other projects

This will be updated from time to time.

Here I am on Facebook and MySpace and Twitter (oh my). I use Facebook now a little more often than MySpace. My Twitter usage went way down when fb2twit (Facebook status automatically posting to Twitter) got taken down. Ah, well.

Here’s something nice you could do for me: Suggest a movie. You can view a list of movies I’d like to rent, or that other people think I should rent. You can also download it and edit it by pointing your FTP client at the
server: “gohlkusmaximus.com”, using the very limited access username “rentals@gohlkusmaximus.com” and the password “rentals”. (Please don’t delete anything. I’m trusting you.)

You could also buy me something.

I’ve written a very small number of reviews on Yelp. I have ventured (in my reviewing) as far as 6 blocks from my apartment. Perhaps I could branch out a bit. Heck, there are dozens of places I could credibly review, from coast to coast.

I occasionally volunteer my time with Brainwash Movies, which held its 13th Annual Brainwash Drive-In/Walk-In/Bike-In Movie Festival July 6th and 7th, 2007, in scenic west Oakland, California. It is run in a totally mediocre fashion (giving it a ton of indie cred) by the enigmatic impresario Shelby Toland. The website is just horrible; I plan to redesign it someday, maybe even before next year’s festival.

Here are a few words about my CafePress shop. Visit it if you’d like to buy poorly made t-shirts with the random ideas that come into my head (or the ideas I steal from others) printed on them. The women’s t-shirt on the site was from the whim of one of my old friends on a bulletin board (and a feature on the McSweeney’s web site). Sorry for stealing your idea, guys. I think it falls under “fair use,” right? I’ll donate my non-existent profits to 826 Valencia. A more detailed “artist’s statement,” for lack of a better term, appears on the storefront.

I’m coasting along as a delegate in the California Democratic Party. My initial intention was to work hard to make the party more progressive from within. My current intention is to fulfill my one formal commitment (which is to finish my second term as a delegate, through the end of 2008) and step aside for someone else who is less ambivalent about politics and more willing to spend a lot of time organizing. I am glad I had the experience, and I’m glad it’s winding down.

Someday cool stuff like Buoycycle Productions, a 21st Century Constitution Convention for the United States of America, and the International Iraq Tribunal will actually be something. Right now, they’re merely the seeds of incredible ideas.

More later.