when i lived in berkeley, the San Francisco Chronicle's website, SFGate, was my home page. At some point, I discovered the columnist Mark Morford [scroll down to the bottom of this page for his picture, it becomes pertinent], and really liked him. he talks about politics and sex and sex toys and the evils of the current administration in a snarky ranty run-on sentence kind of way. The first few times I read his stuff, I thought he was unique and refreshing. Then after a while, it got to be a bit much, and a bit stale. Then, due to some kind of blow-up [i don't remember the details] about something he wrote, his presence and his newsletters got scaled back a wee bit, after disappearing entirely for a short while. I really miss the old newsletters, b/c he used to alert his newsletter recipients to new music and other products that were fun to check out. He also used to share some of the crazy hate-mail he would get, which was hysterical. Now he's back, and I have much less time, and am only able to really read his stuff approximately once a month, instead of three times a week, and so I don't have to worry about his tone getting a little old, or his word choices repetitive anymore, and I still like him lots.

I'm pretty sure that when my sis lived with me, I had her read an article or two of his. That was at least 2 years ago. recently she sent me a link to one of his pieces saying, "you should check this guy out, you'd really like him!" and then recently when i was with her in CA, she told me that after having read his articles for months, she finally found the link that led to his photo and was SHOCKED. she said she had always pictured him as some fat hairy guy sitting in the dark of his apartment ranting away at the keyboard. Now that she knows that he's not old, not fat (and I think?) not hairy, but rather thin, relatively attractive, and teaches yoga, she's in love.

The image she had created for some reason really cracked me up. i've always pictured him in a very modern sleek and airy apartment with minimal furniture, a beautiful apple laptop sitting on some modern shiny coffee table, while he is spending much time with his beautiful significant other on the balcony looking over SF. Somehow, picturing a fat old hairy man in a dark apartment going on and on about sex toys was very ..... WRONG .... to me. I couldn't imagine liking his stuff with that picture in mind.

all that to say, i enjoyed this week's article.

posted by Zuska @ 2:24 PM

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