San Francisco
November 4, 2009
- There is a holiday for everything. Executive Assistants Day, Grandparents Day, President’s Day (don’t these important men deserve days of their own?). According to my mother, every day is children’s day even when your children are adults. So Mom, where’s my daily present? Hands down my favorite is November 7, National Bookstore Day. Addicts do not have celebrations of their ...
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November 4, 2009
- Choosing my favorite bookstore is like choosing my favorite iguana. Like many in the Red Room, I’ve spent many hours (and many dollars) at places like A Clean Well-lighted Place, City Lights, Green Apple, Moe’s, and Cody’s. And I once spent a summer in Paris at Shakespeare & Company thumbing through used books and listening to the rants and ramblings of the ancient owner. ...
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November 3, 2009
- Remember that awful headline back in March of 2008? “S.F. gay community an epicenter for new strain of virulent staph.” It began with a San Francisco Chronicle article by Sabin Russell, which in essence “reported” on a University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) study published in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine related to a MRSA study, which resulted in widespread ...
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November 2, 2009
- Halloween is a national holiday here in San Francisco. This isn’t simply because people get to dress in sexy costumes borrowed from their wives’ closets or purchased at one of our local leather emporiums. Yes, it is a time when people get to come out of their shell and walk around the streets of a major city expressing their inner slut, but there is more to it than that. It’s really about ...
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October 30, 2009
- It has been a very, very long time (four months) since I wrote about the assault of the pigeons on the West coast of this great land, and in particular on the light well outside my kitchen, and no doubt many of you have wondered about the status of this epic battle for the soul of America. My sense is you have all been holding your breath, terrified that these pernicious monsters were winning and ...
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October 29, 2009
- Channeling the poetic spirits once again for Round IV of the Sparring With Beatnik Ghosts poetry series – this time “In the Land Of The Dead” on Tuesday, November 3. The show features Hip-Hop performance poet Wise Proof Avatari, New York poet Jane Ormerod, Lunation with Clara Hsu and Bill Mercer, Bay Area poets Don Brennan, James Cagney, Ingrid Keir, H.D. Moe, Cabaret poet Cara Vida and ...
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October 25, 2009
- WHO IS MARIO?Outside of the customs cubicle, inside the front sliding doors to the Leon Airport in Mexico, my driver held an overhead cardboard sign with my last name hand printed on it: CAMPBELL. I followed him outside where he placed my two travel bags in the trunk of the white Lexus. While I watched the thirty-something man I’d decided he was a typical Mexican hombre physically ...
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October 23, 2009
- Happy Autumn everyone. It feels like years have gone by between the September and October updates. I began writing this entry after listening to the students in my Craft of Fiction class at SFSU give feedback on each other's creative work. We're in week 9, and each week they've written a response to a challenging creative writing prompt (think of a more academic version of Project Runway, for ...
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October 22, 2009
- Lenore Kandel died on October 18, 2009 - she was 77. Lenore was originally from New York, but found herself in San Francisco during the 1960's. She is considered one of the last of the Beat poet's and Jack Kerouac portrayed her as the character Romana Swartz in his 1962 novel, 'Big Sur'. She wrote and published 'The Love Book' in 1966 and she soon became one of the shining lights of San ...
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October 22, 2009
- San Francisco in the minds of many conjours up images of Golden Gate Bridges and Seaside views; of Active faultlines and Busy streets. The city of the impossible, as I call it, is the only city I know where a small town denzien feels welcomed and a big city dweller feels at home. A person whose miles away from home can find a tiny, little slice of something familiar on a street, in a pie or in ...
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