Lotsa SN&R goodness

Sena and I co-wrote this week’s cover story on the Quiverfull movement, a pro-birth, pro-patriarchy Christian theology:

http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/content?oid=1304920

Last week I interviewed John Marcotte, the architect of the best political satire in a long time: the 2010 California Protection of Marriage Act:

http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/content?oid=1300212

(What’s great about Marcotte’s idea is that people don’t get the joke; Check out the letter by Tyler Glimstad  that ran this week: http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/content?oid=1304235)

And two weeks ago I wrote a preview on Star Wars in Concert. I scored tickets to attend the show, but it was lame. I’d write more about it, but I’m too high from glue sniffing:

http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/content?oid=1294662

The Starbucks Via challenge

Starbucks is marketing its new Via instant coffee product. According to this ad campaign, people can’t tell the difference between Via and regular coffee.

In other words: The overpriced Starbucks brews taste just like instant coffee.

Way to go, Starbucks marketing team!

Blonde-on-black dye jobs

Every time I see the blonde-on-black hair dye job popular with the Emo/Scene/short bus crowd, I think: If sewer rats had opposable thumbs and access to peroxide, that’s how they’d dye their fur.

Image stolen from here.

Shit

I’m sitting in a coffee shop writing about my experience at gay-to-straight camp. Sitting at two different tables are two people that I recognize. I’ve interviewed both of them for two separate SN&R articles and I can’t fucking rememer where or why or when I interviewed them. Shit.

Thanks, Huffington Post!

It all started when I submitted a pic here. Then over the next few days I got a buttload of traffic:

Forth and back

The phrase “back and forth” sounds funny to me. Don’t you have to go forth and then come back?

There’s probably some reason why the phrase turns logic around. I’m just too fucking lazy to Google it right now.

In the meantime, I’ll keep heading back and forth to — wherever.

Sacreligious is dead

SN&R’s weekly religion column, Sacreligious!, was put to sleep this week. The cause of death is listed as “lack of advertising.”

I mourn the loss.

Sometimes

Alright, maybe it’s the alcohol. Or maybe it was the amazing time I had at my friends’ wedding tonight. Either way:

A lot of my writing capitalizes on a pessimistic view of humanity. But sometimes — just sometimes — I feel there’s hope for the future. Tonight is one of those times.

Hell, even if we end up fucking up the planet, at least we had a good time doing it.

Everything you wanted to know about Ramadan but were afraid to ask

I had a sweet Q&A with Omar Mumtaz, a local Muslim who taught me all sorts of stuff about Ramadan:

http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/content?oid=1209568

Rainbows in the water?

My buddy Mandi mentioned she hadn’t seen this video. It’s too sweet to miss.