San Francisco

18 Jan 2013

All Hail the King (of Thai)

  An open kitchen is generally a good harbinger on a culinary adventure.  Let there not be a wall between cook and diner, let the food be honest and its preparation for all to see.  And so it was that I entered King of Thai Noodle House (Clement @ 8th), the

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18 Jan 2013

Four Ways To Possibly Get Rid of Writer’s Block

OK so let’s just jump right into it, because I’m fucking bored, perpetually heartbroken this week, and just not really into anything. Usually that’s when I get my best writing done but lately all I can do is sit in bed and like, cry, or play this new-ish Simpsons game

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17 Jan 2013

Dispatches from the Road: An Insider’s Guide to Doing Adelaide, Australia on the Cheap

The rest of Australia can’t understand Adelaide.

We’re just too weird.

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17 Jan 2013

Czech out Cafe Prauge’s Block Party Tonight!

    Today seems like one of those Thirsty Thursdays. You know, when you’re already looking forward to happy hour before you’ve even had your first cup of coffee. Well – tonight you are in luck! Head over to Cafe Prague in the Financial District after work for the second

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17 Jan 2013

Social Studies Goes On Tour!

Have you heard this yet? Always good to hear new music from a great San Francisco band, and a rare treat to see it accompanied by equally great animation (done by Murder Doll House). Social Studies has been described as having an “arch take on modernist pop.” I prefer lead

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16 Jan 2013

Cheap Dates: The Five-Finger Date

You’re smart, sexy, and sophisticated. And cheap. Anyone would be thrilled to date you, which is why you don’t need to empty your pockets for someone else – in fact  leave those hands in those pockets because you’re going to take yourself out on a five-finger date. Whoever said that

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15 Jan 2013

Rickybobby’s Lower Haight Soul Food

                      Whichever way you say it, either with an outlandish French accent or with an exaggerated southern drawl, the phrase “Rickybobby” will heretofore be music to my ears, being now associated with great comfort food. It’s rare that I get

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