Last last year a number of industrial heavy hitters - Skinny Puppy, Front Line Assembly, Haujobb, Youth Code, and S4NtA_MU3rTE - came to San Francisco as The Alliance of Sound. We missed the first few bands due to traffic but arrived just in time to catch one of my favorites, Front Line Assembly whose work was a staple of my misspent youth's soundtrack. It was a joy to watch their retrotech-heavy visuals and hear their newer work live (along with a couple of old favorites). We stayed as long as we could, but I have to be honest the lot of us …
Last year William Gibson went on a book tour for his latest novel, The Peripheral. I don't have much to say about when he came to the Bay Area because I was (predictably) sick and not running on all 64 bits. Here are the pictures..
In August of 2013 Lyssa and I spotted a most unusual thing on our way up to the front door after grocery shopping, a cicada hawk, which is a wasp that hunts cicadas. This particular speciment could have perched proudly in the palm of my hand and easily stretched from one side to the other.
