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We can do it. The past two weekends, I’ve helped Rae film and photograph her documentary on Qiu Jin, a Chinese revolutionary and poet from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The week before, we did some scenes of Rae dressed up as Qiu Jin. This past Labor Day…

I still have yet to get MacOS X to boot properly on my new system. If I never boot into 9, then X works like a charm. The minute I restart the machine into 9, however, I can’t boot into X, getting this blue screen of death after the system…

In the month of June, 2001, I flew across the country to Rhode Island, where I attended the wedding of Clara and Mike. Along the way, I met up and hung out with a number of my classmates from Stanford. It’s certainly been a long time coming to write about…

Randy had arrived a few minutes earlier with some ice cream and cookie goodies that we were to eat later in the evening. I had prepared a steaming vat of Ma Po Tofu and pan fried scallops for dinner. Edna and Erik had already eaten, but so they didn’t eat…

I loaded up my car with a bevy of camera and video equipment on Friday night before driving to Oakland to meet up for dinner and planning. I realized that I need to get a new bag to hold all of my stuff, as it all adds up to a…

I was working on my computer late Thursday night when I received an instant message from Eric: eric: oh my god. adam: what? eric: I have a charcoal mask on. … adam: I’ll put my mask on… Apparently, Wendy put him up to the task of applying a charcoal masque…

Supriya recently returned to the United States after spending a year abroad in Israel. I didn’t know all that much about the history behind the political and social conflict of that area, but Supriya did an admirable job explaining it to me. I wonder if there ever will be peace…

I’m sitting here watching the handyman work on my window blinds at my place. It’s 7:11 am right now. I woke up up 6:00 am this morning, a time far too early to be fully conscious. Fortunately, I didn’t deprive myself of too much sleep, as I went to bed…

They don’t play double features in movie theaters these days, certainly not anywhere in the Bay Area that I know of. The fun began on Friday night after I got back from Vienna’s performance in Saratoga. I wanted to spend the morning and afternoon cleaning my house, so I got…