Tonight at Book Passage in the Ferry Building: Ellen Sussman and contributors to her latest anthology, Dirty Words, A Literary Encyclopedia of Sex. This book has been getting loads of bang-up attention, for good reason. It’s fun, it features some serious tar-power, and it probably contains a few positions, um, words, you don’t know. Come…Continue reading Ellen & Co.
Category: Fun-o-rama
mayhem and fun
The No One You Know launch last night at Books Inc. Opera Plaza was fabulous fun. We went through 20 bottles of wine in about half an hour, which is always a good sign. Ben Fong-Torres put together this video clip. (If you’re wondering what Ben Fong-Torres has to do with No One You Know,…Continue reading mayhem and fun
get your airstream on
Check out the fabulous new blog Real Americana, wherein David Wolking waxes poetic on everything from roadside carnivals (courtesy of the Electric Lion’s Club), to Mama Sim’s waffles, and Hormel’s Mary Kitchen Corned Beef Hash in a can. David and Misty (she’s my sister, and yes, that’s her real name, and yes, you wish you…Continue reading get your airstream on
your hot San Francisco weekend
It’s a scorcher today. Really. Best place to beat the heat is out in the avenues, where there’s a nice breeze to take the edge off. And if you’re one of those San Francisco people who tends to forget that our city has a coastline that stretches for miles along the Pacific, it might be…Continue reading your hot San Francisco weekend
inside the picture
Via artist Charley Parker’s art blog, lines and colors, here’s a wonderful piece of flash animation in which the artist enters the animation in clever ways. I came across lines and colors by way of Parker’s other website while trying to figure out how to draw a dinosaur for my son. Because when a three-year-old…Continue reading inside the picture