Kevin is off…

Smokler on August 2, 2006

So I just got back from Marin County where I was picking up a shoefly pie. Please don’t ask.

Tomorrow I head out to Chicago for Lollapalooza and a birthday dinner (mine) with 25 of my closest friends. I may be blogging while out there but most likely not.

See you Tuesday then. The next time, I’m here, I’ll be 33.

One of Our Own in Jail:

Smokler on August 1, 2006

Josh Wolf, who was one of my bloggers for the San Francisco International Film Festival, is in federal prison tonight for refusing to turn over video footage he shot of a war protest in San Francisco last year. The government wants to use it as evidence in the attempted vandalism of a SF Police car. Wolf claims that, if we begin down the road of journalists having to surrender their footage to government investigators, then how do we protect the confidentiality of sources?

I haven’t make up my mind about who is right or wrong here and I really don’t care. As a blogger, a maker of citizen media, Josh is a brother in arms. That I know the guy and know he’s out to make a point, not a stink for its own sake, means I support his case all the more.

So I ask to all readers: Please post this story on your blog. And if you can, make a donation to Josh’s legal defense fund. I don’t want to see more of him and us, jailed in the name of “crime prevention.”