I stopped by Emily Lockhart’s blog today with my list of Boyfriends I Never Had (and Why We Would Make a Great Match). Discussed: Why Tony Blair (pre-Bush) lights my fire; my common ground (sex and church) with the alto god Nick Cave; Loyd Cole gets Nabokovian; Steve Forbert and the Mississippi connection; what Vince [...]
Sounds like apocalyptic fiction, but nope, it’s just the news. Maybe this gargantuan ice cube will make those who deny the relevance of global warming take note:
A giant ice shelf the size of 11,000 football fields has snapped free from Canada’s Arctic, scientists said.The mass of ice broke clear 16 months ago from the coast [...]
The godfather of soul died this morning. He was 73. Visit James Brown’s official website here.
Working to the end:
Brown was still touring, and was scheduled to appear at The Palace Theater in Waterbury, CT on Dec. 27. Despite his age, he had 31 scheduled shows between now and August 2007, many of them in the [...]
From Erie Chapman, editor of the National Literary Review:
I’m pleased to advise that the Winter edition of the National Literary Review is available online at www.nationalliteraryreview.org. This season’s edition features:
* Poetry by Karen Updike & Lauren Rooker
* A retrospective of Alfred Stieglitz photography
* [...]
That one was 3.7–but somehow, where I was standing (in my dining room in the Outer Richmond) it felt bigger. It was a quickie, a sharp jolt. See details at the US Geological Survey website. Epicenter Berkeley, where another 3.7 hit Wednesday night. The first was at 10:49, the second (2.2) at 11:11. Every time [...]
Just went online to shop at Banana Republic, and found that the site is down. So is the Gap and Old Navy. Are these companies just luddites, or is there some anti-consumerism hacker movement afoot?
If you’re running late on holiday shopping, here’s one spot where you won’t have to fight the crowds. Gus’s Bait & Tackle is a long, narrow space filled with odd trash-or-treasure stuff like ceramic kitty soap dishes, novelty pencils, off-brand sweatpants, potholders, coloring books, stuffed animals, and more. Cheap. It’s a great place to buy [...]
Stock up on books for 2007 at the Green Apple Warehouse Clearance Sale, Dec. 26, San Francisco:
On December 26, we will open the Apple Seed, our Warehouse Clearance Sale. We’ve rented a storefront just two blocks away from Green Apple in the old Busvan for Bargains building (248 Clement at 4th Avenue). We’re stuffing it [...]
Today in the Chronicle: A man who was sleeping last night on Ocean Beach died when the shifting sand buried and suffocated him.
Plus, straight out of Seinfeld, this injured-dolphin-meets-good-giant news from China:
The long arms of the world’s tallest man reached in and saved two dolphins by pulling out plastic from their stomachs, state media and [...]
