It’s a holiday party at my house. My buddy, Pete, says you’re a good dude whose entire family is back East. No need to worry about being alone during the most joyous time of year because any friend of Pete’s is a friend of mine. Get to know us and our families,…
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Nothing worse than that feeling of missing the last BART home. But my being a little bit tipsy and zoned out on my cell phone got me into this mess. So, I ascend from the station to let the cold wind sober me up enough to snap out of it. I hail…
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to talk to someone you don’t even know for a moment of fun and to let someone grow we met in a space where they stop on a dime she gave me a nickel and a moment of her time she worked for some Joe’s trading posts for food yes, I’ve a…
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I was out for my Saturday morning run when I came to a big intersection on Meridian and stopped to wait for the light. Then I felt strange, short of breath, heart pumping. Next thing I knew you were honking at me because I had run into the street with cars going…
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“Fuck you!” yelled the enraged half-naked man from across the dry creek, where he stood in front of his tent like the senile grumpy geezer of the neighborhood. He paused for 30 seconds and followed up with basic vulgar insults about how my girl is a whore and how my dog ain’t…
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I’d never had the time to really read your newspaper before, but tonight I sat down at a restaurant and read it while waiting for our takeout. I thought it was interesting, it had a bit of class to it and appealed to an educated audience. I was enjoying it until I…
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I loves me some Cirque du Soleil and was looking forward to seeing a show in San Francisco for a change. It was media night, and I was using my trusty camera phone to take photos to run with my write-up. Then you, the guy in the seat next to me, yanked…
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I was rushing from a downtown coffee shop to a hair appointment a few blocks away when you stopped me. “Hey miss, I must tell you something,” you said with enough urgency to make me pause. “Yes, can I help you?” I reply, thinking perhaps you needed directions or something like that.…
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It’s crowded in this trendy bar, filled with trendy millennials that Lime scootered in droves from their tech campuses for the warm social climate and happy hour prices. Tech money is what you need to buy drinks around here, I suppose? Sixteen bucks for an old-fashioned? No, thanks. I’ll just have a…
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It puzzles me how you have enough clout to work for a premier comedy club. A couple of weeks ago, I attended your impromptu sidewalk interviews, during which you trash-talked a prior interviewee. Afterward, you walked me over to a co-worker who told me she would send me an email with a…
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