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25 Mar 2014

Eating My Feelings: Why Yams are Terrible and Potatoes are Amazing

I hate yams because they straddle the line between savory and sweet with such limp optimism. Your mouth hopes the yam will take it in some definitive direction but no. It never chooses.

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14 Mar 2014

Win a Pair of Tix to the VIP pre-party for Disposable Film Festival!

If I recall, and I could be totally wrong, I’m pretty sure I was a sponsor of the very first Disposable Film Festival when it was playing at the Roxy Theatre. Now our little  film festival is all grown up and is doing its thing over at the Castro Theatre. What’s the

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11 Mar 2014

How to See Highway 1 By Bus: Eating and Traveling Bits of California’s Coast

I’m independent and I don’t own a car. If you’re a traveler like me, then you probably try to exhaust all resources before renting a car becomes an option. I find that you can sightsee more when you’re not worried about driving on a winding road along treacherous sea-hugging cliffs. I’m always

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03 Mar 2014

Win a Signed Copy of Broke-Ass Stuart’s Guide to Living Cheaply and a Dirty Limerick!

I figure it’s been awhile since I did a giveaway for what a few drunk bums in the public library consider the best book of all time, Young, Broke & Beautiful: Broke-Ass Stuart’s Guide to Living Cheaply. Plus if you win, I will sign it AND write a dirty limerick in it!

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12 Feb 2014

Broke-Ass Last Minute Ideas for Valentine’s Day

We’ve all been there, dude. You’re happily single, watching True Detective from a stolen source of cable, pretending the chicken in your fridge is still ok to eat, Peter Panning your way through life on a meager salary, when, BAMM! The perfect person comes along, and you’re screwed (literally and

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05 Feb 2014

A Broke-Ass Wedding Reception: Merriment On A Budget…

Our outdoor ceremony was 15-minutes: my mom walked me down the aisle and gave me away because my dad sucks balls, rings exchanged, vows exchanged (I left vows upstairs and was forced to wing it), some bawling, Iron & Wine “Lion’s Mane”, two renditions of Erik Satie’s “Gymnopedia No. 1”,

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23 Jan 2014

BA of the Week: Doctor Popular

Every week we feature a different person from the community shedding a little light on their life of brokeitude. Who knows, maybe you’ll learn something about the human spirit — probably not.

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23 Jan 2014

Get FREE Patagonia jackets from yerdle!

This post is sponsored by the fine folks at yerdle. Wanna sponsor a post or advertise on the site? Email me at info@BrokeAssStuart.com. Free stuff. That’s why you’re on the internet anyways right? I mean, everything online is free from music to movies to pictures of cats on LSD; all of

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