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Category Archives: Column: Published Weekly in the Sonoma Index-Tribune
Leaf Blowers Must Die
Living in Sonoma during this time of year is like living in a postcard. Not the “Wish you were here” variety, which, in most languages translates as “neener-neener-neener,” but the ones purchasable at the visitors bureau that depict our rural countryside, braided with vineyards in autumnal hues that would make every crayon in the box [...]
Sonoma Faces off on Facebook
In another of my social media-to-print experiments (OK, admittedly, Twitter interview made only partial sense – least of all to those on Twitter), I decided to “crowd-source” my column. Crowd-sourcing is like out-sourcing but instead of farming my column out to an emerging economy like India or East Petaluma, one taps the so-called “wisdom of [...]
Best Little Horror House in Sonoma
Given the annual rate of attrition of the kids who trick or treat my house, this year I expect, at most, two – the one’s from next door whose parents make them come over for the sake of being polite.
The low turnout baffles my wife who thrills at the sight of little one’s garbed as [...]
Also posted in Blog Tagged emmy kaplan, emmy's spaghetti shack, halloween, m&ms, the cannoli, white zombie 1 Comment
Sonoma Inn (San Francisco Edition) literally bites
Given my never-ending crusade to preserve Sonoma’s brand equity, imagine my surprise when I discovered poachers siphoning our identity from our own backyard.
In San Francisco, at the corner of Bush and Van Ness, is a hotel named the Sonoma Inn. I initially assumed it was a residential hotel, by which I mean flophouse, of the [...]
Also posted in Blog Tagged bedbug registry, bedbugs, branding, hotels, san francisco, sonoma, tourism 1 Comment
Lost in Carneros
I’m a conscientious driver. Or at least I try to be, which is why, when my hands-free earpiece began to pick up air traffic signals and short wave radio broadcasts out of Guam, I pulled off the road to take a call while cruising down Eighth Street East. I entered the empty sprawl of the [...]
(If) You’re Going to San Francisco
There’s a type of Sonoman that I never thought I’d become. The one that brags to visiting friends, “…Another thing that’s so bloody great about Sonoma is how close we are to the City. Heck, we can go anytime we want!” But we don’t.
The City in this scenario, of course, is San Francisco – that [...]
Tipping Sonoma’s Sacred Cow
She’s everywhere in Wine Country – if it weren’t for all the vineyards, one might think we lived in one vast dairy farm lorded over by a cartoon cow with a propensity for milk-themed puns.
The iconic Clo the Cow made her billboard debut in1969 and later began her award-winning reign of puns thanks to the creative [...]
Thanksgiving in Blue