Author Archives: Jonathan Sterne
Retroactive Hiatus Declaration
Oops. It’s been a month. Sorry! I’ll be back. Santa Barbara is beautiful. The Center is beautiful. Tomorrow, we head off to Vancouver where we will stay at the Sylvia and I will talk at the Surrey Art Gallery. I’m sure they’re beautiful.
A snapshot of Carrie’s rant when I told her I thought I was drinking too much caffeine since arriving here. . .
Welcome to the real world. You’ve been living in some nature-fairy land while the rest of us have been drugging ourselves since the age of 16 just to get by. You don’t smoke and you hardly drink and now you’re all like “Ooooo! Two cups of tea in the morning!” It’s probably funnier to hear …
Strategic Default — The Personal and the Social
A couple doors down from the condo we rent, there’s another condo that’s probably exactly like ours. Except that there’s a lockbox on the door. We don’t know who put it there. There is no “for sale” sign and no sign of anyone coming in and out. A couple weeks ago, there was a letter …
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At last! A lo-boy record!
I’m used to books taking many years to finish, but lo-boy three has taken much longer than we expected when we laid down most of the tracks in the summer of 2004. “Six years in the making” is overselling and pretentious — especially since it spent most of those six years languishing on hard drives …
Varia
Yet another overdue entry. Life has a way of being busy even when it’s not. Or rather, we don’t have a ton of unstructured time. Last week, our path takes us a little out of our way to a place called Philz Coffee. It’s a chain, I’m pretty sure. Anyway, we’ve driven by the place …
Yoga Review
Today I had my first yoga class ever. You might be asking how it came to be that a person such as me winds up in a yoga class. Convenience is king. A group of people got together to hire a yoga teacher to come up to the Center twice a week. I was assured …