my husband and I pretend now that we live in "North L.A." (sans the culture and fashion sense) rather than the bay area, having peregrinated a mere 50 miles down the peninsula to the self-styled "Capital of Silicon Valley". The Mercury News breathlessly follows the exploits of the local superstars… Read full post »

• we used NCSA Mosaic to access the Internet?

• we had to mark punch cards in our high school computer science class to have the mainframe process the programs we had written in Basic?

• we had to stay up every night to watch "Roots" on television because VCRs, DVRs… Read full post »

Just my own musings on where we are right now.

IN

Kathy Griffin

Joel McHale

Rachel Maddow

Iowa & Vermont

Rick & Steve

RuPaul's Drag Race

Marriage Equality

Francois Sagat

Portland

Rosie's brother

Craigslist M4M

Croatians & their Balkan brethren 

OUT

Perez Hilton

The "Ano… Read full post »

1. I have always thought that my feet are particularly well formed.

2. I have a pierced tragus, and often forget about it until someone asks "Did that hurt"?

3. I have absolutely no desire to own a pet or watch nature shows, since biology is a job to me and… Read full post »

Citizens of Northern California (and resident aliens like myself), do we not deserve better from our local media outlets?

Here is a sample of recent "headlines" culled from the SFGate website, the online presence of the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper, where we fogbound denizens have to search for… Read full post »

 Car czar, climate czar.....  how lame and unimaginative is the MSM punditocracy anyway?

First of all, the correct transliteration of the leader of the Russian Empire is TSAR, not czar.  Just like we no longer write Peking or Bombay, we should no longer employ the word czar.  In f… Read full post »

 Courtesy of my former next-door neighbor M., with whom I just recently reconnected courtesy of Facebook (all the 30- and 40-somethings are doing it now, dontcha know).

My mother stands in the middle with her fabulous late-60's hairdo, holding my younger brother.  I am… Read full post »

We are here for a week of surf and sun, courtesy of the high holy days (no, we are not Jewish but my sister-in-law works for a Jewish college in Brooklyn and has most of the week off).  As a break from the bronzed latin beauties of South Beach, hubby and… Read full post »

 ( aka Bicoastal Bitchiness, or how I learned to stop pissing and moaning and just put on some goddamned fleece)

12 things I love about San Francisco

• The weather - it never goes above 75°F and never goes below 60°F, and if you find a place out of the fog… Read full post »

Several years ago in early October, my phone rang at an ungodly hour of the morning, well before my usual waking hour of 8 am.  When this happens, we all assume the worst.  Who died?  Why a wrong number so EARLY?  I picked up the phone and with my groggy, phlegmy… Read full post »

Even though my last arts review on OS was met with near deafening silence, I press on, undaunted.  Since I plan to keep posting reviews of performances I happen to attend in the upcoming months, I will henceforth group all these reviews under the title BayArts [previous posts edited to reflect… Read full post »

Since my last arts post was met with a few favorable comments, I'm charging ahead with tonight's offering from the local opera house (and besides, what are we all going to talk about on Nov. 5 when Gov. Palin is shipped back to her frozen wasteland?).

This is a rarely performed… Read full post »

I haven't seen much in the way of arts reviews or commentary on this site, so I thought I'd put it out there and see if anyone's interested.  Also, please comment if you saw this performance in Berkeley or elsewhere.

The hubby and I attended Friday night's performance in Zellerbach Hall.… Read full post »

OK, challenged by a certain OSer who shall remain nameless (you know who you are) to walk my talk, I submit the following list of members who definitely get the nod from the DILF/PDILF Outreach Squad:

- Jon Henner (it must be the tattoo)

- Colin Bane (the sexy scruff and… Read full post »

After lurking here on OS for a few weeks, I feel honor-bound to commence my own blog after posting my first comment tonight.  I have found the expected mix of insightful folks, annoying trolls and wallowing navel-gazers thus far, but thanks to some earlier posts on the subject I now feel… Read full post »