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In 1974 - or 1976, depending who you ask -
Armistead Maupin began writing "an extended love letter to a magical San Francisco” in the form of a serialized, fictional drama published originally in the Pacific Sun, the San Francisco Chronicle and the San Francisco Examiner, originally called
"The Serial" which then became collectively known as
Tales of The City.
It is a suprisingly beautiful, deep, emotional, cosmopolitan and
lasting tale about life in San Francisco in the turbulent, heady days of the 1970s and 1980s.
Widely credited with and cherished for helping spread a little of the openess, tolerance and acceptance that San Francisco is now famous for. It then became a series of books -
Tales of the City,
More Tales of the City,
Further Tales of the City,
Babycakes,
Significant Others,
Sure of You - and lastly, the spin-off tale of
Michael Tolliver Lives. Almost exactly twenty years after first publishing, it then became
an excellent miniseries from the United Kingdom's Channel 4, which
aired in the United States on PBS, but not without
protest or limitations.
posted to MetaFilter by loquacious
at 1:20 AM on May 4, 2008
(39 comments)
How to win at the internet:
Horse mask? Check. Wild mushrooms? Check. Improbable thongs and partial nudity? Check. Dancing? Check. Craziest goddamn thing I've ever seen on the internet? Absolutely.
As if I even need to say it, this isn't safe for work, for human consumption, or retaining what few shreds of sanity you believe that you may still cling to.
posted to MetaFilter by loquacious
at 7:33 AM on January 23, 2008
(54 comments)
Household Hacker
offers a growing variety of bizarrely improbable or impossible "hacks" using household items. How many errors can you spot?
posted to MetaFilter by loquacious
at 7:19 PM on November 23, 2007
(35 comments)
Smile
- a very creepy short student film.
posted to MetaFilter by loquacious
at 8:08 PM on November 17, 2007
(40 comments)
Inside Out
A topographical bedtime story. (Warning, contains spheres!)
posted to MetaFilter by loquacious
at 10:18 PM on August 28, 2007
(20 comments)
Dr. Vernard Eller is no sex maniac.
He is not even very sexy, although this is something you can never be sure about. He is probably just about normal, whatever that is. From the books you read about sex, being normal isn't normal these days. And being abnormal isn't as abnormal as it once was.
posted to MetaFilter by loquacious
at 2:08 AM on April 17, 2007
(26 comments)
Bay Area Yuri's Night 2007
Bay Area Yuri's Night 2007 Yuri's Night Bay Area will be held at Moffett Field in the
NASA Ames Research Center's massive
SOFIA hangar, home to the world's largest aerial observatory. Our host for the evening is pioneering space traveler
Anousheh Anasari, the first privately funded female to reach orbit. She is joined by
Dr. Chris McKay, world renowned expert in astrobiology and terraformation with the Space Science Division of NASA Ames Research Center, as they welcome you to a dazzling array of interactive art installations and science demos, interwoven with musical and acrobatic performances by some of the world's finest entertainers.
Complete write up. Partially via MeFi's own lannanh.
posted to MetaFilter by loquacious
at 2:08 PM on April 6, 2007
(23 comments)
The Codpiece
[coral cache] - An illustrated review of what is quite possibly one of the worst comic books of all time. (Not safe for anyone.)
posted to MetaFilter by loquacious
at 4:50 PM on March 10, 2007
(47 comments)
