Author: kid oakland

[promoted to the front page by BooMan]I was driving up Alcatraz Avenue…it’s a long east / west street that ends near my house and leads down to the San Francisco Bay.  From where I live, the street itself frames...

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…. I coined the use of the terms: oatmeal and sugar smacks…. In reference to two different types of diaries on dKos.  Oatmeal being the kind of upright, forthright decent...

When I was eighteen years old I met an older woman in Manhattan named Ellen.  Everyone who went to my university knew her.  She was a fixture.  Like Amir’s or Mama Joy’s deli or the Cosmo restaurant....