No maps for these territories

Tuesday. In the past four days I have discovered something about what it is like to be a part of a community in sudden crisis, to have your campus put squarely and nearly instantaneously on the map of vast public consciousness,  and to have that crisis turned into 24/7 news, a wickedly funny recursive internet [...]

Philip Neustrom and Mike Ivanov created the DavisWiki back in 2004, as UCD students — and it is now one of the most vibrant city wikis in the world, with amazing local participation. In their words: On a given day, about 1 in 6 residents visits the site. Over the course of one week, nearly [...]

Why, it must be the night for Davis is Burning, the (19th!) annual drag show, put on by the oh-so-sexy (and impressively well-dressed tonight) members of Delta Lambda Phi. The tagline this year: tuck it, tape it, stuff it honey! Sometimes I really love this little town (and the university in it). This would be [...]

Well, I’m here safely, and moved in, and there’s obviously a lot to tell, and I have some entries that I wrote offline that begin to tell it. But in the meantime, there are two things to mention while they’re fresh in my mind. Walking downtown in Davis tonight, I saw: 1) a man casually [...]