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Ryan Sholin

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  • Luck of the Irish Pub Concept

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    Rosie McCann’s Irish Pub & Restaurant (my now former employer – more on that in a moment) has won Best Bar in the annual Santa Cruz Good Times Best Of issue. The GT is an alternative weekly…well, less alternative than the Metro, which isn’t that alternative to begin with. The point is – we won.…

  • School Is Hell: Lesson 19

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    Found this old Matt Groening cartoon while researching an article I’m writing on a certain local cartoonist.

  • ExxonMobil Fears Reality-Based Community

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    I came home today to a fresh issue of Mother Jones, including a look at global warming from several angles. Here’s Bill McKibben in the introduction to the report on how the energy industry (read ExxonMobil) has worked to denigrate actual science for years: The strategy turned out to be simple: Cloud the issue as…

  • Following the Hughtrain

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    Over at gapingvoid, Hugh MacLeod is saying something about Technorati, but I’m not really paying attention as I’m too busy cracking up.

  • Off The Map

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    I promise this will be the last time I plug this movie, but I finally saw Off The Map this weekend at the Del Mar in Santa Cruz. Hey Campbell Scott: good job! When we were making this movie (which Campbell directed), I never thought it would be as funny as it turned out. That’s…

  • In San Francisco Today

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    I am now an official cliche. I am sitting in a Starbuck’s in San Francisco with my notebook computer hooked up to the wireless, and I am blogging. Ugh. If it can get any sillier, Leonard Cohen is on their stereo satellite radio. A few amusing sightings today, but given my city years, it takes…

  • Still In Recovery Mode

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    We’re no wild party people, but I am still recovering from the lack of sleep and sensory onslaught of hanging out in Vegas for a few days. The coolest part of the whole thing was seeing my mom give her presentation at WPPI in front of 200-300 people. These people were taking notes. I’m not…

  • St. Pat’s Day Survival Report

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    Maybe I shouldn’t have been so flippant in recalling my music video days yesterday. I ended up spending the copious majority of 15 hours behind the bar yesterday. I don’t have too much green dye on my hands though, so that’s a plus. And yes, the first phone call of the day was the ubiquitous…

  • Jerry Brown gets all “hyphee”

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    Jerry Brown, Oakland Mayor and my favorite blogging politician, is teaching me a bunch of Bay Area urban slang. I feel so nineteen-ninety-now when I think of everything I’ve missed being this far away from the hip-hop game. The last music video I ever worked on was Fabolous’ first big hit. So Mayor Brown’s rant…

  • Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

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    Once again, I will be behind the bar today at Rosie McCann’s in Santa Cruz serving all the amateurs wanna-be Irishmen fine citizens of this town and its outlying areas. Have fun, don’t drive drunk, and try not to speak with a brogue if you’re not Irish. Yes, we serve Corned Beef and Cabbage. We…