NOT KEEPING SCORE

After grooving to Anoushka Shankar in Stern Grove, only the toughest few brave the fierce wind and sandblasts at Ocean Beach for a Sunday afternoon BBQ …nothing more painful than sand in one’s beer ( -Oh, sweet Redhook! -the horror! )
What’s that? Someone forgot the meat? And knives? No utensils: no problem. Us vegetarians […]

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“HAPPINESS RUNS IN A CIRCULAR MOTION”
Such is the case tonight as rain’s fingernails scratch down my windowsill, customary wailings from lost sirens, strings of sighing traffic — a San Francisco swan song about to be sung.
There are globes of lights everywhere — glass orbs of water lit from the Party Store’s winking strobe, Christmas strings […]

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(Not to be confused with “spot” — that’s for another day’s lesson, kids.)
Today at Not Keeping Score the word is “good-bye,” I’m afraid. Now, before you can drop a tear, put up a hand, and yell “don’t go!” — breathe. NKS isn’t going anywhere. It’s only, I, your devoted author that is letting go of […]

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Left the house this morning dressed in a red unitard and 5-inch platform boots and stepped into the Tenderloin. The rest of my get-up consists of black hot-pants, thick rimmed glasses, and a “Locuter” lettering encircled on my chest. I am a super-villian of the highest caliber. My evil power? I spew forth big […]

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Being back in San Francisco, I have to admit, hasn’t felt the same.
After returning from (a scant) 2 weeks in Asia, something hasn’t been right. The city feels flatter, my enthusiasm has waned, and I crave change. I have dreams of pulling up roots and relocating; disconnecting from my life and turning hermit; overturning everything […]

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Dear Book-Nerd Readers,
There’s something wonderful about a library, don’t you think? And I don’t mean all the books and learning and shit. I mean that it commands its own quiet energy, connecting yet un-intrusive; that although this is a public space, there is a kind of imposed isolation, too. It’s the quiet:
“I am sitting […]

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When speaking of love, it is important to acknowledge — in addition to the things which one does love — that which one does not. You know, for the sake of balance. God forbid I write of yin while neglecting the yang.
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Scene: An apartment building in San Francisco. Morning. A […]

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A friend of mine just had his work posted on Wooster Collective, and I thought I’d follow suit. His name is Steve Ensminger, his website is Oddwall.com, and his photographs of street art around San Francisco are pretty damn fantastic.
I think you’ll enjoy.

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For a lit-geek such as myself, the whole JT LeRoy phenomenon is fascinating.
JT LeRoy was purported to be the newest literary celebrity who wrote a semi-autobiographical account of his experience as an abused homosexual afflicted with AIDS and spent time as a male prostitute until taken in by Laura Albert and her husband, Geoffrey […]

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Welcome to the season of New Gym Memberships!
Come January, many people scramble to join for that New Year’s Resolutions, burn off those extra chocolate-logged pounds and remake themselves in the image of, well, something better than themselves.
Guilty as charged. [Raising hand as the first to admit Me Too]
It should be obvious that gym memberships […]

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