The City That Was: The Literary Obsession That Ate My Life
In The City That Was, Bohemian Archivist P Segal tells a weekly story of what you all missed: the days when artists, writers, musicians, and unemployed visionaries were playing hard in the city’s streets and paying the rent working part time. In the days before social media and online entertainment, people had a
Spectacles of Burning Man, Year One
You’ve already heard about how Burning Man made it to the Black Rock Desert, but I left off when the Cacophony Zone Trippers had crossed the line into the zone. The only spectacle we brought with us was the Man in the Ryder truck. We, and the vicissitudes of nature, were the spectacle. So you might wonder how we spent the long weekend with only one major entertainment on the agenda and our universally compromised budgets.
The City That Was: Cacophony Zone Trip #4 (Burning Man’s First Time In the Desert)
In The City That Was, Bohemian Archivist P Segal tells a weekly story of what you all missed: the days when artists, writers, musicians, and unemployed visionaries were playing hard in the city’s streets and paying the rent working part time.
9 Great Things to do in The Bay Area While All your Friends Are at Burning Man
Burning Man is here and people from all over the world are going to fly to a desert and do weird things and party. Not everyone is a “burner”, (I certainly am not one because I didn’t know that term existed until a couple of weeks ago) so we are
Grieving SF Comedy Superstars Recall Their Robin Williams Stories
Pretty much every Bay Area comedy or improv personality has a story of ‘that one time Robin Williams came to my show’. They all say he was hilarious, personable. sweet and forever willing to lend a hand to any random two-bit local performer’s event, with no personal financial gain for
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A History of Sutro Tower: The Alex Mak Architecture Series
Good evening, and welcome to Alex Mak’s San Francisco Architecture Exposé Part 1 of 4. In this series I learn about interesting buildings in San Francisco and then graciously tell you about them. Its like Ricky Gervais’ show An Idiot Abroad, only I won’t be travelling anywhere and I steal most of my material from the internet.
Etiquette for Using Slurs in a Post-Trannyshack World
Trannyshack flyer from 2010, redaction added My everyday casual slur use was rocked with the recent name change of the drag club formerly known as Trannyshack. Wait, a word that so adorably rhymes with “granny” has negative associations and is considered part of the hate speech vernacular? It’s not okay
How To Win Bay To Breakers
During my first Bay to Breakers in the city some 7 years ago, I was lucky enough to witness a scene that changed my life forever.