Well, somebody at Casa de Ted y Molly is writing about this crazy February warm weather. If you're looking to meet girls, avoid propositioning them to pose for Suicide Girls. Trust us, it's creepy, especially if you're wearing "bright, striped pants." And Halsted at Cygnior's Quill has an interesting idea -- why not "archive the homeless?" $20 their political commentary is more interesting than DailyKos. more ›

The Night Cabbie column has been up and running for eight years, first with the then Hearst-run Examiner and now with the Hearst-run Chronicle. Nobody knew who exactly the Cabbie was, leading to all sorts of guessing games (we’ve always wondered if any of the multitudes of cab drivers we’ve had in the city was him and if so, hopefully it wasn’t on one of those nights that involved Jager) but once a week, a column would appear relating whatever adventures he had with any sort of comment he’d add to it. The writing was gritty and minimal and all sorts of slice-of-life-ish but frankly, we always thought the column was a better idea than an actual column. Like a lot of writing in that style, it was either hit or miss and we thought it was mainly miss; most of his stories left us wondering what the point was. But that could be just us- we’ve probably seen way too much Taxi Driver and were probably just disappointed in the fact that the columns weren’t full of prose about how the scum needed to be washed off the city streets and how hot Jody Foster is. Regardless, the column was a pretty unique one and a change of pace from John Carroll’s cat-columns and Leah Garchik’s gossip columns about people we’ve never heard of. It also leaves the Chron with one less columnist than they had before. We're sure they're right on it.
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Yes, at the prodding of the Chronicle Watch, you, the Chronicle Watch readers, have set forth such a furious volley of e-mails, faxes, and phone calls to poor beleaguered Pat O’Brien, the regional general manager of East Bay Regional Park District, to demand your doggy washing facilities that Pat could do nothing else but to listen to the Voice-of-the-People(we wonder if whenever the Chronicle Watch unveils some new thing to fix up and post a picture of some middle-management government lackey, the lackey’s first thoughts upon seeing their mug and phone number in the paper fall somewhere along the lines of “oh no…”). According to the story, the new place consists of “six new tubs with built-in stairs, a large-capacity water heater and retail shelves. There is also a new gathering place for humans: Last month, doors opened at the adjacent Sit and Stay Café.” Hell, we’ve thought about renting places that didn’t sound as nice. more ›