The Entroporium

Last Friday, my friend Dennis took me down to the parking lot of the HP Pavilion to check out The Roots. Actually, that’s not quite right. It was the Dew Action Sports Tour, featuring The Roots playing out back after all the BMX jumping was over. I’d never been to one of these action sports [...]

MP3 – John Adams: On The Transmigration Of Souls (34.4 MB) http://entroporium.com/mp3/01%20On%20the%20Transmigration%20of%20souls.mp3 From Tony Kushner’s Homebody/Kabul: Ours is a time of connection. All must be touched. All touch corrupts. All must be corrupted. Foreign Policy: The Day Nothing Much Changed [I]f you look closely at the trend lines since 9/11, what is remarkable is how [...]

Today presents a challenge to my core identity. I’ve been attending Cal games since I was a wee cub of six. That’s thirty-three years (cough) of futility. Not totally futility, mind you — there have been a few bowl games and good years — but thirty-three years without playing in the Rose Bowl or BCS [...]

On a week when my home state has signed into law one of the world’s most sweeping environmental policies, it’s fitting to take a brief look at one of San Francisco’s other major contributions to the greening of America. This one, though, took place over 50 years ago. In the early 1950s, the California Division [...]