The Entroporium

One last mention of Walter before we return you to our usual pontifications on media, music and so forth. After four weeks of having him here, I conceded that I was not going to be able to find him a home on my own and enlisted the help of San Rafael’s Milo Foundation. After a [...]

An update on Walter’s progress This is Walter as I found him wandering alone in the Oakland hills. The photo on the left was taken just minutes after I managed to coax him on leash. Weight: 13.5 pounds Two weeks later – neutered, eye surgery, haircut, two squares a day and a little love. Weight: [...]

Sometimes the world demands you stop and help. I found this guy alone by a shade tree in a not-so-remote area of Anthony Chabot Regional Park.� Covered with bugs and filth, I took about 15 minutes to convince him that I could leash him.� I brought him back to the horse stables where he was [...]

A major reason that The Entroporium went on an unintentional 15-week hiatus was the untimely demise of my iBook 1.33, pictured at left. One moment it was burning a copy of an Optimo mix, the next it’s screen was dead and an acrid battery smell was rising off of it. This was especially bittersweet given [...]

Migration to WordPress is complete. There’s some unfinished business to attend to, and off we go! There are places to go, people to see…

First, there’s the little matter of not writing for over a month. I’ve had some all-consuming real estate issues that have absorbed a lot of my free thinking time, the end-of-season and playoff grind of baseball did its annual number on my brain and frankly the pile of music to “get through” got daunting enough [...]

Two weeks ago, I attended a workshop on “Writing About Music” at 826 Valencia in San Francisco. The panel included music criticism luminaries and pioneers like Greil Marcus and Ben Fong-Torres, the room was filled with earnest, erstwhile music critics and the dialogue for the most part was at a high level. I took lots [...]

I’d be interested in chatting with music bloggers from San Francisco. I have an idea for a project, and it would also be great to have a little networking, like all those NYC bloggers do. Give me a shout at shawn at entroporium dot com

Yes, I did it. I joined the blogging age. Just in time for the election to end. Not quite an early adopter, but not quite a senior citizen either. The main triumph was loading the Movable Type software. I spent three hours with this last night trying to get the .cfg file just so. It’s [...]