living in SF

Productivity FAIL

I never get any work done when it's shorts weather in SF. All I want to do is walk halfway up Buena Vista and lie out on my fallen log in the sun with my iPhone stuck on Bon Iver.

Corin

Lonesome Day

I thought a lot about Joan today. She's not the first girl to say "I don't want to fuck you up" right before doing some damage, but she took me on quite a ride. Some of my favorite things in SF I picked up

living in SF

God, I Love October in SF

Of course, nothing can beat last October, for a few years at least, but I love this month in San Francisco. It's hot, dammit, and we only get that once a year, for a couple months, peaking in October. There is no people watching like Dolores Park on

living in SF

Seeing All of San Francisco at Once

I'm always trying to sum up San Francisco – to grok all of it at once. Standing on top of this mountain in the middle of the Bay, looking out at all of this city, from Berkeley to the Golden Gate Bridge to Tiburon and back, I'm

outdoors

Angel Island Sunrise

Not a bad place to wake up, if you have to be up at dawn.

holidays

Pumpkin Carving

No trick or treating this year. We're missing most of the Halloween parties tomorrow night because we'll be camping on Angel Island for Ash's birthday. I've wanted to do it for a long time, and when I told Ash the only reservation

DC

That First Night

The day St. Frances, Diego and I signed our lease was one of those hot, still days in the City. Not a cloud in the sky, almost 80 in late August. Everyone was out. Shorts, skirts, beers on the sidewalk, runners, hipsters and yuppies walking up and down Divis -

writing

Title and Art Credit

I really didn't want to name this blog "365 Days of San Francisco." My style is far too prosaic as it is. Something about Fog City really appeals to me. SF has so many nicknames. "Frisco" is hated; "The City by the Bay&

Corin

365 Days of San Francisco

I got the idea for this blog from my friend Corin. He's an amature photographer – a very good one – but about a couple years ago he decided to try something a discipline to get better: He'd take a photo per day, and post it to Facebook.

work

Not in The Way You Think

I get to say that I'm a writer, but not in the way you think. The kind of writing I'm trying to do with this blog, with my unpublished stories, that doesn't pay the bills. That's the dream, of course. To be

living in SF

Don't Look Down

The word I've used most to describe my first year in San Francisco is vertiginous. When I left DC I had a few simple goals: write more, don't let work take over my life, get healthier, and meet new girls. Since I moved in, I'

living in SF

One Year In

San Francisco – overgrown with nasturtiums and dizzy-headed startup starz – San Francisco doesn't feel like home yet. Sun-bleached and fog-soaked, filthy and freewheeling, blooming, grinding, singing lullalabies to lesbians, San Francisco strains and slumbers. She is a wild, untamed seductress. She reaches out with her forest of kelp fronds,