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Mar.20.2013 Be Bad, Do Good Posted on December 3, 2012 I found twenty dollars blowing on the downhill slope of Green Street into Chinatown and North Beach on a Saturday night, folded tight for a night out on the town, still warm, deliciously anonymous. We spent it immediately, on one of those chopped salads at...	Nov.18.2012 Apu, the World, and the Rest of My Life A boy called Apu and his creator, Satyajit Ray, changed my life. It was only yesterday, give or take a few decades, when I plunged into the world of Apu and my love of India – and of all things foreign, exotic, different from...
Feb.05.2011 A Night at The BEAT in San Francisco Attended a literary event at the Beat Museum this past Thursday evening. It was billed a Regent Press Moment at the Beat. Featured were several Regent Press authors namely Joseph Arthur (ANOTHER LEAP INTO BLACK), Robert Balmanno (RUNES OF IONA), Janine Canan (GODDESSES, GODDESSES) and Dona Nieto (...	Feb.02.2011 Sheila's death was a bigger loss than I could have imagined Sheila and I spent the 70's together. We met as teachers at Foch Junior High School on Detroit . I liked Sheila and asked her out to lunch. At lunch she told me she didn't especially like white people so I backed off until the end of the school year's picnic She accepted a ride on my...
Jun.03.2010 Deets Shanahan wins it by a mile There are detectives and detectives, but there's only one Dietrich (Deets) Shanahan. I met him quite by accident, because his friend, OK creator, Ron Tierney was coming to dinner one day, not long after I married my way into San Francisco from the east coast. "Well, you'd better read one of...	Dec.20.2009 Daniel Yaryan Featuring @ Gallery Cafe January 4th Daniel Yaryan will read from near the turnstiles of cable cars and their permeating clangs at the corner of Mason and Washington Streets in San Francisco (1200 Mason St). Yaryan will be featuring at Gallery Cafe's "All Poets Welcome" reading on Monday, January 4 @ 7 p.m. He's bringing in...
Jul.17.2008 The Tossup at Tosca I wonder who got my book at the Redroom mixer at Tosca on Tuesday? Somebody had to get it. It wasn't there by the time I left. People got to choose the book that they walked out of there with. That kind of bummed me out for some reason. I was kind of hoping that the Redroom staffers would foist my...