Colleen Taylor

Getting my 23andme results was kind of how I imagine it'd be like to visit a really good psychic. I was almost more excited to hear stuff I already knew about myself than I was to learn new things, just because it proved that they actually know what they're doing.



This future stuff is pretty cool, you guys.

"Can you spare some change, miss? So I can get a Kombucha?"
-bum at the corner of Haight and Ashbury


The worst part is, I could kind of relate to his desperation. GT Dave's stuff doesn't exactly come cheap.

... about the things that can be seen in San Francisco while outside during business hours.





They got goats to mow the Presidio!

"All the pretty ladies are livin' out here," Hefner said. "They've been coming here since the early twentieth century. And when they didn't get into movies they became shopgirls and waitresses and they got married and had beautiful children, so you have this per-capita beauty phenomenon going on here that is second to none."

From a fun, short interview with Hugh Hefner in the May 10 New Yorker. I'm not the biggest fan of the present-day Playboy persona, but I do kind of dig the Playboy vibe of the 1960's (which was, incidentally, when Hefner first moved to the Golden State.)