Guy Smith | September 27, 2009
After 144 years you would think it odd for a black man to be publicly roped and whipped in America. Unless it is downtown San Francisco and the one wielding the whips is a lanky blonde in a leather body suit, wearing little else aside from a maniacal grin. San Francisco is a city where [...]
Guy Smith | September 20, 2009
Nancy Pelosi represents San Francisco – the small subsegment thereof still in psilocybin rehab overdoes from their last Grateful Dead concert. During her weekly press parade Nancy showed an expression other than perpetual surprise, her mug permanently frozen in that latter state once she discovered that proposed health insurance legislation would not cover Botox. In [...]
Guy Smith | September 7, 2009
It is Labor Day in San Francisco, which means it is again time for cowgirls gone wild. Few parts of San Francisco are wilder than the Mission District. Mission mavens are ‘colorful’ in the same sense that parrots and flamingos are and Liberace was. Mission residents are not considered properly dresses unless their tattoos are [...]
Guy Smith | July 19, 2009
A memorial service for an Iranian was held in an Irish pub today … and, no, that is not the opening line to a bad joke. The San Francisco bay area is filled with walking contradictions as well as unbridled expectations for happiness. Reza Honarkhah was both. Reza fled Iran in 1979 as theocratic insanity [...]
Guy Smith | July 12, 2009
It took a while for me to realize that San Francisco is an ongoing set of contradictions. Little wonder then that our local scandal sheet is similarly schizophrenic. Despite my occasionally poking a finger in their editorial eye – an unwise affliction for a writer who pens op/eds – the San Francisco Chronicle is a [...]
