I was feeling so positive about having a letter published in the East Bay Express a couple weeks ago that I submitted a letter to the San Francisco Chronicle. Unfortunately, this time, my contribution was apparently not fit to print. I was responding to a letter in the Aug. 13 edition; it’s available here, but that’s behind a paywall for […]
Read More →Thanks to my friend Jeff, who just posted a link on Facebook to something I wrote back in 2012, which is now relevant again! I just reread it and thought, “Wow, I sure made a lot of good points four years ago.” I Hate the Olympics
Read More →Nothing says “I’m turning into an old crank” more than writing letters to the editor of a print newspaper! I had a letter printed in this week’s edition of the East Bay Express, a free weekly. So far nobody’s commented on it, which means (a) no one I know reads the letters column in the […]
Read More →I came across this article today, a beautifully meandering meditation on one fan’s life after “Late Show with David Letterman,” which went off the air in May 2015. “He shouldn’t have been allowed to retire,” states Julie Hecht. “It was a job, like being President. His term wasn’t over.” There was a time when Letterman was […]
Read More →I’m taking the blog out of hibernation to discuss the play currently running at Shotgun Players, “The Village Bike.” (Warning: spoilers ahead.) It has been the subject of tremendous controversy and a lot of discussion in the local theater community, because the brand-new, young critic at the San Francisco Chronicle gave it the dreaded “empty […]
Read More →The people who regularly read this blog—by which I mean my friend Vallery and my parents—sometimes ask me, “Hey Sue, why don’t you update your blog more frequently?” Well, what if I guaranteed that I’d be writing a new blog post every week? That’s the experiment I’m attempting over at saturdayreader.net. I started that blog on […]
Read More →I have mentioned before how frequently I get called in for jury duty. It happened again this week, and I thought this time, maybe I’ll actually make it onto a jury and get to see the legal system close-up! Alas, it was not to be. Among the 65 or so people gathered at the Wiley W. Manuel […]
Read More →There’s not much I can say that hasn’t been said already. I first became a fan after catching the weird & wonderful videos for “Fashion” and “Ashes to Ashes” on MTV, and I gradually bought his whole catalog when I was in high school. I don’t know why this is the song that’s been running through my […]
Read More →Is it possible to overdose on comedy? San Francisco in January is the place to find out, since our much-heralded annual comedy festival, Sketchfest, is offering up over 200 shows this year. I’m pretty sure I’ve attended at least a couple of programs at every single fest—even if you have unlimited time and money, you have to […]
Read More →There’s a guy named Steve whose blog I look forward to checking out at the end of every year, when he posts a marathon series of top-10 lists. Not content just to list his top 10 favorite novels and nonfiction, he does separate lists for categories like biography, romance (!), mysteries, science fiction, and debut […]
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