from the chambers of my brain

By hamblog | January 13, 2009 |

I was daydreaming last week, as is my wont, and started to thinking about courtroom artists. I find it charming that such old-world art methods (pastel, pencil and watercolor) are still used to create images for our thoroughly modern media. I love that, and will be sad the day that they let cameras in absolutely…

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the strangest half-block of my life

By hamblog | January 9, 2009 |

After celebrating the first moments of 2009 (some us included the Leap Second in our countdown!), we headed out of the restaurant. Two of us were blowing noisemakers that made the most maddening, strangled sound imaginable. The second our group hit the sidewalk, a homeless person across Oak Street shouted “shut the fuck up or…

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hambox advent thank you!

By hamblog | January 4, 2009 |

So many thanks so many people that have found and created and amassed and enjoyed the delights that I have linked to over the course of the 2008 Hambox Advent Calendar. I loved the collaborative spirit and plan to do it again next year, so put your thinking caps on and start collecting those links!…

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1/2/08, part two

By hamblog | January 2, 2009 |

Here’s part one. Read it first! We took our mustache and met up with Tamar for dinner and more drinks at Zum Schneider, where the mustache revelry was apt among the authentic Bavarian biergarten ambiance — authentic, except for the facts that it was indoors and that it was 14 degrees outside. Weinerschitzel and spiced…

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brave new world

By hamblog | January 1, 2009 |

Totally cute Talia at the noisemaker-heavy apres-improv New Year’s celebration at My Florist in Ventura I’m halfway through the first day of 2009 and here is some important data for you: This is my 501st post!! First song heard: a snippet of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, as played by Leonard Bernstein Assessment of digestive health: robust.…

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we will now come to session

By hamblog | December 30, 2008 |

So much has happened during and after the Era of The Hambox Advent Calendar, but I felt curiously restricted from writing a real blog post during that time. Or maybe it was a reaction against NaBloPoMo from the month previous. At any rate, I am relieved that required daily posting of any kind is over.…

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creak, creeeeeak!

By hamblog | December 23, 2008 |

[direct link] Creak, Creeeeeak! That’s the sound of the last two Hambox Advent Windows, a-opening for you! I’m hitting the road, tomorrow at dawn, and I’m not sure if this land of “New Mexico” with its “snow” has heard of internet yet–so I’m not taking any chances. [PS: the links are fixed for 12/23 —…

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Typical.

By hamblog | December 23, 2008

So there are a mess of broken links on today’s Weird Winter Blues Advent Calendar Window. Of course there are, as yesterday was just wrong, beginning to end. Forgive me and check back to the calendar after 4pm PST, when I can get home and right the wrongs, and hope that tomorrow will be a…

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ho ho ho hoo boo hoo hooooo

By hamblog | December 22, 2008 |

So, I took half a day off work to sit in a courtroom, just to be told by a judge that {in menacing tone} “no, I can’t lower your traffic ticket fine, but I can certainly make it go up.” I don’t really know why taking a late-yellow left hand turn is so bad that…

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