Oceanic Slime

Really? That’s a tough topic to address, but I do want to point everyone to a remarkable article by the very readable science scribe Elizabeth Kolbert in last week’s New Yorker on the “Darkening Seas”… details how atmospheric CO2 doesn’t just hang around in the air but is steadily mixing into the oceans (of course), […]

Living and Dying in the City

A remarkable, densely-packed weekend of San Francisco living, starting with the latest from my illustrious neighbors, Keith Hennessy and Seth Eisen with Jules Beckman, “How to Die,” at Dance Mission on Friday night. Like the last show Keith did, this is divided into two parts, the first on homelessness and the second on gay sex-and-drugs […]

Disaster Bicycling

Critical Mass this past Friday night commemorated the Katrina Hurricane and the destruction of New Orleans by following a route along the “future shoreline” of San Francisco (a group called Rising Tide North America put the call out for nationwide rides in solidarity with New Orleans and about 28 cities went for it). Last night […]