In high school I considered myself quite clever for inventing "The Reeses' Defense". Since the famous TV commercial claimed that "There's no wrong way to eat a Reese's", I reasoned that if you robbed a bank while eating a Reese's that could serve as your legal defense.

Recently there were rumors that people would try to disrupt BART service, in ( Read more... )

I did something very embarrassing at the SF regional Rally to Restore Sanity yesterday ( Read more... )

This morning matrushkaka and I had breakfast at Swan's Oyster Depot, and noticed that See's Candies had been evicted from their 1519 Polk location. The landlord has posted a sign in the window explaining that this has happened because of See's Candies' contribution to the Enron-sponsored 9/11 attacks.


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I've been paying a lot of attention to the Presidential race and Prop 8 but I have no idea how to vote on the rest of them. So I'm publishing the Tongodeon Voter Guide, which is kinda like the voter guides in many other papers except that many of the blanks are filled in with my mostly uninformed opinions. If you've got a good argument for how I ( Read more... )

The big thing this year is the presidential election, but in San Francisco there's a local measure that's stayed out of the spotlight. This evening I was at the Mission PD community meeting (hi, steve23!) where I learned about Proposition K. Here's the relevant excerpt:


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Sweet merciful mother of all holy crap, Chicken John is running for mayor of San Francisco.
( His campaign announcement )

On Wednesday I said goodbye to gundam_sentinel and flew back to America. The flight was boring and uneventful. Played a bunch of Animal Crossing, which is apparently being turned into a movie in Japan. Back in the USA, I am no longer the tallest or worst-dressed person in sight ( Read more... )

ATTRIBUTIONDAMMIT!

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This weekend
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My friend Len is visiting San Francisco this weekend. He asked me for recommendations and things to do. It's been a while since I've spent significant time there, but here's what I could think of. Feel free to add your own suggestions. His friends are vegetarian, and they'd appreciate veggie suggestions.

• Stay the hell away from Fisherman's ( Read more... )