Guy Smith | February 28, 2010
I admit to having odd inclinations, the least weird of which is donating blood.
(Squeamish people … cowboy up. I’ll talk you into bleeding like I talk everybody into it).
About four times a year I clomp over to the Red Cross offices and flirt with some nice young gal who assaults me with long needles. We [...]
Guy Smith | February 26, 2010
Some accidents occur at high velocities, where victims are instantly eliminated from future history (this seems especially true of Olympic luge racers and rock stars). Other accidents are the slow motion variety, where the impact is plainly visible to onlookers but not to the victims themselves.
Of course I speak of Obama.
Several combined news items show [...]
Guy Smith | February 23, 2010
A friend once opined that there is a fine line between being a realist and a cynic.
Wrong. Those groups have widely overlapping memberships.
Playful cynicism has always been part of me, much like a congenital defect. I have gathered, categorized and plagiarized some of the best cynical thinking in the history of humanity and committed it [...]
Guy Smith | February 19, 2010
It is widely considered unwise to bite feeding hands, but given the few crumbs I collect from Amazon, I doubt I’ll starve.
I was slightly surprised to receive a stack of 1099-MISC forms from various Amazon.com subsidiaries, held companies and associated oddball entities. I earn a few Amazon affiliate bucks for links on other web sites. [...]
Guy Smith | February 15, 2010
One of San Francisco’s endearing aspects is its unregulated goofiness. Just have a look at our Board of Supervisors.
Ignoring such institutionalized imbeciles, The City is rife with good natured fun. Granted, much of it involves naked people doing very personal things to one another, but often San Francisco silliness borders on Middle American. Such is [...]
