I was required to write some kind of year round-up story for KQED, so opted to make fun of all of the tech that will surely kill us in the next 20 years. HAPPY NEW YEAR! Don't get hit by a ghost car! kqed.org/arts/13968197/…

This week, as we near the end of 2024, the writers and editors of KQED Arts & Culture are reflecting on One Beautiful Thing from the year. Editor Sarah Hotchkiss started playing the piano again this year, after a three-decade rest. How it helped her: kqed.org/arts/13968532/…

Hero. ❤️‍🩹

You know how American Christians always talk about Pagans like they're blood thirsty Satanists? ... Yeeeeeeah... 👇😄

Usually I'm like "I don't do resolutions because I don't give anything up," but this year, I think my resolution should be getting a tetanus shot because one of the things I can't give up is touching pigeons and squirrels and, man, that would be a dumb reason to stop breathing.🐿

Just remembering that time I called Thomas Edison an "elephant murdering ghoul man" on NPR One and feeling pretty pleased with myself. HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Been struggling with the loss of Pete Doolittle all week. I wrote down some memories from our earliest days in San Francisco when things were a little harder, a little easier and altogether more unhinged. I'd forgotten quite how much he'd done for me. 🖤 kqed.org/arts/13970001/…

Noticing two famous women simultaneously losing an enormous amount of weight while making and promoting the exact same movie is not a judgment about those women's bodies. It's a question about what happened on the damn movie set that caused it. Something is rotten in Oz, y'all.

I have loved this David Lynch interview since the moment it happened. 💚 youtube.com/watch?v=_0itTp…

This is actually glorious.

Sometimes, I try to report on science... but only, apparently, when it involves poo. And fake dogs. And a pile of dead gophers. 🐕💩 kqed.org/arts/13970587/…

The sound system at Planet Fitness always be like: Natasha Bedingfield remix! Bel Biv Devoe! And then ... literally every time I'm there... 100% by Sonic Youth. This has happened in more than 1 Planet Fitness and I'd like to know which CEO is throwing Kim Gordon into this mix.

New Apple TV docmentary #Vietnam humanized this war (from every angle) like nothing else I've ever seen about the war. Don't miss it — especially the last episode, which tells the astounding story of an effort to save one South Vietnamese family. kqed.org/arts/13969945/…

Tonight! 'Extremely Unique Dynamic' is holding a one-off screening in SF 4 Star Theater. It's an unusually smart and funny buddy flick from Strand Releasing, starring Harrison Xu and Ivan Leung. If you can't make the screening, find it on VOD! kqed.org/arts/13970921/…

Do you love San Francisco and the people in it? Do you want to see what everyone looked like here in the early 1970s? (Trust me. You do.) Barbara Ramos and Chronicle Books has quite a treat for you... 🌉 kqed.org/arts/13968576/…

I am finally watching 'The Substance' and, holy shit, it's TERRIBLE. The woman that made this movie hates women and she wants you to hate women too. Fuck off with your awards.

It's almost Valentine's Day, everyone! Because this holiday is designed to make single people feed bad about their lives, I'm trying to restore the balance with this: the stories of some San Francisco couples who caused each other's deaths. Yay! 💘 kqed.org/arts/13970440/…

For years, Twitter was useful for news, trends & connecting to other journalists. Since becoming X, it has ceased to be helpful on any level. More importantly, the motivations of its owner make it impossible to stay without feeling complicit. I'm out.👋 Sorry it took me so long.