Pixar Movies in Chronological Order
A while ago my daughters and I went to the Pixar exhibit at the Oakland Museum and now we're watching all the full-length Pixar movies in chronological order. Below is the list -- if you're...
View ArticleEgyptians, We Send Our Love and Hope
Have you seen the photos from Egypt at the New York Times web site?No!!! Better go now.They will make you weep for joy.
View ArticleActor to watch: Anne-Marie Duff
(April 29, 2009 Photo by Tim Whitby/Getty Images Europe)Actor to watch out for: Anne-Marie Duff. She's really really good. Just finished watching Nowhere Boy. She plays Julia, John Lennon's birth...
View ArticleBest in Show at "Dogs on Camera"
"Please move, you're killing my groove." (c) 2011 K. Smokey CormierWinning entry in the "Dogs on Camera" show sponsored by The Frank Bette Arts Center of Alameda. It was held at the satellite gallery...
View ArticleDog Photos by K. Smokey Cormier
I was invited to participate in the "Dogs on Camera" photo exhibit sponsored by the Frank Bette Center for the Arts in Alameda, Ca. We were supposed to go and photograph dogs at the specified dog...
View ArticleHappy Birthday, Anne Lamott
photo from the PRX website (http://www.prx.org/pieces/19657)From today's Writer's Almanac ...It's the birthday of the writer Anne Lamott, born in San Francisco (1954). She had already written three...
View ArticleThe Last Of The Mississippi Bluesmen
David "Honeyboy" Edwards died today. He was the last of the great old Mississippi bluesmen, and you haven't heard the Delta blues played like this, ever. Here he is, in his 90s, still giving it his...
View ArticleYear-end Book Review 2011
Photo copyright K. Smokey Cormier It's the first day of 2012, and time for the annual Book Review and Book List. I started off with 189 books on the list, which I thought was ridiculously high, even...
View ArticleBook List 2012
It's the second day of the new year, you slugs. Get your books out and start reading! Here's my list. I predict I'll make about a third of it by year's-end, if I'm lucky. Also, I hate Barack Obama...
View Article2012 Book Reviews First Quarter
This is what the current book list (at the end of the first quarter) looks like: *7 Habits of Highly Effective People - Stephen R. Covey *50 Stories - Kay Boyle 130 Projects To Get You Into Filmmaking...
View ArticleBook Review 2012
Books read: A History of Cambodia - David Chandler Excellent. Recommended. A History of Democratic Kampuchea - Khamboly DyVery good, extremely disturbing. Before Kampuchea - Milton OsborneGood....
View ArticleSmokey's List of Books to Read for 2013
Here's how it works for me: this list is my guide; however, I have total freedom. I can read whatever books I want. Plus, this list is waaaaaay too many books for me. My average is about 35 books a...
View ArticleIce, people! Ice!!!
I was up near Chabot Space and Science Center today. It was about 4:00pm. And I pulled off the road to take photos and came across this ice puddle ... in Oakland, California!!!
View ArticleBook List 2013
Since some people have been all up in our face with their book list shizznit, I guess we gotta FALL IN LINE with their fascistic listy thinking. So here's OUR book list, bubbalah. Put THAT in your...
View ArticleThe Edible Schoolyard - Last Week’s Visit
I try to go to The Edible Schoolyard every season. I like to see how it changes. I’ve been going for years. I guess it’s about 13 years now. I like to go on the weekends or after school hours when...
View ArticleSausalito - Galilee Harbor
If you go to Sausalito and want to see something different than the main drag, mosey around Galilee Harbor. In the community Green, there are beautiful small greenhouses. And I love to walk the docks...
View ArticleArticle 6
Exploring Jingletown in Oakland California I've lived in Oakland for a while and had never been to Jingletown ... had heard of it for a while but never went there. Well, today was the day. On Twitter...
View Article"Radical Feminists" versus Trans Women
[This is an email I just sent to Counterpunch in response to this article: http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/06/07/the-left-hand-of-darkness/] Counterpunch Editors: Come on, it's the 21 century. These...
View ArticleLink to Reponse to Counterpunch article
And look here for a great response to the original post in Counterpunch about radical feminists and transphobia: http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/06/11/these-are-not-the-radicals-youre-looking-for/
View ArticleSame Sex Marriages at San Francisco City Hall, Plus LGBTQ Pride Saturday
Today my daughter and I went down to San Francisco's Civic Center. Ordinarily, I'm not there on a Saturday ... my couch and a good book usually beckons. But, what the hell, it's Pride weekend and I...
View ArticleQuitcher Bitchin'!
You know why we don't blog much any more? THIS is why. We spend all our time reading about films and film-making and hiking and reading (Indian history & culture this year; last year was...
View Article2013 Book Review
Photo copyright K. Smokey Cormier, used with permission Only 50 books this past year! I'm so ashamed. I plead special circs. I had way too much stuff to do, most of it (literally) shitty. Also too,...
View Article2014 Book List
Photograph copyright K. Smokey Cormier, used with permission. Wut, you thought I'd given up publishing my yearly lists, or even shrunk them in shame? Fuck no. Not me. It's the usual unmanageable List...
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