Living in San Francisco

The rest of the coun­try just does­n’t have SF’s cul­ture. They have their own cul­ture, but after liv­ing here a while one starts to see things viewed through a San Fran­cis­co lens that every­one else just does­n’t get.

For exam­ple, I don’t think most peo­ple start laugh­ing when they read the words «Fruit Bas­ket of Amer­i­ca» in a piece of tourist literature.… Read the rest

On your knees for this proposition

Cal­i­for­nia can be a pret­ty wacky place some­times. It’s a pret­ty heav­i­ly polar­ized state polit­i­cal­ly, gar­ner­ing it a rep­u­ta­tion (depend­ing on who you ask) of extreme con­ser­vatism and of rad­i­cal lib­er­al­ism. It’s part of what makes it inter­est­ing to live here, and excit­ing to be a part of the vot­ing constituency.

I received in the mail today my vot­er pam­phlet. There’s a pri­ma­ry elec­tion com­ing up, and there are over a dozen propo­si­tions for us to vote on. Some of … Read the rest