Sunday, October 17, 2004

Mother of Inns

Stopping for dinner at the Madonna Inn, a triumph of kitsch over geology (an achievement: the rocks are huge) in San Luis Obispo. There's free Wi-Fi, so we're taking advantage.

Listened to a couple podcasts while zooming down through the Salinas Valley, until the kid couldn't stand it anymore. Can't you play some SONGS on that thing? he kept saying.

Somewhere in there the subject turned to the podcasting story by in the LA Times by Susan Carpenter, which ran in the Calendar section a few days ago. It's a good piece, but a huge PITA to read online, even for a 7-day LA Times subscriber like me. Look it up before it scrolls behind the costwall. Your luck may vary.

Bonus link: Urinals of the Madonna Inn. A must-pee.

Hugh nu!

Hugh "Gapingvoid" MacLeod is writing a book, and says this about it. Love this line:

The fewer safety nets there are to save us, the less choice we have to be anything other than ourselves