I love San Francisco #532
NoisePop: Tobias Wolfe interviewing John Darmelle (Mountain Goats). John D. Has such an endearing stage presence.
February 2009
14 posts
... Still indulging and hiding his vices
“People closer to the governor offer a different take. “Once he got beat, he reverted back to, ‘I want to be liked,’” says a former Schwarzenegger aide. “It’s classic narcissism.” (The governor declined requests for an interview, but I did walk away with three custom-made Daniel Marshall cigars from his office.)”
—jackass.
WSJ opinion piece: California is becoming France. (yeah, it’s the conservativo WSJ, but still. I think the article has some salient points.)
WSJ opinion piece: California is becoming France. (yeah, it’s the conservativo WSJ, but still. I think the article has some salient points.)
“… You should be able to putter off and have a breakdown or a heroin addiction, whatever it is, your particular problem of choice. That’s what makes you an interesting actor, anyway. We’re more interesting if we are dysfunctional.”
—Rupert Everett
NYT Magazine
NYT Magazine
“President Obama is shelving a plan announced in the final days of the Bush administration to open much of the U.S. coast to oil drilling, including 130 million acres off California’s coast from Mendocino to San Diego.”
—Yay!
sfgate
sfgate
“As usual, I left Paris thinking it was not as good an eating city as New York. Though the variety and creativity are getting there, there’s still no comparison.”
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That’s funny. That’s what San Franciscans think of New York. But I’d always bow to Paris as having better or equal food as SF.
“… in a high-end Santa Monica coffee shop, one of those mad-scientist places where they grind the coffee in front of you and serve it in vacuum-sealed flasks on a silver tray.”
—Also funny.
(diff article. same paper.)
(diff article. same paper.)
And then she discovered Zen.
“‘It did happen once,’ he said. I was screaming into a speakerphone and banging on the table, and the people in the room were astounded that I lost my temper.’ Did he learn anything from his trip to the dark side? ‘It turned out that I’d pounded my fist so hard that I’d disconnected the line,’ he said, laughing ‘For two minutes I was yelling into a dead telephone. It was like a wasted tantrum.’”
—Funny.
NYTimes
NYTimes
“Back then, he had been a casual tenant of his attractive, still-young body; now he was a fearfully vain and anxious occupant of an older model.”
—Soldier’s Joy
Antonya Nelson
Antonya Nelson
