SFist Reads
SFist picked up some books we reserved online, and had no memory of ever requesting them. Are we getting drunk and reserving books? We'll know it's time to quit drinking when we start getting banned from our local independent bookstores for disorderly conduct.
One of the books we really are stumped about requesting is The Bachelorette Party. Did we request this because the author was one of the co-authors of the Legally Blonde and 10 Things I Hate About You screenplays? Was it the blurbs from such luminaries as Selma Blair and Peter Horton? Have we developed a fondness for books about plucky heroines rebuilding their lives after being left at the altar? No, no, and no. We're sticking with the drinking theory, because we're more comfortable with the idea of random booze-infused book reservations over any of the other possibilities.
Image from the San Francisco Tenants Union Site
SFist Jackson is reading the copy of the San Francisco Tenants Union Tenant's Rights Handbook that SFist Shane loaned to him. While it's not exactly something we'd want to be trapped on a plane with, we're struggling through it because we're tired of broken windows, no fire escape, regular electrical interruptions, no place to put our trash can, a moldy staircase, a refrigerator that doesn't keep things cold -- okay, we could go on and on. The introduction is classic Marxist landlord-tenant theory, although you'd have to be a red like us to pick up on that. But most of the book is specifics about things like the Ellis Act, lease law regarding shared apartments, rent control provisions and fighting eviction notices. We can't wait to get through it so that we can lay a smackdown on Home Realty (that's right, we called you out by name, bitches -- what?).
Sfist Rita is reading The Working Poor, by David Shipler, which is a collection of stores about various people who are just above the poverty line and how they get by. It's the world's most depressing book, it's all like, "for want of a nail, the war was lost," and how missing one car payment leads you to catastrophic ruin.