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Lapiztola
"A punk is someone who knows how to ask the world uncomfortable questions and does everything possible to make sure the world can't cop out of answering those questions. A punk is a person who lives and breathes astonishment. Astonishing other people and astonishing...
A Personal Mezcal Tasting
A mezcal tasting is a beautiful thing. I hope you have your chance. I interspersed quotes from some of my favorite authors throughout this essay in the hope of inspiring you to grab at the opportunity should it arise.Qué bonito y qué bonito How nice, I say how nice,...
Appreciating Oaxaca With Saul Bellow and Italo Calvino
[Pictures of Mitla courtesy of Rene Cabrerra, Las Bugambilias B&B Tours, Nikhol Esteras Photographer] “Spicy foods were [considered] stimulants. They were classified as stimulants, so they were on that same continuum along with caffeine and alcohol all the way up...
In Oaxaca
The day changes somewhere over L.A. on the red eye from San Francisco to Mexico City. I notice the first changes to my body when I arrive at dawn. Subtle changes. I’m tired but happy, relaxed. An ancient past begins to tug at my sleeve, pulls me away from where...
Mezcal Brings Out Cow Hollow Eatery’s Oaxacan Roots
Delarosa, the immensely popular bar and food hangout on Chestnut Street in the Cow Hollow District of San Francisco, has pulled off one of the greatest food heists of all time. Styling themselves as an Italian bistro with pizzas, salads, skewered protein, Panini...
JP’s Books
UPDATE: And now, there is this fascinating fact: New Study Links Reading More Books To Longer Lifespan I have a friend. Let’s just call him JP. He’s a little older than I am and much smarter. He’s cleaning house, disposing of the books he’s kept for years,...
I Am a Computer Simulation
I woke up this morning in a fright, woke up from a long dream in which I imagined I was a computer simulation. And now, and now I’m not sure if I’m dreaming this that I’m writing and if the dream was reality or the other way around. I’m not crazy. Please do not...
Cow Hollow Bartender Assaults Seniors
DORIAN bartender Jacob Ring, “Torito” to his friends, was up to his usual tricks Saturday night. The youthful looking thirty-eight year old was once again serving drinks to senior citizens as if they were normal people. No matter the four unsuspecting seniors were...
L’Osteria
I don’t do restaurant reviews. This is an exception. I expect there will be more. San Francisco is a special place for me. I remember as a young boy first visiting San Francisco with my father sixty years ago. He was the owner of a restaurant and hotel in the...
Reading Oaxaca
“In northern Mexico they work; in central Mexico they think; in southern Mexico they rest.” She was travelling to Oaxaca for a two-year olds birthday party, the daughter of her friend. Chocolate cupcakes and a wrapped present were in the carry on. Her eyes laughed...
A Few Comments About The Old Sea Gull Cellar Bar
The old Sea Gull Cellar Bar really was a cellar, a hole in the ground carved out below the dining room and accessed via a spiral staircase from inside the restaurant upstairs. That staircase was the bane of many waitresses and waiters who ran up and down to retrieve...
The Mendocino Shuffle
A few patrons and some of the staff referred to the Sea Gull Cellar Bar as The Meat Market or The Butcher Shop. This was a variant of the Mendocino Shuffle itself “a pun on the rather open sex life of many free-love folks at the time” and the inspiration for at least...