Tagged With: San Francisco
Newsom sings the hits
Last night, my dad took me to see Gavin Newsom being interviewed at the Commonwealth Club. Some highlights: Interviewer: Let’s talk about sports. Newsom: Sports are important…but ultimately, sports are games, they’re fun, they’re just games. Interviewer: And they’re big business. Newsom: Like I said. I chuckle to myself. To millionaire mayor Newsom, big business … Continue reading
Exposing journalism’s seedy underbelly
I had my first press conference today. (“Why are you holding a press conference?” a confused friend asked, but no. Attended my first press conference.) Here are some of the things I learned: Your word is good enough for us. All I had to do to score a press kit was to walk up and … Continue reading
Beers for Fears
I got liked on by a cute boy at Safeway today. I was wearing my most flattering dress, which might account for it, or perhaps he was admiring my choice of Safeway Select brand mayonnaise. “That is a thrifty girl,” he might have been thinking, “and thrift is totally hot.” At least I was not … Continue reading
Do you love me, now that I can dance?
Last night, Elly and I went to a club that Beth’s company had rented out for the night. The website exhorted women to “wear whatever you want…as long as it’s sexy!” And there I realized my first problem: I’ve gradually been phasing “sexy” out of my wardrobe. Unless the early nineties fashions come back in, … Continue reading
I’ll stake my Pulitzer on it!
I attended a meeting of the Dog Advisory Committee last night for an article I’m writing. They were meeting to discuss the possibility of starting a timed use program in some of SF’s city parks. Timed use means that during some hours of the day (usually very early morning and late evening), owners can let … Continue reading
Lad Ball
After an excellent day spent touring the De Young and eating cake with the Woods, the Lad and I spent yesterday evening sitting near each other and reading things. Because the radiator schedule hasn’t been amended to account for the chilly evenings, I had to wrap up in my XXL flannel pajamas covered with a … Continue reading
“This is to make an ass of me…”
I was thinking about A Midsummer Night’s Dream yesterday. As fairies, Titania and Oberon exist outside of human morality: they have extra-marital affairs, fuck around with nature when they’re in a mood, and meddle in the lives of mortals whenever they like. Because they exist in an amoral paradigm, they are not punished for behaving … Continue reading
The children’s crusade
Right now there’s a protest march of school children (with some chaperones) shouting their way through the little patch of Market Street we can see from our windows. Because they’re kids, with their shrill alien voices, it’s impossible to tell what they’re shouting about. It’s funny to think that these kids, or the marchers in … Continue reading
Books vs Boyfriend
On Thursday I went to the annual SF Library booksale and brought home 30 books for $50. Today, after more coffee than my brain could reasonably handle, I went into the dining room where the Lad was clattering away at the keyboard and where my shelf of unread books was sitting patiently. “How are you … Continue reading
The city with the largest homeless
San Francisco, the city with the largest homeless and activist populations in the world (probably) is a tough place to walk down the street in. Every sidewalk in my neighborhood is lined with people asking me for things. I don’t give money to the homeless. Not on any kind of principle, but because I live … Continue reading