I’d forgotten how spectacularly sweet The Breakfast Club is, especially from a blanket on the hillside of Dolores Park, drinking beer and eating Delphina’s pizza and watching it on a giant screen with thousands of (stoned) people my own age, singing Simple Minds, booing Mr Vernon and howling and clapping when Judd Nelson does anything […]

I got no truck with that astrology nonsense, with cusps and seventh moons in their astral orbit or whatever. But looking back, something fancy must have been its ascendancy in June, what with successful pitches, marathons, recipe contests and not being eaten by a bear while skinny dipping in the wilderness (good times). Now that […]

Late last month, I found out I won the Morton’s Steakhouse Recipe Contest for my family’s grouper chimichurri, which entitles us to a page in their 2009 cookbook and a free trip to Chicago to have dinner with the owner. Yeah, I KNOW! How awesome is that? Although I’m a little worried about what in […]

I woke up this morning with this insanely guilty feeling, and I can’t figure out what it is. It’s driving me berserk, and I’m tired with all the pacing back and forth back and forth with the crazy. Did I forget someone’s birthday? Did I stand someone up by accident? Usually I just feel like […]

I got quite a few emails from people who have gone to see graphic movies with uncomfortable partners. Amanda was on a first date with a little skinny nervous guy when The Accused came out. “During the first scene, I thought he was going to crawl under the seat and die.” For that matter, I […]

My parents have been out for their First! Ever! visit to the big city San Francisco.
It’s taken some time, but I am glad to say that I am now fully recovered from the bout of hara-kiri brought on by a tumultuous theatre performance at the Magic. Imagine that you had purchased tickets to an exciting […]