To avoid my brother’s ex-wife’s idiot brother and his cousins, my brother and I would walk across rooftops to get around San Francisco. One evening, we saw groups of men smoking and placing bets on the rooftops near Chinatown. They… Read More ›
San Francisco
From the Past into the Future
It was raining. I was going to the Great Dickens Christmas Fair at the Cow Palace in south San Francisco. It was a gray day with strong clouds. The sound of tires slicing through the wet street was comforting. It… Read More ›
Fool’s Gold – Part 6
‘Trouble at its finest,’ Madame Selene, the proprietess smiled as she admired us as she sat on a chair with one of her young whores fanning her in front of her brothel ship-bar. ‘Well walk the plank and come in!’… Read More ›
Fool’s Gold – Part 5
We quietly rode back to the bay area which had more ships docked with white sails. The town had grown since I had last left it. As we rode our horses through the muddy dirt streets of crowded San Francisco,… Read More ›
Johnson’s Beach in Napa Sonoma Wine Country
I learned about Johnson’s Beach years ago located in Napa Sonoma’s wine country. Johnson’s is a small secluded rocky beach with water as warm as a cozy bath with surreal trees that look as if you were staring at a… Read More ›
Fool’s Gold – Part 4
We rode our horses in silence. The dead Spaniard in our thoughts. Then I asked a question, ‘All these years and you were in Yerba Buena and our paths didn’t cross?’ ‘Maybe I did know you were there but just… Read More ›
Fool’s Gold – Part 3
We kept moving and a set up camp near a flowing river. After building a fire to warm myself, I went ahead and slept. In the morning, I jumped into the river, gasping and shivering and cussing at how cold… Read More ›
Korean Makeup. A Different Way for Women to Look More Youthful.
I love Korean make-up brands. After using its tricks, I noticed that I appeared a little younger than I was which at the time was 39-years old. Below is two Korean beauty make-up styles. The left photo is straight… Read More ›
How Classy is MAC Cosmetics at the Management Level?
How stringent is the revered beauty giant MAC Cosmetics hiring process for management-level representatives who are hand-selected to represent the iconic luxury and beauty of their prestigious brand? One can contend that all you need is to use profanity and psychotic… Read More ›
Fool’s Gold – Part 2
The whole night the inn burnt and I walked back to Chinatown and the old lady let me sleep in her stuffy opium den filled with other people, other races, dazed and lost in the high. I woke up in… Read More ›
Fool’s Gold – Part 1
1849 was only two years ago and the ships have flooded Yerba Buena cove. Whispers were going around that they were going to call that place San Francisco. I am across that damn bay drinking in a haphazard wooden shack… Read More ›
BART Chief of Police Kenton Rainey Keeps Company with Thugs
If you live in the San Francisco bay area, you will know what BART is. And if you look at the news recently, several police chiefs around the San Francisco bay area counties are in hot water involving sexual misconducts… Read More ›