Living on the Edge of Ripeness
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008 Posted in Books, Economics, Environment, Politics, San Francisco, The Arts, labor | No Comments »
Over Labor Day weekend, Slow Food came to San Francisco. That's Slow Food, capitalized, as opposed to fast food, lowercased. Its arrival was preceded by a petition calling for a ... Read more..Noodling on the News — V Is for Versailles
Friday, July 18th, 2008 Posted in Environment, MediaWatch, Noodling, Politics, San Francisco, Stories | No Comments »
[As always, click on a thumbnail image to see it more clearly.] On the third planet from the sun, the following appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle on July 13: The green ... Read more..Wall-E’s Song
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 Posted in Economics, Environment, MediaWatch, Movies, Politics, The Arts | No Comments »
(Warning: Contains a spoiler.) Once upon a time, in the not-too-distant future, the material world overwhelmed the physical world. In other words, there was so much garbage on earth that it ... Read more..It’s a Cat’s Life
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008 Posted in Environment, San Francisco, Stories | 1 Comment »
Just across Cesar Chavez from the "gritty Mission," Bernal Hill rises 433 feet into the sky. Perhaps because it has more than the city's usual allotment of open space, it's ... Read more..Man on a Tightrope
Friday, May 16th, 2008 Posted in Environment, MediaWatch, Politics, San Francisco | No Comments »
A jubilant Gavin Newsom stood beneath the great rotunda of San Francisco City Hall yesterday, surrounded by happy people celebrating the State Supreme Court's support for same-sex marriage. His reasons ... Read more..The Nature of the City
Monday, May 5th, 2008 Posted in Environment, MediaWatch, San Francisco | 2 Comments »
Dunes. One of my favorite mental exercises is to stand on a hilltop in San Francisco and try to imagine what the area looked like two hundred years ago. Erase ... Read more..