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Weekly Obsessions
Weekly Obsessions
Things we were obsessing about on April 20, 2005
Published: April 20, 2005
We'd heard about the wonders of kayaking Elkhorn Slough, but when we stopped the wind was up, and visions of being trapped, upside down in ice-cold water, filled our claustrophobic brain. Luckily,...
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Weekly Obsessions
Weekly Obsessions
Things we were obsessing about on April 6, 2005
Published: April 6, 2005
In addition to National Autism Awareness Month, Landscape Architecture Month, Backpack Safety Month, Oral Health Month, and STD Awareness Month, April is also National Poetry Month. This year it...
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Weekly Obsessions
Weekly Obsessions
Things we were obsessing about on March 30, 2005
Published: March 30, 2005
Until our favorite scene in David Lynch's Mulholland Drive was spoiled by a peculiar blur over the nether regions of Naomi Watts, our (admittedly flimsy) excuses for Blockbuster patronage kept...
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Weekly Obsessions
Weekly Obsessions
Things we were obsessing about on March 23, 2005
Published: March 23, 2005
The American Podiatric Medical Association (APMA) recently ranked San Francisco the second best walking city in the country . To determine the rankings, they used 14 scientific criteria, including...
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Weekly Obsessions
Weekly Obsessions
Things we were obsessing about on March 16, 2005
Published: March 16, 2005
Now that ephedrine-based products are a thing of the past (boo!), and we're always semiflushed over that semi-dark roast smell our urine emits throughout the office bathroom after drinking our...
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Weekly Obsessions
Weekly Obsessions
Things we were obsessing about on March 9, 2005
Published: March 9, 2005
Should you ever find yourself in the market for a personalized NFL jersey , and should your name, given or chosen, be, oh, let's say, ANAL ANNIE or ASS MONKEY or CUM QUAT or MOTHERLOVEBONE or even...
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Weekly Obsessions
Weekly Obsessions
Things we were obsessing about on March 2, 2005
Published: March 2, 2005
Lately it seems like our favorite big record store is taking a lot of flak from our chums. It's too crowded. The lines are too long. The trade-counter guy doesn't pony up enough dosh for a used...
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Weekly Obsessions
Weekly Obsessions
Things we were obsessing about on Feb. 23, 2005
Published: February 23, 2005
The sad thing is, we don't like watching the Academy Awards because of the overpriced designer outfits, the supposed kitsch factor, and the many disappointing Oscar parties where gay men hurl...
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Weekly Obsessions
Weekly Obsessions
Things we were obsessing about on Feb. 9, 2005
Published: February 9, 2005
It's so frigging obvious that the upstairs neighbors are tweakers . We hear them clomping around their apartment with the crazed footsteps of people who realize at 3 a.m. that they need to scrub...
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Weekly Obsessions
Weekly Obsessions
Things we were obsessing about on Feb. 2, 2005
Published: February 2, 2005
If you're in the mood to pig out on pig, put this paper down immediately, call Oliveto (5655 College Ave., Oakland, 510/547-5356), and get a reservation for any night you can between Feb. 8 and 11,...
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Weekly Obsessions
Weekly Obsessions
Things we were obsessing about on Jan. 26, 2005
Published: January 26, 2005
Freedom fire freedom. Liberty liberty freedom freedom, freedom, freedom's freedom, freedom, liberty. Liberty freedom freedom liberty liberty, freedom God freedom's freedom fire fire fire freedom...
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Weekly Obsessions
Weekly Obsessions
Things we were obsessing about on Jan. 19, 2005
Published: January 19, 2005
Except for sports and The Daily Show , we had pretty much given up on TV. Now that people have eaten crickets, gone sky diving with billionaires, and married their cousins on the tube, it's hard...
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Weekly Obsessions
Weekly Obsessions
Things we were obsessing about on Jan. 12, 2005
Published: January 12, 2005
Maybe the writing was on the wall for some time now, but we were still crushed by the mayoral marriage split. (Even the firing of bow-tied retard Tucker Carlson didn't brighten our day.) As we...
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Weekly Obsessions
Weekly Obsessions
Things we were obsessing about on Dec. 29, 2004
Published: December 29, 2004
Too many years have begun with a day of repentant nausea, when the aftermath of the New Year's Eve excess has us making resolutions from our deathbed. Since limiting our vices never seems to work,...
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Weekly Obsessions
Weekly Obsessions
Things we were obsessing about on Dec. 22, 2004
Published: December 22, 2004
Certain cities with year-round chilly or balmy weather enjoy pretending as if they actually have four seasons: Florida stores are jammed with heavy sweaters each winter, and San Francisco retail...
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Weekly Obsessions
Weekly Obsessions
Things we were obsessing about on Dec. 15, 2004
Published: December 15, 2004
This might be the best parlor game to hit media circles since Woodward started hanging around parking garages: Just who is the BALCO leaker ? Who, from this case's Venn diagram of jurisdictions,...
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Weekly Obsessions
Weekly Obsessions
Things we were obsessing about on Dec. 8, 2004
Published: December 8, 2004
Aside from the frenzied looks of shoppers near Union Square and the candy cane coffee at Starbucks, San Francisco isn't really a "Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" kind of town. That's why we...
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Weekly Obsessions
Weekly Obsessions
Things we were obsessing about on Dec. 1, 2004
Published: December 1, 2004
The advent of cell phone technology has affected every facet of our lives. We routinely send video of our wild nights in the Mission back to Mom in Michigan and prepare for weekends in Tahoe with...
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Weekly Obsessions
Weekly Obsessions
Things we were obsessing about on Nov. 24, 2004
Published: November 24, 2004
Interest in cartoonist Lev Yilmaz's Tales of Mere Existence has snowballed since Comedy Central picked up an animated version of the zine for its variety show, Jump Cuts . The cartoonist...
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Weekly Obsessions
Weekly Obsessions
Our new column goes from H. Brown's drinking to Halo 2. And beyond.
Published: November 17, 2004
Things we were obsessing about on Nov. 17, 2004: Before this election's first returns came in, one thing was already obvious: For better or worse, we were going to drink our way through it. A...
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