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Tomorrow, MurderingMouth moves to San Francisco. I would like to wish the whole Fresno crew a wonderful life. I’ll be back when the weekend is past with all the trials and tales of the move.

Whilst I try to maintain a maximum of 10 days worth of entries on the front page, I realize it’s been more than ten days since my last entry. Time sure drags on when you’re having fun.
No real excuses on the lack of updates. They’re definitely wanting. I’ve been busy and lots of stuff has [...]

An interesting exchange recently regarding the “love it or leave it” philosophy. Coincidentally, the Chronicle also published a rather candid reflection on San Francisco today as well… I knew David and I weren’t the only ones who have recognized the change in malls from one-size-fits-all shopping centres to specialized boutique villiages… Oh, I mean the change in cities from one-size-fits-all living and working [...]

Baby, Location’s What You Make It: An Early Reflection.

I left work tonight, heading for the subway for my commute home. I approached Market Street and suddenly noticed hundreds - nay, thousands - of people racing toward the Embarcadero.

I shuddered and my heart sank… Oh my gawd! I thought - what could it be? A bombing? Terrorists? Was there an earthquake and I didn’t [...]

There was just something disturbingly adorable about the two winos at the back of the bus.

They were cuddling and nuzzling one another and whispering sweet nothings at each other - almost as if to say “We might have no furniture or teeth and we smell like pee, but at least we have each other…”

Yes, Ma Ha Ta - it’s the trendy new name for Manhattan. Oh, didn’t you know? Things just aren’t edgy or interesting when you call them by their name - you have to abbreviate the name into something meaningless and stupid-sounding.

No Da in Charlotte started it, of course. It stands for “Not Dangling”, I think [...]

Ah… It’s nice that there’s someone putting money into this building - and a lot of it by the looks of the window treatments.
The Armoury was a place used by operative governments for the purpose of storing weapons that kill and maim people. But we, as free and enlightened sodomites, are taught to make use [...]

Just days after New York did it, San Francisco introduced a new park in the middle of what was once a street.
I actually like it. I’m still sometimes floored at how auto-centric even the densest neighborhoods in San Francisco are, and especially a touristy area like this, at Castro & Market has way too much [...]

I’ve spent about 7 years in San Francisco. I tend not to think about the past four years of my life as years spent in San Francisco, since the majority of my home life has taken place in NC and Pittsburgh, but in fact the majority of my time since 2005 has been spent in [...]

Excellent, excellent article (hat-tip, Jim Russell).
Trunk recognizes her condescension, but she also envies the people she’s judging. Because they’re happier.
This is the feeling I get every time I spend a weekend in Lawrenceville. “They po’ but they happy” is a quote David gave me. Of course, happy being subjective, are they really any happier than [...]