SF Comes Clean With Anonymous Confessions
I was curious what this fine city’s inhabitants might be hiding, so I asked people to fill out an anonymous form with instructions to come clean about whatever they felt compelled to confess....
Personal EssayA collection of 144 posts
A Week of Scandalous Anonymous Stories
We’ve heard some crazy personal stories. The kind that make us laugh our asses off, our jaws drop down to the floor, or our heads shake with amazement....
How I Came to Love Living in Oakland
When I graduated from UC Berkeley in the spring of 2012, I was eager to start what I had imagined would be my new “adult” life in the city....
What Is the San Francisco Dream?
When I was a kid, I was sure I’d grow up to be a writer. I imagined living in Los Angeles with my best friend, working toward our ultimate joint-life goal of becoming the next Tina Fey-Mike West hybrid genius television-writing partners....
San Francisco Has an Evil Twin
It can be trippy to try to remember what San Francisco first looked like through your wide, virgin eyes....
Why I Love Living in the Inner Sunset
During my first couple months of living in San Francisco, I didn’t even know where the Inner Sunset was....
When Is a Little Coke Too Much?
People who do drugs every day are drug addicts, but I didn’t feel like one....
I (Don’t) Hate My Curves
Last year I was having dinner at Burma Superstar when I overheard a conversation between a couple at a neighboring table....
Why Is San Francisco So Hard on Single People?
I don’t know how it happened. One day I was the last single person left among my friends. Looking around the table during a recent dinner, I was the only non-couple in attendance....
Telling Your Friends You’re Sober
By the time my decades-long chemical spree had ended, I had published a memoir about my exploits that a sober friend called a “drunkalogue” — a reference to AA disclosures that painstakingly detail every gutter puked in, stranger punched and bedsheet peed upon....
My Gay Best Friend
In San Francisco there are two kinds of male/female pairings. One is the heterosexual coupling. The second is the GBF/straight girl duo. GBF: Gay Best Friend....
Friend Me
When I first moved here, I would have been surprised to hear myself make that statement....