Category Archives: Blogging
Phone lines down along The Alameda
Our call for citizen reporters brought in this photo from Ira Serkes and this email at 11.21am today:
“Power/phone lines down on The Alameda between Los Angeles and Marin. They are likely back up by now. I was driving home from the gym and heard sirens behind me — got to that part of The Alameda just as the police car pulled up.”
Thanks Ira.
Happy birthday to Daily Kos
Daily Kos, the online progressive political community created by Berkeleyan Markos Moulitsas (above), celebrates its eighth birthday today. To mark the occasion in a small way, Moulitsas posts some extraordinary statistics:
Registered users: 242,193
Trolls banned: 8,123
Registered current or former members of Congress: ~40
Registered current or former governors: 9
Registered current or former presidents: 2
Front page stories: 47,092 (16/day)
Diaries (Launched … Continue reading »
A Berkeley blogger, a cocktail (or two) and a wee-hours email exchange with Apple CEO Steve Jobs
Ryan Tate (left) may be feeling a little bashful about aspects of the “feisty” email exchange he had with Steve Jobs on Friday night and Saturday morning. But it’s unlikely he regrets it.
For Tate, a Berkeley-based writer for tech gossip site Valleywag (part of the Gawker blogging empire) the cocktail-fueled online conversation constitutes a real coup. The Apple CEO is not known for his willingness to divulge much, let alone chat after hours to tech bloggers. (He … Continue reading »
The Berkeley Wire: 5.11.10
Blogs with bite: Berkeley’s Mental Masala makes the cut [Mark Bittman]
Comment: Why Berkeley is wrong on Bus Rapid Transit [East Bay Young Dems]
Watchdog group sues Dept of Justice over missing John Yoo emails [TPM]
Sexaholix’s John Leguizamo joins Berkeley Rep’s Fireworks festival [Rep]
From dance pioneer to former Mexican mayor: Cal’s commencement speakers [UC]
Photo of sign spotted today on Telegraph at Oregon by Bob Patterson.
A mother’s day, the Berkeley way
Jane Stillwater is the quintessential Berkeley mom. After reading our recent coverage of the “Your Mom is So Berkeley” website, she wrote this delightful account of her quintessential Berkeley Mothers’ Day. Stillwater, a grandmother as well as a mom, has four children and lives in Berkeley.
Did you know that there’s a website out now that is completely devoted to jokes about Berkeley moms? Blond jokes and Polish jokes are out now. Berkeley Mom jokes are in. “My mom is so Berkeley that….”
Hey, I’m a Berkeley mom. So when my daughter Ashley and son Joe asked me what I wanted to do for Mothers’ Day this year, I got to thinking about Berkeley. “Hey, I’ve got an idea. Let’s drive around Berkeley to all the places we used to hang out at when you guys were kids.” Tot lots? Soccer fields? Elementary schools? No way! My kids had different kinds of memories about their pasts.
First we went to the Caffe Mediterraneum up on Telegraph Avenue, where I used to sit and gossip in the 1970s and drink caffe lattes while my kids played under the table. Other kids may have gone to Blue Fairyland for daycare but not mine!
“My mom was so Berkeley that she raised me at the Med.”
Then we drove by People’s Park. “I was there when we first started to plant its gardens back in 1969,” I told the kids. “I was there for the riots and the tear gas. And I got my picture on the front page of the Berkeley Barb during our victory parade.”
That’s just great. “My mom is so Berkeley that she was a cover girl for the Berkeley Barb….”
Then we drove by the University of California. I always measure my life by this benchmark: “Am I having as much fun now as I did while going to Cal back in the 1960s?” And the answer is still always no.
“My mom is so Berkeley that she used to take us to hunger strikes up on Sproul Plaza.” And I still do.
Next we drove down past the old Mandrake’s nightclub, where I first met one of the backup guitarists for a band called Joy of Cooking. Two months later I was pregnant. “That’s not my child and goodbye,” said the lead singer for a band named Commander Cody and The Lost Planet Airmen.
“My mom is so Berkeley that she spends our entire Mothers Day making us listen to stories about when she was a Flower Child.” Damn straight. And before that I was a Beatnik. And don’t you forget it. … Continue reading »
Your mom is so Berkeley: A picnic in the park
“Your Mom is So Berkeley”, the more than entertaining Facebook group which has blossomed since we first wrote about it in December 2009, is throwing its first big event this weekend — a picnic to which all of those who have memories, fond or otherwise, of their Berkeley moms are invited.
After discovering YMISB, we checked back in March when the group hit 1,000 members. The New York Times read our story and ran its Continue reading »
Rookie Moms tell it how it really is
Berkeley moms Heather Flett and Whitney Moss (pictured left) are all about debunking a few myths, most notably that new motherhood is a bed of roses.
Indeed, as any new mother knows, it can be hard work and, well, boring too. With their blog Rookie Moms the pair, who met when 15 years ago through their then boyfriends, and each have two young children, offer practical help as well as the more standard mommy blog fare of shared … Continue reading »
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