From Mark Twain to Jack London to Jack Kerouac to Michelle Tea, San Francisco has always been a wondrous literary city.  Maybe it’s The City’s beauty or the fact that she’s always attracted misfits and weirdoes. Who knows, it’s almost impossible to explain where magic comes from. Nailing down where

Commune SF is happening again on 3/12  and it’s their biggest lineup yet! Bands, vendors and birthdays… oh my! Don’t miss out this Wednesday at the Elbo Room starting at 9 PM. As always, it’s FREE. WTF is Commune? It’s a movement of artists, designers, musicians and people that take

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.

The Musée Mécanique is a true San Francisco treasure. I’d try to describe them but they describe themselves best “as one of the world’s largest (over 200) privately owned collection of coin-operated mechanical musical instruments and antique arcade machines in their original working condition (You can play them!).” As you can imagine,

I’m excited to be reading at Red Light Lit again this Saturday! What is Red Light Lit? I’m glad you asked! As their site says: Red Light Lit is a literary journal and reading series that explores love, lust, desire and sexuality in the form of prose, poetry and song. Curated by

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!

If you are like me, you spend an embarrassing amount of time on Gchat, the messenger embedded within Google’s widely popular email application called “Gmail”. Perhaps you’re familiar? At any given moment I’m knee-deep in conversations with at least five different people, discussing all things mundane, hilarious, grave and deep.