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24 Oct 2023

Targets Are Closing In SF, Oakland And Pittsburg… What Does That Mean For Each City?

Target is a perfectly fine place. I don’t have anything against Target or the people who shop there. I like their dog mascot with the red circle around its eye. I think it’s cute. And who doesn’t remember the “Blue Light Special?” Was that Target? I think it was. I’m

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19 Oct 2023

Halloween Costume Etiquette this Year

Halloween costumes can be fun, creative, meaningful, and/or festive. Halloween costumes also come with some caveats and the notion that what we wear and what others wear is a two-way street. 

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17 Oct 2023

SF and Oakland Are About To Get Cameras That Automatically Ticket You For Speeding

This may come as a shock to absolutely no one, but San Francisco is an exorbitantly expensive place to live. It’s a place where you can get your car stolen and somehow still have to worry about the sadistic MTA giving your stolen car a parking ticket. It’s a silly

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11 Oct 2023

How to Decorate Your Home For Halloween…Safely

Christmas may be the most wonderful time of the year for many people. However, an appreciable swath of the population say Halloween is where it’s at, especially as it gives opportunities for ingenious souls to indulge their creative passions, particularly when it comes to decorating.

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10 Oct 2023

Why Is Gavin Newsom Acting Like He’s Running For President?

It has become pretty clear to me that Gavin Newsom has his eye on the Oval Office. Why do I think that? Well, because he’s on national news all the time debating conservative politicians and talking heads. He’s also voting like someone who is afraid to look bad in a

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A person.
08 Oct 2023

This Trailer Park Outside Joshua Tree Is Everything

There’s Prince waltzing through the air over an astroturf-surrounded pool in the middle of the desert. A hot tub on a watchtower is directly above you, cold wind sweeping over your face and making frost of the splashes of water. There’s a giant ball pit, children and adults alike firing

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05 Oct 2023

Chilling Podcast ‘Spooked’ Haunts The Fox, Friday the 13th

True-life supernatural stories are told by guests who can barely believe they lived them.  The podcast is a bit like ‘This American Life’, only if Ira Glass was traveling the country in search of the mystic, the strange, and the divine, and his broadcast studio was also a totally haunted!

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03 Oct 2023

What Bumping Into Dean Preston & Elon Musk Made Me Realize About San Francisco

For a bustling metropolitan city filled with tourists, billionaires and bullshit; San Francisco certainly feels like a small town sitting somewhere on the edge of sanity. The place just doesn’t feel real. Where else in the country does a casual stroll allow you to cross paths with one of the

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