]