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nowhere here to call my home
I drove down Union the other night, only to see a woman standing on a street corner with luggage. Like, a lot of luggage – three big suitcases worth. Normally I would slow down to see if she was...
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i step through the fog and i creep through the smog
It was slower than it’s been in a while last night out on the streets. Between the fog rolling in early, the cold air, the 9-5ers not getting paid this Friday and the encroaching rent next week, no one...
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we get these pills to swallow, how they stick in your throat
Today is day two of taking a hemp oil supplement to try to lower my anxiety. I went with a friend yesterday and had him run in to a dispensary to get me the product. We went to get a bowl of Bun Bo Hue...
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i drive on her streets ’cause, she’s my companion
Last night was my slowest night in over a month. There was barely anyone out past ten o’clock and I should have done what my brain was telling me to do and hang it up after that ride at one o’clock,...
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now you’re lost, lost in the heat of it all
I woke up today on the complete wrong side of the bed. Maybe it was the strange ultra-realistic dreams I had or maybe it was because I was sleeping in an unfamiliar bed, but regardless of the reason, I...
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gotta get it while the gettin’s good, gotta strike while the iron’s hot,...
Today marks the first Oracle convention I’ve worked as a night driver since 2007 and if its anything like prior years, it stands to be the busiest week of the year. Fifty thousand people plus show up...
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this is it, what, luchini pourin’ from the sky
The streets were jamming last night, despite the cold weather and the three day weekend. I went to work right on time, thinking that as San Francisco’s indian summer had taken a momentary lapse toward...
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tie your napkin ’round your neck cherie, and we’ll provide the rest
And all of a sudden life gets really busy with good things. In less than a week is Thanksgiving and I’m headed to Marin for a day off with my nephew and a few other friends, pies in hand. If time and...
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you’re speeding up to slow down, down, down
The last twenty-four hours have been a blur of friends and errands and phone calls and appointments. I’m actually amazed at what I got done during my time off. I woke up Sunday afternoon, the sun...
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have you ever misplaced your mind, watching this world leave you behind
Something odd is going on in San Francisco. Yes, I could sit here and talk about the gentrification of the Mission and SOMA and the TL and rising rents and the tech sector, all of which may be wholly...
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