Travel Writings

07 Oct 2015

Love & Hate at the Museum of Broken Relationships

“J’espere ne plus jamais faire souffrir Quelqu’un comme je t’ai fait souffrir Moi qui aimais tellement ton sourire” -Manu Chao, La Vie a Deux We have all been dumped in some way- romance ends, tragedy strikes, people leave and there we stand at the end of the journey, alone. Broken

Kit Friday -Mild in the Streets 0
25 Sep 2015

30 Days Micro-Dosing with LSD

“Now I understand why all the flower children from the ’60s eventually sold out,  bought houses and watch Fox News.” That’s a snippet from my journal entry on day ten of my experiment. The experiment in question is micro dosing with LSD—that is, ingesting a tiny dose of lysergic acid diethylamide every

Dan Nazarian - Uninformed Informant 0
14 Sep 2015

Forgotten cowboy slang we should all use again

CATAWOMPUS: Fiercely, eagerly, awry, cockeyed, crooked, skewed.

Example of a modern-day use: “Yeah, I don’t know how to feel about last night. She took one look at me without my clothes on, told me I was all catawompus down there, made me wear kitty ears and told me to go for it.”

Rae Bathgate - Down and Out and Overseas 0
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03 Sep 2015

7 Bay Area Adventures on a Budget

Remember that ad for herpes medication with the woman in a canoe announcing ‘I have genital herpes’ on a mountain lake? Or this CITI Bank ad where professional climbers put their gear on a credit card? We’re supposed to believe that these are the faces of adventure: good looking white people

Cut-Rate Curmudgeon 0
07 Aug 2015

The Burning Man of Europe is a Trip : Nowhere

If you live in San Francisco, chances are that you’ve heard of the Burning Man festival. If you haven’t been, chances are that, come August, you take a sabbatical from social media and stop talking to half the city to avoid hearing the word “dust” too many times. If you

Guest Writer 0
27 Jul 2015

The 10 Oldest Bars in the World

Let’s go back 1,000+ years and explore history through some of the finest drinking establishments known to man. Do you like history, witchcraft, and booze? Well, this is the article for you.

Rae Bathgate - Down and Out and Overseas 0
06 Jul 2015

10 Cheap Ways to Cure A Hangover

Ok…so the deed is done. You’ve heard all the ways to avoid getting too sick before and while drinking alcohol, and you’ve fucked them all up. You haven’t eaten anything, the only water you drank all day is the backwash you accidentally swallowed from your toothpaste, and all you’ve been

Rae Bathgate - Down and Out and Overseas 0
30 Jun 2015

What People in Europe Say About San Francisco

I’ll admit it, I totally use the fact that I briefly lived in San Francisco to sound cooler (seems impossible, seeing my level of coolness, right? WRONG). I’m also willing to bet that if you ever make the stupid mistake of leaving the Bay Area, you will too. In Europe

Rae Bathgate - Down and Out and Overseas 0