Competitive Online Dating

Posted by banane on July 31st, 2006 — in best of

photo of Minneapolitan filmmaker Wyatt McDill, kung-fu-ing
Competitive Online Dating
This morning I read this article on sfgate about how the author gets kind of into her MySpace hottie photos. Her thoughts on dating in the world of MySpace reminds me of one of my favorite bar-stool tales.
Ex-boyfriend Will - his MySpace profile actually reminds me why [...]

iMurder 4: Salsa in the Fog

Posted by banane on July 26th, 2006 — in iMurder

iMurder: the fourth in a series about murder, dot-com style. Start at the beginning.
Chapter 4: Salsa in the Fog
The stretch of five days of fog didn’t stop the Fillmore Street Festival from unfurling her band stages. Beth was navigating the crowds when she saw her salsa teacher, SF PD Detective Sosa, and his wife doing [...]

iMurder 3: ZeitGeist Port-A-Potty

Posted by banane on July 23rd, 2006 — in iMurder

iMurder: the third in a series about a murder, dot-com style. Start at the beginning.
Zeitgeist Port-A-Potty
Detective Sosa walked through the interior of the famous biker bar to the large garden area. Calling it a garden was being complimentary. It mainly consisted of as many wooden picnic benches you could wedge into a single fenced off [...]

iMurder 2: Cherry Red Smooth

Posted by banane on July 19th, 2006 — in iMurder

iMurder: the second in a series about a murder, dot-com style.Start at the beginning
Chapter Two: Cherry Smooth
Mac’s alarm clock function on his cell phone went off at 8am and woke them both up. Beth got ready quickly. They barely exchanged any words, something about how he didn’t have any meetings that morning, and hoped she [...]

iMurder 1: Troll Under the Bridge

Posted by banane on July 17th, 2006 — in iMurder

The first in a series, about a murder, dot-com style. You’re at the beginning!
Troll Under the Bridge
Mike rode into the site with Jack that morning. It was like being a troll under the bridge, working on the Golden Gate Bridge renovations. He swallowed the last of his Big Mac and started on the large [...]

Book Idea

Posted by banane on July 13th, 2006 — in about writing

I had a masterful book idea this morning, out of the blue. I’m going to start working on it. I know I’m supposed to be doing rewrites for the screenplay. I just finished a friend’s contract, so now with my real, free writing days- Wed and Thurs- I can focus entirely on writing. This new [...]

Bach and Pushkin

Posted by banane on July 10th, 2006 — in about writing

I’m watching a very colorful database performance monitor historograph that is telling me: “Your database is moving very slowly,” and all I can do is try to harmonize with the lines of flowing, colorful data points. It sounds kind of baroque, which isn’t odd when you think that Bach was a good mathematician. And from [...]

Impatience, Anger, and Frustration

Posted by banane on July 9th, 2006 — in local color

Things that are just hugely, hugely pissing me off today.
1. Cafe Columbus, who I have touted on various Yelp & SF Metblogs, has not only re-named their schwerma item some cheesy Italian name- The ‘Joe DiMaggio,’ which will come up again- but also ratcheted up the price one dollar. “We haven’t changed our prices in [...]

Games I Haven’t Played

Posted by banane on July 7th, 2006 — in technology

Lego Star Wars. OK, why would you take little toys of limited movement and use them as the inspiration for a digital game where you have basically no limitations like gravity, oh, real mass, or any of those pesky physical laws.
Drugs I haven’t done… games I haven’t played… diseases I haven’t gotten (are those all [...]

The Smell of Grass

Posted by banane on July 6th, 2006 — in local color

There was a moment, sailing this weekend into Sausalito harbor, when I could swear I smelled that dark, sweet golden smell of California foothills. I wonder if it was the Headlands wafting down the hillside from the West. It has something so distinct to it. Combination of sea-air, and that dry grass, maybe.

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