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Last updated Sunday, April 27, 2025

Work

I’m a senior reporter at The San Francisco Standard,. and you can sign up here to read everything over there. If it’s useful, here’s my Authory archive.

Books

I’ve been hanging on a little too long to a hardback copy of Omar El Akkad’s “American War” and I’ve started in on Nicola Griffith’s “Ammonite” a week or so ago.

Drink

Water, coffee, an occasional Coke Zero. On the NA front, usually Heineken 0.0; earlier this month, there were some some Sierra Nevada Trail Pass cans and a Lagunitas IPNA bottle.

Languages

Lately, Arabic, French and Latin, but math and (maybe if Duolingo drops the Android beta, chess.

Location

San Franciso Bay Area? Contra Costa County? West County? San Pablo, after moving from Oakland in mid-2021. A home improvement project is finally pending later this spring, but I can shuffle some papers, empty some boxes, toss some dusty reminders while we wait.

Music

When not buying Bandcamp releases, I’m still using Last.fm to track streaming songs. You can usually find my recent albums on my solo project’s site or earlier versions, demos and experiments over on my SoundCloud. After some curating, most of those will end up on my Bandcamp). And I promised a friend we’d turn some songs we’ve written over the last decade or so into a streamable project: let’s see if it happens …