The Life and Times of Sooz

Stephin Merritt of The Magnetic Fields wrote a song for a car company's online ad campaign. The New York Times published an article yesterday about the campaign's short movies ("or long commercials, depending on your perspective").

Update June 27, 2005: December 2004 through February 2005 I was part of Marqui's "Pay to Blog" program. I wrote about them and linked to them once a week. During the three-month program I had this icon displayed on my site in the right sidebar area.

Peter Caputa compiled a list of things ...

Kevin Smokler's Virtual Book Tour is making its way around the web today. The latest installment of the tour features Jennifer Traig's memoir Devil in the Details: scenes from an obsessive girlhood. She chronicles her adventures and missadventures with scruplosity, a hyper-religious form of obsessive compulsive disorder. Jenny's book is equal parts ...

Shannon Okey (photos) and Mike Grasso (words) joined forces for an experience review of the Pixies' homecoming show at the Avalon on Landsowne Street Thursday night. Their words and photos are at Exploit Boston!. Shannon also wrote a fun entry on her weblog about her experience interacting with the other photographers.

I've been thinking about switching some or all of my websites' mini content management system from Movable Type to Word Press for at least a year. Dreamhost recently set up some sort of "one click" Word Press install that works very well. And yesterday, Christine linked to a huge amount of Word Press ...

I'm on my way (as I type this) to New York City for this month's in-person conspiring with Josh Darden. He's a long-time friend and newish client. I usually take the cheap Fung Wah Bus to and from NYC but this time I decided to try out the LimoLiner for the trip to ...

I took a few photos at Thursday night's dinner party at Casablanca. The full photoset is at flickr. Someone asked me how we'd characterize the overall group because it seemed like a mix of people with different backgrounds. How about interesting people? That seems good enough to me.

Update June 27, 2005: December 2004 through February 2005 I was part of Marqui's "Pay to Blog" program. I wrote about them and linked to them once a week. During the three-month program I had this icon displayed on my site in the right sidebar area.

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Gregor Rothfuss and I are hosting a dinner party on the evening of Thursday, December 9, 2004 at Casablanca, a Mediterranean restaurant in Harvard Square located at 40 Brattle Street next to the Brattle Theater and under Cafe Algiers. The gathering is being held after the Berkman Center for Internet & Society's kick-off event ...

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Last night Yves Etheart and I attended the Pixies sold-out show at the Tsongas Arena. We were there on behalf of Exploit Boston!, my event calendar website. It was amazing. I had a photo pass which allowed me to go up front with the photographers from The Improper Bostonian, ...