Data Center Next Door
They built one of those giant data centers next to my house. Everybody had an opinion. Electricity. Water. Jobs. Taxes. Artificial intelligence. Nobody said anything about static electricity. Nobody. I’ve looked like this for three weeks. I called the company. They said their data center doesn’t produce static electricity. Well, that’s interesting.
All Washed Up
They say the sea gives up her secrets in time. Last Tuesday, she gave up Chainsaw Chicken. Or at least what looked like him. The figure washed ashore just after dawn, face down in the muck, wearing a blue shirt and the same vacant expression Chainsaw has worn in family photographs since 1978. By noon, […]
Beach Bums
People are always asking where Chainsaw Chicken learned to play guitar. The answer is simple: the beach. This photograph was taken during Chainsaw’s brief but influential period with a little-known California folk group called The Beach Bums. They never actually recorded an album, mostly because nobody could agree on who was supposed to sing lead, […]