No Parking

Navigating the city’s complex parking restrictions can be a bit daunting. If you’re paying attention, most Department of Parking and Traffic enforcement signs quickly and effectively convey their message to anyone remotely concerned about the risk exorbitant fines or worse; the dreaded tow. However, this strangely confusing piece of public art, located in the city’s [...]

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After almost a month of weekend rains relegating me to the local bar for hot totties and scotch, today’s clear skies finally offered me the opportunity to wander the aisles of my local flea market for treasures. During the course of my rummaging, I stumbled on these earnest childhood renderings of local football legends. For [...]

Things That Rhyme With Tummy

The origin of the term ventriloquist comes from the Latin word for “belly speaker.” Back in ye olden days anyone talented enough to produce sounds with their stomach were thought to be prophets, able to foretell the future by interpreting these sounds as the voices of deceased spirits, taking up habitation in the luxury condo [...]

Forbidden Fruit

I have a fascination with the lives of dead people. Or put more appropriately, I am fascinated with the collected story of people’s lives, pieced together from the scattered remains of letters, loose photos and the collected objects of their interests. I usually fantasize about who these people were, how they lived their lives and [...]

Moving Pictures

With the holidays looming and my generally gloomy mood exasperated by a sagging economic outlook, I haven’t had much to write about. In search of inspiration I delved back into the archives and rediscovered the adventures of Steel-O-Man, which gave me an idea. I wonder what that guy is up to? Thankfully, cooking desserts for [...]

A Stitch In Time

Wanted

Usually I dread trips to the US Post Office. When I’m unfortunate enough to receive the manila colored delivery notice proclaiming I have a waiting package, I have to find time after work to travel to the local station and painstakingly wait in line with other frustrated customers while flagrantly aloof postal workers process packages [...]

Classes At The Main

A friend was handed this manifesto while buying a case of Kirin Ichiban at the corner store. Apparently created at the San Francisco Main Library on a schedule of available classes, the author (or unsung prophet) covers a range of themes seemingly common among the paranoid, such as government corruption, both historical and religious references, [...]

Will Bites Back

Some photos of a recent up cropping of posters by the now infamous ‘Natalie’s Dog Walking Service’, aka ‘Will’s Motorized Mountain Bikes’, aka ‘Paul’s Pro Painters’. Apparently Will’s custom canine orthopedics have evolved into something less favorable of the geriatric canine community his early posters sought to champion. And who can blame the man? Picture [...]

On the Heels of a Ghost

This post has been a long time in the making. For the last few years we’ve followed on the heels of a ghost. Starting with conjecture and probably more than a hint of fantasy, we’ve become consumed with the task of piecing together the fragmented story of (by all accounts) a seemingly unremarkable man whose [...]