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Monthly Archives: September 2007

Vineyard of Earthly Delights

By Daedalus Howell | September 30th, 2007
There is little I would hesitate recommending whole-heartedly in Nomaville. Order blindly from any menu in town and chances are you will be pleased. Up the ante by selecting randomly from the wine list and your pleasure will likely double. About the only notion I’d suggest avoiding is sleeping in a vineyard, especially [...]
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News Rapport

By Daedalus Howell | September 21st, 2007
Should it be “putting the me in media” or the I ? The real question is “who cares?” Apparently, me do – at least enough to include a link to David Templeton’s “Speed of Film” article from this week’s Bohemian. Templeton was kind enough to pen some bon mots regarding FilmArt3, the new shingle I’m [...]
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Spitzy & the Dame

By Daedalus Howell | September 20th, 2007
This is not a eulogy, nor simply the blues – this is an outright dirge. Spitzy and the Dame are splitting Nomaville for some far away place, the name of which denial forbids me recall. My only salvo is Chief Cotati’s Curse. You haven’t heard it? Well, pull up a flat rock as the P-Town [...]
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Smoking in the Sky Box

By Daedalus Howell | September 12th, 2007
By the time this little riff hits the presses, the smoke will have cleared. At least we can hope it’s cleared. ’Twas the “Lick Fire,” the result of an illegal debris burn far and away, south of San Jose, which tinted the local skies ash-grey. Just as rays refracting through smog makes for luminous Los [...]
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Antler Chandeliers

By Daedalus Howell | September 6th, 2007
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Skipped a Beat: Nomaville’s Forgotten Poet

By Daedalus Howell | September 6th, 2007
There has been much chatter lately regarding the 50th anniversary of the publication of On the Road, Jack Kerouac’s picaresque novel thought by many as the Beat bible (which, I suppose, would make Allen Ginsberg’s Howl the movement’s manifesto and William Burroughs’ Naked Lunch its Book of the Dead). Like many in my generation, I [...]
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Day Job Didos

By Daedalus Howell | September 3rd, 2007
Surely, every company has one – the de facto go-to guy for gags, aphorisms and other ephemera written to float the fearsome, gaseous godhead of Oz. Paging Mr. Howell. I was asked to pen a sketch to proceed an auction lot at the Sonoma Valley Harvest Wine Auction last Sunday, which had to include the [...]
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Peter Coyote and Rod Lurie Chat

By Daedalus Howell | September 1st, 2007
The movie trailer voice over in my head presently sounds like this: “He thought he had left Hollywood behind for a quiet life as a wine country newspaperman… But Hollywood had another idea…” An orchestra spike, of course, follows as does the freeze frame, which I achieve but suddenly, inexplicably standing still. In Nomaville, this [...]
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Meanwhile back at the Raunch

By Daedalus Howell | September 1st, 2007
The 15th Annual Sonoma Valley Harvest Wine Auction is nearly as deadly as last year’s wine-soaked charity extravaganza. The auction’s theme, the Wild Bunch, owes a direct debt to western auteur Sam Peckinpah’s film of the same name, though reverse transubstantiation finds the blood now wine and a hangover suffices for ill-gotten revenge. Though the [...]
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