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Cool little SF magazine run by the lovely and wicked smaat Jennifer Elks. The current issue features Bernal Hts. and also some music and book reviews from YOURS TRULY....
San Francisco Bicycle Coalition
Find a great SF bike map (a pdf file) here as well as hints on how to co-exist with cars on the streets of San Francisco.
The Orange and Brown Report
From Brian Sipe to Brian Brennan to Charlie Frye I am a Cleveland Browns devotee. This site, courtesy of Beau Timken (of True Sake in Hayes Valley), is a comprehensive look at the Browns.
Noise Pop '06
Don't worry if you didn't get out the white belt and ride your fixed gear track bike down to the club to check out Noise Pop. SPIN's Melissa Goldstein gives you the low-down as SF played host to some of the best indie acts alive.
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John Updike: Rabbit Redux
Even though his latest novel, "Terrorist" has been panned, Mr. New Yorker's fine Rabbit Quartet still gives us our best, and most disturbing, portrait of the modern, somewhat superfluous, man. A former high school hoops star finds life a bit rough in a small Pennsylvania town. Sound familiar? The Rabbit Quartet was recently named one of the best American novels of the last 25 years by the New York Times Book Review
Wallace Stegner: Angle of Repose
This book has stuck with me for quite a while. Gorgeous tale of hardship, love and the settling of the West. This book won the Pulitzer Prize in the early 70's and is well worth the time that it may take to really get into it. I love the fact that the wheelchair bound Lyman Ward, a secondary protagonist/narrator, enjoys little more than pouring himself two fingers of bourbon and watching Giants games on the tube.
Guy de Maupassant: Bel-Ami
Late 19th century story of a man's descent into journalistic corruption. A quick read that is never very challenging but is certain to entertain.
Honore de Balzac: Lost Illusions
Typical melodramtic mid-19th century French drivel. But I love it. Long weepy monologues about art, social circles and the wonders of Paris (not to mention the hilarious ways that they talk about sex without really talking about sex). The tale of Lucien Chardon will keep you interested for the full 700 pages, I swear.

August 08, 2006

Hiatus

OK, I haven't posted in a few weeks but let me take this opportunity to tell you why: the heat, the job search, the apartment search and the fact that nothing but terrible news concerning the Browns and Tribe. I tried to post a very ecstatic piece about the Browns about two weeks ago but the computer that I am using just wouldn't process it. It must've known that LeCharles Bentley, out premier free agent pick up and hometown guy, was going to go down-untouched we find out recently-for the year with a knee injury. I barely want to write anything positive about the Browns (i.e. Braylon or the emerging Jerome Harrison or the rock solid Ruben Droughns) as I am afraid to have to shed tears over the keyboard again.

And then there is the Damn Cleveland Indians. Can it get any worse that watching ESPN at a bar in the Lower East Side and watching the bedeviling descent of our relief corps. Fausto Carmona? Who the hell names their kid after a guy who sells his soul to the devil? Really, there is no way in Hell (he he) that Carmona has made any pacts with Old Scratch OR HE"D BE SAVING GAMES AND NOT GIVING UP WALK OFF AFTER WALK OFF!!!!

I can't take baseball anymore. I hate it. Football...FOOTBALL....Ye Olde Buckeyes come and save me from merciless pit of mediocrity that I was born into!!!!!

I swear that I will post more often...once I get a job and an apartment that is not in the purgatorial suburbs of Long Island...

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Comments

speaking of the buckeyes....Maurice Clarett is in trouble again. The interesting thing is not that Clarett will be charged with more felonies, it's that his coach in the Eastern Indoor Football league says he's still on the team, and that he's seen "far worse situations than this." Apparently multiple felonies for robery at gun point, weapons possesion, and speeding down the highway from police ain't so bad.

Posted by: brandon | August 09, 2006 at 04:34 PM

i suspect that only in youngstown, ohio is this considered acceptable behavior.

Posted by: brandon | August 09, 2006 at 04:36 PM

http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/15232573.htm

Posted by: brandon | August 09, 2006 at 07:07 PM

He was just going hunting, right? Maybe hunting for a little shakedown.

Posted by: frotuss | August 10, 2006 at 03:33 AM

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