Tweet 11/30/08 Last night I went to the 50th birthday party of a friend and mentor. It was a very nice time. Of course, today is the day I officially become homeless again (though not friendless and so not without a place to hang my very nice hat) and so that is a bit odd. [...]

Tweet 11/28 I move out of my place tomorrow and the process of getting rid of stuff has been ongoing. Today, I decided to have a small garage sale. I woke up early and the weather was nice so I put an ad on craigslist and started to carry stuff outside. As soon as I [...]

Tweet 11/22 Ditched out of the conference this afternoon and treated myself to a shoeshine from a great Italian guy named Carmelo. he made my $3.50 Johnston and Murphy shoes look like the $500 masterpieces they were before I owned them. We talked about James Bond and sunglasses. Incidentally, I saw the new James Bond [...]

Tweet 11/21 If you don’t like being observed, San Francisco is definitely the wrong place to be this week. Thousands (I think but I didn’t count) of anthropologists from allover the world are here for the American Anthropological Association’s annual conference. Actually you may not have much to worry about, we are mostly watching each [...]