Yesterday, my son's nanny told me he was exchausted from navigating the "vortex of douchebags" at Tartine Bakery -- harsh words from someone watching your infant son!  I know what he means (yes, he's a "manny"), but still, Tartine is one of the best bakeries in the U.S., and, as an infrequent customer, does that mean that I'm included in that vortex?

All sobering thoughts (but I keep going back for those awesome morning buns!).

Unfortunately, I really can't vouch for their burgers -- they might be awesome for all I know!

The rain is torrential, positively Biblical (at least by San Francisco standards), what do you do?  Play in the flash flood that formed outside your house?  Slide down the muddy hills in Dolores

Sports Basement on Bryant street will soon be offering free CPR certification in Spanish (it is already offered in English).

We've said it before, but we'll say it again:  Free beats Cheap anytime!  It goes without saying, really, but it bears repeating.  And what's a better way to get something for free than by just giving it up?  We're referring, of course, to the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition's Gas-Free Fridays.  It's not that you need a special excuse to leave the car behind when you're commuting, or otherwise travelling around the Bay, but SFBC's Gas-Free Fridays campai

Maybe the title of this post should be "Cheaper Rent..."  After all, San Francisco, as you know, is not a cheap place.  And the #1 expense for most folks is rent - that huge chunk of change you fork over every month to the person (or faceless corporation) that owns the building you live in.  (Hell, even if you"own" your place, it's the bank that really calls the shots -- and they won't even fix your toilet if it backs up!)

A donkey's age ago, way back in 1993, Snoop Dogg released the song Gin and Juice, which instantly became a West Coast G-funk hip hop classic (much to the delight of frat boys everywhere).  But with the seemingly materialistic chorus "with my mind on my money and my money on my mind," was Snoop actually offering advice to the Cheap Bastard in all of us?

Benefit show at THE STUD
Sunday, June 15, 2008
399 9th St.
8:00pm

The money raised will go to FLIGHT TO SINAI- a short musical film that a group of local bay area film makers are working on this summer.

www.flighttosinai.com

w/
Andy Tisdall
No New York
Power of Positive Thinking
DJ Walter Crasshole
and a spoken word performance by Irene Vatjaranuruk.

Trash Mash-Up, a community art project, will be hosting a Mash-Up Bash at the San Francisco State University 5th Annual Human Rights Summit on May 2, 2008 at 4:00pm. This summit is a unique event in that it is wholly devised, organized, and hosted by the students of Professor Mariana Ferreira's Anthropology and Human Rights class.

We're all looking for stuff to do.

But when you're jaded and broke in San Francisco, it can be a struggle. What to do? Walk out on the street and hope you run into a "6 foot 7 inch Jew" who will freestyle rap 4 you (it's been known to happen)?