San Francisco's favorite but least read Q&A columnist, the Essefficist, answers questions about, well, nothing. Sorry. more ›

San Francisco's favorite but least read Q&A columnist, the Essefficist, answers questions about simple math, bay windows, and the Transbay Terminal. more ›

San Francisco's favorite but least read Q&A columnist, the Essefficist, digs for nuggets out on Treasure Island. more ›

San Francisco's favorite but least read Q&A columnist, the Essefficist, cracks a bad joke or two about eleven-year-old strumpets and checks into how to get racist cab drivers in trouble. more ›

San Francisco's favorite but least read Q&A columnist, the Essefficist, pokes around at the soft underbelly of heterosexual domestic parnerships. more ›

Call off the search engine parties. Rumors about the Essefficist's demise have been greatly smelly but largely unsubstantiated. Despite all attempts made by the beleaguered staff here at the Essefficist offices, none of us has been able to log in to Movable Type for the past six weeks, except for that one time, due to one or more of the following things: a fourteen month whirlwind trip to Paris (where we stayed in Hotel Henri IV for nine wonderful months), hard labor fixing up a beat-up old house in Bernal Heights, a profusion or two of holiday visitors from all over the country, or a lengthy and bruising attack by a sixty foot tall mutant moth from outer space named McGillicutty. But things are different now, or maybe just very similar to the way things were back in November, so we're back. With a vengeance. And covered in mutant moth dust. Or at least sheet rock dust. more ›

It's election day Q & A. Whoo hoo! First, let's hear from loyal reader Redd Harrington: more ›