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21 Nov 2013

Win This Rad Alite Backpack AND Check Out Their Holiday Sale!

My friends over at Alite Designs do awesome stuff. They’ve basically taken the idea of creating gear for the outdoors and made it more simple and stylish. I mean just take a look at the Sexy Hotness Sleeping Bag. It’s been designed so that you can zip as many sleeping bags together as

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19 Nov 2013

Harajuku Heartbreak: Notes and Observations on Traveling Through Japan

This photos sums up Japan rather well My good friend Sato is a Japanese-American who now lives in Japan. A few  years ago I had a dream that he was getting married. While he wasn’t at the time I decided that when he did get married I would attend the

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18 Nov 2013

Dispatches From The Road: Getting Your Feet Wet at Noah’s in Puerto Vallarta

Ah, Puerto Vallarta. San Franciscans may be delusional about the clemency of their own weather, but when it comes to doing the tropical beach getaway, nothing short of paradisal will do. Yes, tourist trap and cruise ship destination it is, but Puerto Vallarta and its surrounding Bahía de Banderas maintain

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15 Nov 2013

Vanessa’s Dumpling House: So Damn Cheap, So Damn Good!

Food is absolutely amazing! It can pick you up when you are feeling down, help celebrate life’s Hallmark moments, bridge the gaps between cultures and most of it fuels your body! With that being said, it is obvious we need food…right?! But what if you are strapped for cash? You

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14 Nov 2013

DIY: Five Easy Bottle Cap Crafts

Rat Fink Bottle Cap Charm by VixenVendetta It makes sense that the DIY-ers and the Environmentalists get along, both are founded on a founding principle of reuse, recycle, renew. DIY is less about compost and sustainable food and more about finding a new uses for things, or repurposing items into

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12 Nov 2013

The Amazing and Ridiculous Things Drunk People Forget in Bars

Where on earth did he leave it? I bartend a few nights a week. It’s what I do to pay the bills since being a writer is obviously not where the money is at. The other day I found a hoodie that someone had left at the Golden Gate Tap

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11 Nov 2013

What Does It Mean to be Broke?

At the moment, I have enough money to get by. That means I can survive on the bare minimum. Over the last 27 years of my life, money has come and gone, mimicking life’s peaks and valleys. And just like life, I won’t complain about its ups and downs because

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08 Nov 2013

FREE Comedy Tonight: Fortress of Attitude Apartment Comedy Show

Guess who’s back? It’s New York’s own Fortress of Attitude! Pat Stango, Clayton Gumbert and Gregg Zehentner are hosting another laugh-out-loud apartment comedy show tonight. And guess what? Your broke-ass is invited to laugh, get wasted, and make good used of their liquid soap. (I’m told they have buckets of

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