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Commented on Locally Manufactured Items Sighted (Briefly) In Union Square
I've been enjoying locally manufactured items from San Francisco several times a week for the past couple of decades: beer from Anchor Brewing Company. There are always a few bottles of Anchor Steam in my fridge on any given day....
Commented on Staff Cuts Hit SF Weekly: At Least Four Laid Off Today
It appears that W. Blake Gray's last SFoodie blog posting was "What's Your Death Row Last Meal?" Ironic?...
Commented on Muni Says They'll Crack Down On Drivers Who Leave You Hanging
Oh, I should point out that this isn't new. Maybe someone at MUNI cared way back in the Seventies, but the top brass at MUNI haven't cared for thirty years....
Commented on Muni Says They'll Crack Down On Drivers Who Leave You Hanging
MUNI doesn't care....
Commented on Weekend Traffic And Transit Disruptions: Critical Mass, Carnaval, Holiday Parking
Note that BART is doing maintenance work on the Transbay tunnel this weekend and next weekend with possible delays of up to 40 minutes. More info at www.bart.gov http://www.bart.gov/news/articles/2011/news20110524.aspx...
Commented on San Franciscans A Lot Older Than You Think, Which Could Cause Real Problems
One way to help out is to donate to and/or volunteer for Meals On Wheels (www.mowsf.org). My guess is that in Fiscal 2011 (ending June 30, 2011), this group will deliver over a million meals. Disclaimer: I am not affiliated...
Commented on Is The Chronicle Turning On SFGate Commenters?
I do. I basically posited the same thing and no admin replied to me. It's the second most popular comment on that blog entry (52 thumbs up, 6 thumbs down). Perhaps it's sheer coincidence, but shortly after I posted my...
Commented on Is LGBT Burnout To Blame For Castro Bookstore's Closing?
My guess is that it is a combination of factors, perhaps many mentioned in the original post, but also other factors like rent (as noted by 5kip471). I doubt there's just *one* reason why this business is failing. They probably...
Commented on Giants Home Game Hints: Transit, Parking, Homophobia
Gripes? Nine dollar beers. Anyhoo, go Giants!...
Commented on Internet Etiquitteist: People Keep Defriending Me On Facebook
You still use Facebook?...
Commented on Bay Area Organizations Raise Funds For Japan Disaster Relief
The Tohoku quake is a magnitude 9.0. Initially classified as a magnitude 8.9, it was independently upgraded by the Japanese seismologists as a magnitude 9.0. USGS seismologists have evaluated the event and updated their findings. http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=2727&from=rss_home...
Commented on Weekend Watch: Lions, and Beasts, and Gods! Oh My!
I think it's worth pointing out that spring is the graveyard for Hollywood movies. There are sometimes some good indie films, but when Hollywood lays a turd, it is relegated to a spring release so it doesn't get quashed by...
Commented on Weekend Watch: Lions, and Beasts, and Gods! Oh My!
I concur. The "Beastly" review is wonderful as well....
Commented on Things San Franciscans Like: Moving To New York
It is highly unusual for California natives to move to New York. It's more common for transplanted Midwesterners to spend a few years in SF, then move elsewhere....
Commented on Donate Blood, Win Movie Passes
If I recall correctly, the Stanford Blood Center gives a pair of movie tickets each time you donate, without a lottery or drawing. They also give out Sports Basement discount coupons and t-shirts (I always turn down the latter)....
Commented on Eating And Drinking Ban On BART: Does The Policy Matter?
Caltrain passengers seem to be able to handle food and drink fairly politely. Are BART riders different? Is there some sort of weird distortion field at the fare gate in Millbrae?...
Commented on Susie Cagle's SF: Muni Keeps Getting Worse
Karl is right. I have repeated suggested that local transit agencies hire people from Japan/South Korea/Switzerland. Those guys get it. Whomever MUNI/Caltrain/BART/VTA/SamTrans/etc. hires simply doesn't get it....
Commented on Susie Cagle's SF: Muni Keeps Getting Worse
Scratch that, three decades....
Commented on Susie Cagle's SF: Muni Keeps Getting Worse
MUNI's decline has been going on for the better part of two decades....
Commented on Things San Franciscans Like: Food
Well, it's up to San Francisco voters to put the right people in office. Elected officials reflect the tastes and interests of the constituency (well, at least the ones who voted). When you have some like Chris Daly in office...
Commented on Things San Franciscans Like: Food
Note that the Japanese and South Koreans have marvelous public transportation *and* tasty cuisine....
