It’s strange how much of my past is on the Internet.
When I was looking for something else I’d done, I found my book review of 1997’s “new” Anne Rice that I’d totally forgotten about writing. It’s the bottom half of this two-part-er! I actually...
Author: Anna
Things You Find when you Google Yourself!
I create things, then I forget all about them. Once I’ve published something–or posted a picture on flickr—I tend to forget about whatever it is. I’ve never really been all that curious about how people interact with what I create, once a window of about three days has passed.
I figure, if I spelled anyone’s name wrong, or forgot anything important, it would turn up during that three days. (Three days is, not un-coincidentally, about the turnaround for a huffy letter-to-the-editor to arrive, citing exactly what someone is unhappy about. Trust me on this.)
The Editor of Cooks Source is an Idiot…And I Know This Because Of Having my “Hello Kitty” Article Republished!
Hello Kitty Guitar! In Tokyo! To put things in context for everyone, especially my friends outside the US…. The Internet’s intellectual-property scandal of the day involves the magazine Cooks Source re-printing an article by...
The right kind of scary
I spend many October evenings as a guide at the charity haunted house “Scare For a Cure.” In what may be the only acting/hiking gig in the world, I’m responsible for safely leading groups...
A festival everyone can enjoy
I had an unexpected realization during the Flaming Lips set at the Austin City Limits Music Festival. Watching the Oklahoma-based band closing their show with “Do You Realize??” I discovered tears steaming down my...
Changes Brought On By A Trip of Japan, Trip to a Controversial Museum
I’ve never been the sort of person who usually thinks about World War II. I don’t watch the History channel, I don’t read books about the war, and I’ve never taken an interest in...
Another summer, another Latvian music festival
Going to a music festival in Salacgriva, Latvia, three years in a row is so absurd, even I don’t really believe I’m doing it. Yet, come July 16-17, I’ll again be someplace I never...
Unmarked Heads Found in Southwest Airlines Cargo
. . . . . In what sounds like the setup for a horror movie, in Little Rock, Arkansas a Southwest Airlines Employee found 40-to 60 heads — or parts of human heads —...
Scare For A Cure at Eeyore’s Birthday
You may be aware that Austin’s annual hippie festival, Eeyore’s Birthday Party, was held in Pease Park this past April. You might know about the hordes of costumed revelers, some of whom attended the...
Coming of age in a time of youth
It’s one thing to be aware that you won’t live forever. It’s quite another to be made aware of your own mortality amid the youth-inspired bedlam of South by Southwest. It’s taken me a...
