When you’re married, everyone asks when you’re going to start having kids. Makes sense. I pester my friends with the same questions. When are you going to have a kid? When are you going to have a second one? Do…
Weekend in the City
The other night someone told me that they enjoy reading my Yelp reviews which I do inconsistently. Never enough hours in the day. My favorite travel guide is Frommer’s. The books are visually-appealing with an easy-to-read layout and structure, starting…
Squeezing in Shanghai
I am squeezing in one more big trip before the end of the year–a week in Shanghai. I was complaining to Marc about having another three weeks of vacation left and he told me if I booked a flight to…
Autobiography of Mark Twain Just Released
After all the Giants festivities, we decided to get literary by attending the Mark Twain Ball last night at the Herbst Green Room. The event was put on by Litquake, the Bancroft Library, UC Press, and the California Historical Society…
Fashionable Color in the Rainforest
Look how cute this bird is. It makes me happy. It’s a Paradise Tanager and there are three of them at the rain forest exhibit at the California Academy of Sciences. They’re known for their seven colors of bright feathers. Photo: Rachel…
GOOP = CRAP
For the most part, I do like Goop – Gwyneth Paltrow’s website. So that equation is a bit mis-titled. But sometimes she launches into these health kicks that drive me batty. Like today, her post was on overcoming sugar addiction….
Giants Parade
Luckily, I work along the parade route. We’re a block away from the Transamerica building which is where it all started. After the cars, floats, and UPS trucks passed, we went back into the office and watched the rest of…
New York Humor
This is funny. You can retire to New York City when… 1. You say “the city” and expect everyone to know you mean Manhattan. 2. You can get into a four-hour argument about how to get from Columbus Circle to…
I Heart the Situation
Immediately after last Saturday’s World Series game, we rushed to the Jug Shop in Russian Hill on Polk Street where Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino was signing $27 bottles of Devotion vodka. I have the biggest crush on this reality TV…
SF Giants World Series 2010
It’s been a wild ride indeed. Me, Dean, and Rob watched the game in front of City Hall. Gavin had promised a setup like the World Cup. Bullshit. There were two mega-screens for the world cup games. But for the…