Ahoy! Where does the time FLY! Seems like only yesterday (but it was 22 years ago) that Michael Micael and I first met at San Francisco’s Cafe Flore. From those Castro beginnings sprang a friendship and professional collaboration.
“The Castro is not merely a neighbourhood in San Francisco. It is an idea made physical: a place where history, visibility, grief, celebration, politics, cinema and daily life have converged for generations.” — David Perry @thecastromerch @Castrolgbtq
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Our dear friend Lucinda Hawksley @lucindahawksley gives Dickensian perspective on the latest horror from this administration.
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“Even as the Republican Party has devolved, the Democrats have lost huge swaths of the country. To get them back, the party needs to leave plenty of room for pragmatists who want to run offbeat campaigns about fish.” — Stephen Stromberg @NYTimesOpinion
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Today is the Feast of St. Francis. In the 1972 film “Brother Sun, Sister Moon”, Saint Francis meets Pope Innocent III to seek approval for his radical life of poverty and service. I watch it every year on this date. It never fails to move and inspire me.
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The inmates, truly, have taken over the asylum. I can't even...
"(RFK, Jr.) generated applause when he announced he would be looking at the health effects of electromagnetic radiation & so-called chemtrails."
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Today in San Francisco history! Today is the 250th anniversary of the founding of The Presidio: On September 17, 1776, Spanish forces established the Presidio of San Francisco, making it the northernmost military outpost of New Spain in Alta California.
An informed and sobering read from one of our era’s most respected and most informed voices, @tomfriedman
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