Commented on Man Arrested After Allegedly Entering Fire Station And Posing As Firefighter
Hmmm, maybe I will try this on the set of a porn movie....
Commented on SF Parking Enforcement Revenue Continues 5 Year Slide, MTA Promises More Tickets Even As Their Flagship Program Promises Fewer
Can't we get Katie to chip in a little more? We already know she's good for it......
Commented on SF: America's Third Drunkest City?
Great! If we ever meet in person, Eve, I will buy you a drink. Maybe several. Just to eff up the statistics. OK, so we have concluded that that these are self-reported statistics. Why don't we talk about about penis...
Commented on SF: America's Third Drunkest City?
Just twelve?!?...
Commented on Virgin Crash Result Of Big Rig Hit And Run
Virgins in SF?!? They gotta be tourists, right?...
Commented on Ask the Appeal: Can Stores Charge You To Use A Credit Card?
Funkbomb is correct. If merchants are going to offer the convenience of credit card transaction, they need to accept the fact that some people will use them for small payments. Unless you're in Israel, where everyone uses credit cards and...
Commented on Chron Publishes Confusing (To Eve) Anti Cell Phone In Bra Op Ed
How does the metal hardware affect reception? What if the bra clips on the front? And more importantly, how about underwire bras. Do those act like antenna extenders or more like a Faraday cage? Any chance of perspiration tripping the...
Commented on We're Screwed: Report Says That If Quake Damage Doesn't Get Us, Fire Just Might
No surprise here. The vast majority of the damage from the 1906 Earthquake was due to fire....
Commented on Ask the Appeal: Will I Be Booted From AT&T Ballpark If My Shirt Says, "FUCK"?
Actually, one young lady got national television coverage, etc. when she attended the Eagles-Saints divisional playoff game wearing a t-shirt that said "Fuck Da Eagles." And she wasn't alone. She claimed that there were seven or eight in her group...

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Keith commented on Is LGBT Burnout To Blame For Castro Bookstore's Closing?
I am a proprietor of Common Language, an LGBT bookshop in Ann Arbor, MI. I could not possibly comment on whatever may have been the cause or causes of the closing of ADL. I know we are challenged, but surviving. I mainly want to reiterate what Michael Thomas Ford says on the subject of the gay story. Many years ago, before acquiring Common Language I remember walking by the window the store and admiring the rather alluring cover of Lev Raphael's first collection of stories, Dancing on Tisha B'av. Though a prodigious reader, AND attracted to the cover, I avoided...
Espresso70 commented on Is LGBT Burnout To Blame For Castro Bookstore's Closing?
I can't speak to LGBT lit. issue- an audience is an audience and they will usually be very loyal. I find the mistake that most bookstores make, and this may be the case with both bookstores mentioned in the article or it may not, is that they decide who their clientele is and they make it a club. As we all know clubs only exist for two reasons: to include and to exclude and any business that excludes has to accept that it may not be in business forever. I worked in bookstores for a long time. All sorts of...
Michael Petrelis commented on Is LGBT Burnout To Blame For Castro Bookstore's Closing?
well, one good thing that's come out of the closing is hearing fresh words from lots of good gay writers about the store, it's past, the state of gay publishing and gay bookstores, and the telling of our stories, and what it all means for the community. after reading thomas roche's piece, all i could think about were the recent changes in the castro - from the ADL shuttering, HRC moving into milk's old camera shop, the castro theater going dark for eight-nights in april, castro country club struggling to stay open and buy its building, etc - and something...
thomvernon commented on Is LGBT Burnout To Blame For Castro Bookstore's Closing?
Very thoughtful article. Last year I published a novel (gay author, queer themes) but not a lot of gay sex, per se. Some, but that s/s sex wasn't the book. Gender was the major theme. Major character a trans-dad. I could not get ADL interested in having me in. Eric over at Bird & Beckett was gracious enough to have me in. I'm a California queer, exiled to Canada so that I can live with my s/s, Zimbabwean partner. ADL wouldn't return my calls or emails; nor my publisher's publicist. I had always dreamed of reading at ADL, then, to...
DavidGroff commented on Is LGBT Burnout To Blame For Castro Bookstore's Closing?
The Different Light stores were pathetically bereft of books, with no depth of stock, no vision, no inventive commitment to community. They and shops like Lambda Rising (also defunct) missed a huge opportunity to grow into a real national resource online and via bricks & mortar, and then they fell victim to the mainstreaming of gay identity; queer people don't reflexively turn to books anymore to figure out who they are, no matter what writers and certain activists like to think. Stores like ADL will persist in somewhat smaller cities where you need a queer community space, if not a...

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