when i was a kid, fellow southern californians were obsessed with The Big One—it was not only inevitable, it was immediately imminent—and i ...

CONSUMED: A PARTIAL LIST. the few (play). joe and i saw samuel d. hunter's the whale at playwrights horizons two winters ago; we ...

08.10.10 THUNDERTOME : ROUND 21 SURVIVOR: tree of smoke (denis johnson)* CHALLENGER: last night in twisted river (john irving) here'...

06.15.10 weekend project the second was rehabbing a frame for the hand-printed ac newman poster i bought from nate duval at last year'...

05.19.10 THUNDERTOME : ROUND 16 SURVIVOR: let the great world spin (colum mccann)* CHALLENGER: further tales of the city (armistead maup...

05.12.10 THUNDERTOME : ROUND 15 SURVIVOR: let the great world spin (colum mccann)* CHALLENGER: more tales of the city (armistead maupin) ...

05.10.10 THUNDERTOME : ROUND 14 SURVIVOR: let the great world spin (colum mccann)* CHALLENGER: tales of the city (armistead maupin) like...

02.17.10 THUNDERTOME : ROUND 6 SURVIVOR: chronic city (jonathan lethem)* CHALLENGER: the spellmans strike again (lisa lutz) i spotted a c...

07.17.08 the dirty dozen, part three: the latest issue of the ladymag is dead and you, dozen, you are next 07 my friend meg , a sort-of new...

04.23.08 the dirty dozen, continued: california roll 04 as i twittered when we first got down to san francisco last tuesday, joe found us ...

04.24.03 today's san francisco moment: hopping the bus after leaving my car with the mechanic and seeing not one, not two, but three sep...