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Monthly Archives: October 2010

Time for a Change at BART

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Those who have seen my bike know that I prefer it unadorned and minimalist—no brand name, no logos, no stickers, no extraneous parts, and no colors except black and white. So it was not without hesitation that I temporarily scraperized it and turned it into a rolling billboard for Robert Raburn’s campaign for the BART […]

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Avanti! Avanti!

Friday, October 22, 2010

Almost a year and a half ago I posted a photo of The Grateful Tree a few blocks from my apartment. In the intervening months, time and the elements took their usual toll, and the little tree eventually looked like it would be grateful for a bit of sprucing up itself. I walked the dog […]

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Truthiness in Advertising

Monday, October 18, 2010

Looking at this glossy 8.5 X 11 inch mailer sent to residents by the Jean Quan campaign, you would probably never guess that headline of the Tribune’s Mayoral endorsement was “We recommend Rebecca Kaplan for Oakland mayor.” This is just one more unexpected complication of our new Instant Runoff Voting system, where we forgo primaries […]

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Goodnight Oakland

Friday, October 15, 2010

I haven’t posted—or written, for that matter—any doggerel since my very first post, but since I apparently don’t have much else to say these days, I might as well. I happened to look up at the moon when I went out for my little just-before-bed dog walk last night, and this is the result. My […]

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Life is So Uncertain

Thursday, October 14, 2010

This is the first sentence of the Boston Globe’s Friday article about the latest developments in the Red Sox owner’s efforts to purchase Liverpool FC: The Liverpool Football Club will host Blackburn Sunday; that much is certain. The only problem is that Liverpool is playing their Liverpudlian neighbors Everton on Sunday. (They’ll host Blackburn on […]

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