Learn more about Oakland in Popular Memory, my collection of interviews with artists from Oakland and artists who’ve influenced musicians from Oakland, by going to my Kickstarter page and Thought Publishing.

Today I launched a Kickstarter project to fund my next book of artist interviews titled Oakland in Popular Memory:

I went to Occupy Oakland as a spectator on Friday night, October 28, 2011. Here’s the blog post I wrote about my experience published on Oakland Local’s Community Voices today: http://oaklandlocal.com/posts/2011/10/my-visit-occupy-oakland-oct-282011-community-voices

I worked the last week of September in Hyderabad (HITEC City) and Bangalore (Silicon Valley of India). Both areas have very interesting cultures with the intersection of IT. Read about my trip to India on my travel blog.

Today I published a blog post on the Google Books blog honoring Jorge Luis Borges’s 112th birthday, to correspond with the doodle honoring Borges at http://www.google.com.

Read the post here: http://booksearch.blogspot.com/2011/08/peering-into-jorge-luis-borgess.html