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Entries from SFist tagged with 'thepalace'

February 19, 2008

In the middle part of the 19th century, a thick set of whiskers were an essential facial feature of every man of Victorian respectability. These were not simply expressions of pride or masculine peacock vanity, but due to a whole rainbow of reasons, ranging from the fact that Man had been created in God's image, to the "fact" that beards protected the wearer against tuberculosis, and even that shaving led to immorality, murder, and......

Continue Reading "Whiskerless Waiters at the Palace Hotel"

August 18, 2005

Okay, we're going to have a little fun at someone's expense here, but we feel that they deserve it. Or at least, we deserve to. Because we feel rather jerked around, and were ready to ignore it, but recent events have made us feel all the more belittled. So with our viciously sharp HTML claws, we'd like to dig in to the Blog Business Summit's PR department. We wanted to cover the Blog Business......

Continue Reading "How To Piss Off a Blogger"

November 10, 2004

You know, it's getting so that we can't leave the house these days without running into an angry mob. This evening, during our nightly constitutional through downtown San Francisco, we were startled to turn a corner and crash into an absolutely massive procession - about a thousand people - furious about, well, the usual stuff. Bush; Iraq; capitalism; racism; 12 cruxgrozenical galaxies. One moment, nice quiet downtown stroll - the next, a huge mass......

Continue Reading "The Masses: Consider Them Risen Up"

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