Like Mike Waters (River Phoenix) in My Own Private Idaho, I am a connoisseur of roads. Whether on foot, by bike or on transit, I love to wander through neighborhoods, observing how the character of a city changes from street to street.

I don’t [...]

There are times when the life of an urban dweller can touch on the woesome.

A weekend walk through Hayes Valley, Civic Center, Russian Hill and elsewhere turned into an ambush of bodily humours, the nose giving me information the head wishes to forget.

Later in the week, a driver ran into me [...]

Biking home from work a couple weeks ago, a couple of guys in an Oldsmobile with a ‘God Bless America’ sticker ran me off the road. They both got out of their car near a busy intersection and one ran towards me shouting ‘Get a car, you homo!’

There seems to be something [...]