Funny!

Soundtrack for a sad day.

I'm a woman and moody and I wasn't feeling great today. Nothing special happened or didn't happen today. I just felt really low and I started thinking every single female on earth was prettier than me and I wanted to crawl in a hole and cry.

I'm a bit of an emotional masochist, so rather than find something to distract myself, I took up the classic bluesman philosophy that it can feel good to feel really bad. Here's what I listened to:

Sleater-Kinney - Modern Girl WTF is this song about? I dunno, but I feel like I get it and they get me.

Matt Skiba - The City that Day The internetz tell me that he wrote this song about the day he met his wife. And The City he refers to is, indeed, our fair city of San Francisco.
Actually, the song I listened to today was "In Your Wake," but there's no YouTube of Skiba singing it. Pity.

Blink 182 - I Miss You I love how it doesn't rhyme.

Dear Financial District eateries,

I'm glad you're switching to compostable to-go containers and utensils, but if I don't have a compost bin to dispose of them in, then what's the point? It's my understanding that some of these corn spoons and compostable plastics don't spontaneously decompose.

This particularly offends me when the higher price of these containers is reflected in the price of your food. I'm basically paying a premium to feel like you're a good, green business, and that I'm a good person for patronizing you.

I can feel like a good person for pennies on the dollar, thankyouverymuch.

So, I'm proposing to y'all that, at minimum, a) you have a compost bin next to your trash and recycling bins in your own establishment; b) we all try to convince the malls like Crocker Galleria and other public eating places to have compost bins, too.

Signed,
A Concerned Citizen, Kinda Tired of "Greening" in Name Only

Breakfast appetizer at Lola.

Originally uploaded by contraversion

OMG these were amazing.

See other stuff we did in Seattle this weekend here.

Steve Jenson: Man and Myth.

You ever go to a gathering of people, and you all submit fun trivia about yourself and you all try to guess who won a pie-eating contest in 6th grade, or is part of the Nigerian royal line?

This is an extremely difficult exercise for me since my personal life history is about as dull as dirt, or else only relevant to sub-populations.

Steve, however, has fun personal trivia in spades. He's lousy with fun trivia.

So, to commemorate his 30 years of life, I've compiled a list of items that are known about Steve. I made a nice framed deal for him, but you can view a web-friendly version here. (It's fairly ginormous, but hopefully Firefox scales it down for you.)

To make it fun, I've also included some items which are not true. You'll just have to separate fact from fiction yourself.

Happy birthday, sweetie. ;)