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.

Win tickets to what amounts to the World Series of fighting robots. Yeah, you read that right.

Last time Halloween fell on a Monday was in 2005.  San Francisco is a town that likes to run through the streets in costume, so Halloween was pretty much from Thursday to Monday.  I fear it will be the same this year.  This is what I ended up writing at the culmination of it all in 2005.

Halloween can be painful– and for reasons besides buying bags of mini-candies at the drugstore, eating them all at once while lounging in bed watching Netflix, and subsequently worrying about tummy aches/lack of dental insurance/pants button-popping (haaayyy).  Rather, Halloween can be a financial pain for people on a budget, a.k.a.

Don’t you hate those mornings when you wake up and the first thing you think is how it’s been way too long since you saw Too $hort perform? I know, me too! It’s the worst. Lucky for you, I’ve got a pair of tickets to give away to the Oakland

In the words of one of my favorite articles to ever grace McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, IT’S DECORATIVE GOURD SEASON MOTHERFUCKERS!  That means that you’re picking last year’s food off the sweaters you stashed away without washing first, and you probably have a shit ton of apples because one of your friends

Although it’s incredibly tempting to put your baby to sleep, go around the corner to the local pub for a PBR, and sneak back before your baby knows you’re gone, you never know what neighbor might be spying on you at that very moment and whether or not CPS has