Culture Vulture
Putting the Me in Media. …Or is it the I?
This is a personal magazine project from the editor of North Bay Bohemian, Pacific Sun, Healdsburg Tribune, Boheme Magazine, Explore Magazine, and other publications. Basically, you could say…
I’ve got issues.
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The Darkest Hour is Just Before Dawn: It’s Not Over Yet
“The darkest hour is just before dawn.” Like many Gen Xers, I was introduced to this concept in a Mamas and Papas lyric crackling away on an FM station on a Volvo car radio. It was the ’70s, and the aftermath of Watergate and the war in Viet Nam hung pungently in the air like…
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Writing in Cafes: From Christine’s Cafe to Cafe Nuvo
Remember writing in cafes? My own obsession began with Christine’s Cafe in Petaluma in the mid-’80s but quickly metastasized into San Anselmo’s Cafe Nuvo and finally into San Francisco’s North Beach. This is where my cohorts and I vainly searched for traces of the Beats, who, by the early ’90s, were so heavily productized and marketed…
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Nietzsche Is Peachy
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Beers for Fears
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3 Reasons I Turned Down Being CEO of Twitter
(The second one may surprise you!) Elon — First just let me say, wow, dude, what a ride, man. And I’m not talking about the Model 3 (thanks again for accepting ye olde Civic as a trade-in against the lease — but more on the Tesla later). So, this whole “Twitter” situation — looks like you…
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Old Bird
After seeing this photo from the New York Times 15 years ago, I think anyone worth their genome would argue that “heritage” turkeys owe a genetic debt to dinosaurs. In fact, a theory has long been advanced that birds don’t just resemble dinosaurs, they are dinosaurs. The Dinobuzz page at the University of California Museum…
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Autofiction
You’d be forgiven if you thought autofiction was filler for a hot rod mag. The Greek prefix auto- means “self,” think “autobiography”—now, swap in “fiction” and you get the gist. It’s nothing new, references reach back at least as far as the 70s (according to contemporary criticism) and likely beyond. This bastard offspring of memoir and…
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‘Best Vampire City’ as Content Marketing
With apologies to the California Milk Processor Board — Got Blood? This is a question that might be top of mind for vampires this Halloween weekend as the veil thins and, hopefully, the veins open. Those fanged followers in San Francisco are particularly in luck according to a recent analysis by the fine folks at…
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Irish Writers in ‘The Simpsons’
Here’s a quick public service post of the week: My son was watching The Simpsons on Disney+, when, during an Irish pub scene in Episode 14, Season 20, “In the Name of the Grandfather,” up popped the yellow, cartoonish visages of James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, George Bernard Shaw, and Oscar Wilde. Arguably Irish literature’s “Big…