drinking
Last week I got this email invite from one of my favorite Internet writers, Charlie Jane Anders from io9 and Tor: You cannot handle the subversive raptures of February's Writers With Drinks! Your buffers will overrun. You will be dividing by zero! Luckily, we serve alcohol, which helps
overheard in cafes
"Hey! What are you reading today?" Some guy at Bean Bag was asking the woman sitting across from me. It was crowded around lunchtime last Wednesday, so she and I had split up our table: me with my laptop and coffee and she with her paperback book and
girls
San Francisco is a jealous harlot and after seething at my blog posts from Texas for four days, she flashed me a little skin to remind me what I was missing. I'd been back less than 24 hours, and it being a warm, blue-sky day, Scott and I
Corin
We walked into the Thirsty Nickel because we thought we heard good music and we didn't leave for three hours. Nirvana, STP, Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam, Gin Blossoms, R.E.M. and all the standards from our adolescence.
food
"Jay-Z didn't like walking out the front and around to the side. So he paid to have a door put in. He had that door built it in one day."
drinking
First they lure you in with a young, beautiful girl who seems to want to hang out with a group of five 30-year-old guys all night at a salsa club. She walked over to us. Tall, glowing, maybe 23. We were at the front table in a bar, rocking out
Corin
We got in a cab to go to Chuy's today and asked our driver what we HAD to do in Austin. "Drink Lone Star beer!" he said, in a booming Caribbean accent. "Yeah?" asked Corin, "We were drinking that last night!" "
kittehs
Glinda and Jake just got two new kittens, Holmes and Watson. Here's Watson: They're brothers, about 5 weeks old, and they look exactly alike, except Watson only has half a tail. Here they are fighting, but you can't tell where one begins and the
drinking
"Quantum physics was when I gave up," said Reed. "I mean, until then, I got it. We did this lab where you hang a bicycle wheel from a rope and it spins around, cuz of its inertia. That I totally I understood. And we did the math,
Ash
In your twenties, friends come in and out of your life fast. You join a kickball team, or run into someone at a bar, and in a couple weeks you're doing everything together. Pub trivia, poker nights, beach trips, ski weekends, flights to Vegas. But then, somebody gets
SF sports
He picked the 49ers to win the Super Bowl. We didn't do it, and we made some goddman stupid mistakes, but we held on and fought like hell. And Kaepernick proved himself.
banality
When he was almost finished, Richard wet a towel, patted it on my head and grabbed a fistful of my hair. "Gotta add some moisture," he said. "And I can see where the weight is in your hair." He kept grabbing fistfuls of my hair, all