FREE BOOKS! FREE BOOKS! FREE BOOKS!
You already know how I feel about libraries. But here is something even more miraculous. The Bay Area FREE Book Exchange in El Cerrito (North of Berkeley) is a cooperative run by local booksellers/booklovers. It is literally a ‘œstore’ full of FREE books. Whenever I’m in a store and an
Berkeley’s Urban Ore: The Best in East Bay Salvage
One of my old roommates gets immediately overwhelmed by large, overstocked stores. As soon as she enters a thrift shop, a library, or a salvage yard, she has to pee’”it’s some sort of physiological phenomenon triggered by clutter. For her, Urban Ore is the worst (the bathrooms are nothing to
The Pleasures of Jade Walking and Soundwalk Audio Tours
One of the joys of living in a large city is that most of the time you don’t have to own a car. Sure I’m not eligible for the Cash for Clunkers deal, but I also don’t have to pay attention to gas prices while the rest of the country
North Beach Poetry Crawl and Being Tired of Trash in Dolores Park
I was walking through Dolores Park yesterday and truthfully I was quite appalled at the total mess left behind by people. Seriously, get it together people! I don’t know what you think is going on in the park but we are SO FUCKING LUCKY to have it and I’m tired
