there’s art, and there’s BART art
When I described the new subway-tunnel “videos” as Warhol-esque, I didn’t realize that the flickering successive poster Target ads actually have an artistic precursor in the New York Subway:...
View ArticleYouTube for our tube
With everybody launching and promoting video clip Web sites, it’s hard to get excited about another one. This weekend I saw Ed O’Neill (Al Bundy on “Married with Children“), in a take-off of a...
View Articlepreparing for the 4/29 commission
I’m sorry it took so long to discover this, but if you want to get to the bottom of what really happened Sunday, there are plenty of resources out there. The first one, referred to me by our esteemed...
View Articlemy 15 minutes
As if all my histrionics over the MacArthur Maze collapse weren’t enough, someone is making a movie about the April 29 gasoline tanker truck mishap. I know this because they interviewed me today for...
View Articlethe real change on the Bay Bridge
Throughout last weekend and the week before, I was constantly shaking off attempts to write anything about FasTrak changes on the Bay Bridge. Why? Because it’s boring. Moving a 6,700-ton slab of...
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