I live in an enviable corner of the world, the San Francisco Bay Area. But living in any place for an extended period of time, no matter how great, forces you to confront the inevitable drawbacks to any place. I have separate lists for San Francisco and Oakland, but in general, they could stand to [...]
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Posted on June 25th, 2008 by JM
I’m starting a series about San Francisco’s most lovable weirdos. This is the first installment.
About four years ago, I was waiting in the Daly City BART station (don’t ask) to head back home. That was the first time I saw the woman whom I affectionately call the screaming BART station lady. She was a petite [...]
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Posted on June 24th, 2008 by JM
I lived in some of the coldest, most desolate, coal-mining regions of Eastern Europe, where people weren’t so much pale and blonde as they were washed out from the lack of nutrients. And there friends and I saw a curious phenomenon: the one of Transpanic Tanorexics.
If I had a zloty for every woman with glossy [...]
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Posted on June 23rd, 2008 by JM
One of the most bizarre and campy movies I’ve ever seen was Russ Meyer’s Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, a 1965 release that was remastered and rereleased in 1995 in indie movie houses for its 30th anniversary. I remember being blown away by the clever dialogue and overly buxom (and violent) femmes starring in this cult [...]
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Posted on June 20th, 2008 by JM
I just saw on Drudge that 3 polls show Obama with a lead over McCain in November. Drudge then shows a beaming John McCain with the caption “Underdog!”
I’m wondering what the general effect of being declared the frontrunner or underdog does to your candidacy. I’m sure there are countless examples of the rule being broken, [...]
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Posted on June 18th, 2008 by JM
In order to deal with a bunch of comment spam (which come in droves, always repeating variations on the words “viagra” and “slut”), I’ve found reCaptcha and have put its Wordpress plugin on my blog. I think it’s an ingenious service: it forces you to write the correct spelling for two words. One is a [...]
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Posted on June 17th, 2008 by JM
There’s something about a soulless old man who shoots his friends in the face and wears a snarl most of the time that makes him the ideal butt of jokes. Man, I love a good Cheney joke.
So while this Machiavellian monster’s carefree trampling over human rights will soon be over, I have to admit I’ll [...]
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Posted on June 16th, 2008 by JM
That makes it the sixth country (after the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Canada and South Africa) to legalize same-sex marriage.
In the US, only Massachusetts has allowed it until now. California joins next week.
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Posted on June 13th, 2008 by JM
Had a short but interesting conversation at work about gay marriage and who its proponents and opponents are.
I’ve absorbed enough of the national dialogue to recognize some patterns. Some are obvious; some are subtle. Here are the types of people that are against gay marriage:
1) Christian fundies - Of course, an easy one. This group [...]
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Posted on June 12th, 2008 by JM
My sister-in-law sent a link to this NYT video on “flavor tripping parties”, where you eat a bunch of normally very sour things but taste them as sweet. How? You first suck on a miracle berry for about a minute; a natural ingredient in the miracle berry temporarily alters your taste buds to perceive sour [...]
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Posted on June 11th, 2008 by JM
