San Francisco
August 18, 2009
- Hey, check out my essay, "Miss Beauty Queen," in this month's SoMa Literary Review. It deals with the San Francisco of my youth (as a good friend would say, "...right after the Earth's crust cooled..."). Here's the link: http://somalit.com/Miss_Beauty.htmlIf that doesn't work, go to somalit.com and search for Mary Lynn Archibald. There's lots of great stuff at SoMaLit. It's ...
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August 11, 2009
- It seems it is the season for paroling women who attempt to assassinate our presidents and those who commit heinous crimes. Sara Jane Moore, the middle aged woman and a mother who shot at Pres. Ford in 1975 was released from prison December 2007. Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, the Manson follower who waved a gun at Pres. Ford 17 days before Moore fired at Ford also may be out soon. ...
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August 2, 2009
- Sparring With Beatnik Ghosts Round III – This third installment, “Round III” of this spellbinding poetry series takes place at Bird & Beckett (653 Chenery Street, San Francisco, Glen Park District) on August 15 at 7 p.m at one of San Francisco's hot spots for jazz and spoken word. The event is quickly becoming a cult favorite among spoken word/poetry enthusiasts in the Bay Area. Guest ...
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July 30, 2009
- December 7, 1941, Cayucos, Central California I didn’t understand. I was only four. Unaware that my life was reversing, like the tide before me, I played on the beach. The sun brightened the cloudless sky, turning it a silvered winter blue, perfect for Sunday, Daddy’s day off. As he and Mom raced to the sea, the foam slapped against the shore. One strap of her bathing suit slipped. In ...
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July 25, 2009
- Thanks to friend devorah major, I attended/experienced this year's San Francisco International Poetry Festival. And after the first marathon reading last night, got to break bread (and sing songs) with poets from all over the world (Nigeria, Wales, Vietnam, Ecuador, Syria, Palestine, Israel, the list goes on). Truly, I could live fuller if I read more poetry. This is common sense. I need more ...
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July 23, 2009
- I’ve read at Litquake two years in a row now, in 2007 at 11AM at the SF Public Library, sandwiched in between an Iraq war vet and the Yale Younger poet, and last year at a pricey clothing boutique in the Mission with my homie Sam and a novelist who’s also a psychologist and Kent Zimmerman (who read from the unpublished biography of Seymour Butts). Litquake is kind of insane; unless you’re ...
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July 19, 2009
- I began working full-time at Red Room on June 1. And there are many wonderful things about working here--brilliant, inspiring colleagues and Red Room members, for instance. What's more, the offices are eight blocks from my apartment, so it takes me about 12 minutes to walk to work. I moved to San Francisco almost 20 years ago (I've moved away for a couple of short periods, but I've always come ...
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July 4, 2009
- In Armonk, New York, where I was raised, we celebrated the Fourth of July in the most traditional of ways: standing alongside Route 128, the road to Mount Kisco and Main Street all rolled into one, waving little American flags and watching the veterans, the baton twirlers, the volunteer fire department, and all the other town worthies march or drive past as we cheered. If I wished to, today I ...
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July 1, 2009
- While walking to work the last couple of days a completely insane bird has repeatedly swooped down on me as I crossed the street in front of my house. I was able to get a picture of the offending bird, which I'm including with this blog, and plan to forward to the bird police. Look at the bird, you can tell it’s crazy. I’m really fed up with the bird, and his or her inappropriate, ...
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June 21, 2009
- For an anthology* I recently wrote an essay about why the practice wasn’t cool in my Berkeley family — even though our 1969 Volkswagen bus was a hitch-hiker’s dream, even though it seemed everyone in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1970s was hitch-hiking. My parents were big city people who didn’t buy the hitch-hiking compact. Plus, hitch-hiking was at the heart of serial killer ...
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