Guy Smith | June 11, 2009
California is quaking once again. In this instance it has nothing to do with plate tectonics.
California is like a functional drunk. It sips, then swills, then gulps, then passes out, waking and swearing off the juice until the next time. Government spending is California’s whiskey, and when the lush – also known [...]
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Guy Smith | June 10, 2009
Some days the universe conspires to uncover the blatantly obvious.
In and around the nation’s capital today, Jews were targets, in literal and metaphorical senses. At the Holocaust Museum an aging bigot with an old squire rifle shot a security guard. It was a senseless act by someone so consumed with hatred that his [...]
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Guy Smith | June 7, 2009
Our local scandal rag, the San Francisco Chronicle (also called the San Francisco Chronic by people who enjoy drug humor too much), is busy celebrating itself as members of the media are prone to do.
Seriously guys, check the ego at the door.
The Chronic has been printing highly readable bird cage liner for 144 year. [...]
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Guy Smith | June 5, 2009
AFTERLIFE is now available in the U.K. on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Afterlife-Guy-Smith/dp/1439237433/
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Guy Smith | June 5, 2009
A hurricane died this week.
Koko Taylor was nothing less than a growling storm of blues. Hailed as the Queen of the Blues, Koko possessed seemingly endless energy erupting from her paunchy Chicago blues body and soul. When performing you lived in fear that either she or the audience would explode in frenzied elation, [...]
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