Exhibit 5a | Creative Disobedience

Dear Adobe,
Fuck you and all of your proprietary programs that you make me use. Simply because you have a monopoly on the market doesn’t mean that it will last forever. There will come a day when a third party is going to go all InDesign on Quark on YOU and then you’ll be sorry. Since [...]

It’s fairly late on Saturday night, or rather Sunday morning. I”m sitting on my couch with my old laptop (the new one still not back from the shop). I’m on the couch because I’ve given up my bed to a friend of mine and his wife who came into the city for the day (aren’t [...]

When I was a kid, my parents were wisely very careful about what my sister and I were allowed to watch on TV, and they also had some pretty tight rules about what we were allowed to watch. School nights were out, but on the weekends we had a little more freedom. We didn’t have [...]

The great thing about getting a day to remember the people who have fallen for our country is that you get some extra days off work. Like today and Monday for instance. Thanks for dying guys!
I’ve been making an attempt to clean my apartment as I have a couple friends coming into town tomorrow, [...]

Me: “So, how long is this repair going to take?”
Apple “Genuis”: “Well, it will ship out today, they’ll get it Monday, do the repair and ship it Tuesday and you should have it back Wednesday or Thursday at the latest.”
Me: “Oh good, so I’ll get it back before the long weekend so I can have [...]

I wasn’t going to comment on this article in the NYTimes about bloggers which everyone is tittering about. No, I really wasn’t. But, um, I’m going to. Briefly, I swear.
All I gotta say is that it’s just great, GREAT that we’re depicted as obsessive compulsive computer geeks who would rather blog than do anything. Lemme [...]

As many of you may know, I really like sushi. It was something that I hadn’t tried until I moved to New York, but in a matter of months of my arrival, one of my friends broke me in, and I’ve been gobbling down the wasabi ever since.
While I have no difficulty stomaching raw fish, [...]

I was standing on the street outside a bar in the East Village waiting for a friend. A man approached me from down the street. At about ten feet away, he starts talking to yelling at me. I should note that I didn’t look at him or acknowledge him in any way at any [...]