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Archive for July, 2007

All of a sudden, the blogs and news sites are filled with Alex and Ruby. Take a look at these two. They are the best:
Fog City Journal. A personal account of Alex’s grand opening complete with lots of pictures. Looks like every important person in the Newsom administration attended. I’m beginning to think Alex still [...]

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Just a quickie. Click here for a first-hand account of the opening of Alex Tourk’s consulting firm. After reading this you may agree that he should be running against Gavin.
Too bad his popularity hasn’t rubbed off on Ruby and her book. Maybe she can con him into endorsing it.

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Today’s Honolulu Advertiser carried a column by Peter Boylan headed “Fame $$$, good looks—so what?” The title alone caught my eye so I read the whole thing to find out what this guy was talking about.
Imagine my pleasant surprise to discover that he wrote about things I’ve puzzled over for years.
He opened by describing the [...]

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I stumbled across Emily Morse’s blog “Sex with Emily” on 7×7sf today. After forcing my self to read every single word and study every single picture in every single blog, I was on the verge of calling the moving company and heading back to SF.
Here’s a sampling of the topics she covered: swinging, small town [...]

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We need a rehab program with strenuous interventions for talking heads addicted to asking stupid questions and politicians addicted to solemnly answering them.
In case you haven’t noticed, some of the questions are so dumb even a caveman could come up with them. Others are dumber still, requiring the skills of a squid, And at the [...]

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I’ve noticed a new buzz phrase finding its way into the media lately. I call it the “fill in the blank” excuse. The following example illustrates how it goes:
A highly-popular professional football player is arrested for his involvement in the illegal and cruel activity some call dog fighting. When asked how they felt about the [...]

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It’s Saturday and sports rules the air and cable waves. Right now I’m watching one of those little-known sports called “bull riding,” usually seen only by Texans, Arizonans, and other inhabitants of the Western states.
I like rodeos for a couple of reasons. Every little boy dreams about being a cowboy at one time or another [...]

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