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My socks don't match. I usually wear black socks. They are all slightly different shades. I couldn't find two alike this morning. I don't care.

Lots of good stuff coming up at the Fillmore in SF. Gomez, Los Lobos, Guster, and more!

My post made me think of this quote from Thich Nhat Hanh - "We have many Zen centers. We need more Zen corners."

I purchased a signed copy of a book called Crooked Cucumber for my friend Meg a while back. She liked it so much that I figured I should get one for myself. So tonight skp and I went to Petaluma and listened to David Chadwick read from the book and tell stories. He was funny. I also found out that he lives in the same town as me. His book is a biography of Suzuki Roshi -- the Zen master who came from Japan to San Francisco in 1959 and founded the Zen center there. A good anecdote from his talk: "Someone asked Suzuki Roshi, What is Zen? He answered: What is brown rice? I like this question better."

my hotmail account gets a lot of spam. the ammount is astounding, really. It makes me wonder if Microsoft somehow helps spammers reach their audience. I like this: "Now you can receive FREE Jokes, FREE Horoscopes, FREE Info on Free Stuff, FREE Weird But True News in your e-mail!!" Holy Shit! No way! Sign me up for life! How do they do it for FREE?! I wanna party with that list!

Do they still make music videos? Whenever I flip past mtv, the only thing I ever see is a bunch of people in bathing suits in a huge hut-like structure on a beach somewhere lip-synching to songs that were popular about a year ago or the Real World. never videos. but I see ads. lots of ads. I keep expecting a backlash against corporations. Kids! Corporations are not cool! music videos are ads for CDs and tapes and artists. and mtv is a very well funded home shopping network.

I recently picked up bjork's volumen. I hadn't seen most of her videos before.

go spike jonze! I really like the bjork video (2.5 mb mov) he did a while back. shh! shh! shh! [clip from websense]

Here is a good quote for today.

the MX birds are stealing my emails and using them to build nests. bad birds!

I do not buy things/view ads from companies that send spam. mp3.com is now off my browsing list.

The sun was out for about five minutes. come back!