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Another Octopus Murder: American Conspiracies and True Crime Stories

Netflix’s American Conspiracy: The Octopus Murders connected a cold case I wrote about to another unsolved murder I was barely aware of.

Mar 22

Mugshot of California murderer and rapist Phillip Arthur Thompson

Mar 22

bob calhoun

2012 vs. 2112: Neil Peart, Rush and Forgotten Disaster Films

A now forgotten disaster flick led me to write this essay pondering Neil Peart of Rush way back in 2009. I feared it was lost forever but…

Jan 11, 2020

2012 vs. 2112: Neil Peart, Rush and Forgotten Disaster Films

Jan 11, 2020

bob calhoun

Silicon Valley Comic Con is not like other comic cons

The crowd follows Steve Wozniak around the floor of the Glass House in downtown San Jose, but nobody gets too close. It’s like he’s…

Apr 23, 2017

Silicon Valley Comic Con is not like other comic cons

Apr 23, 2017

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The KKK Took SFPD Away

A botched Klan raid in Los Angeles County in 1922 exposed the Invisible Empire’s once-extensive infiltration of the SFPD.

Nov 10, 2016

The KKK Took SFPD Away

Nov 10, 2016

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Yesterday’s Crimes: Oddities and Endities

This blog is supplemental material to my 9/24/2015 “Yesterday’s Crimes” column in the SF Weekly. Click here to check it out, but it’s about…

Sep 28, 2015

Yesterday’s Crimes: Oddities and Endities

Sep 28, 2015

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Hunter S. Thompson wants Joe Biden to run.

Joe Biden isn’t running for president right now, but SFist is reporting a rumor that Joe will announce his 2016 presidential bid in San…

Aug 25, 2015

Aug 25, 2015

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Hunter S. Thompson on Joe Biden

Joe Biden isn’t running for president right now, but there does seem to be interest in this sort of thing, even if it’s mostly from bored…

Aug 4, 2015

Aug 4, 2015

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Giving The Brady Bunch the Mad Men Series Finale Treatment

Breaking Brady part 2

May 18, 2015

Giving The Brady Bunch the Mad Men Series Finale Treatment

May 18, 2015

bob calhoun

Breaking Brady

Are We Taking TV too Seriously?

May 14, 2015

Breaking Brady

May 14, 2015

bob calhoun

When Incredibly Strange Wrestling took on the Church of Scientology

Before Hoodslam won coverage in Vice and the New York Times by bringing raunchy pro-wrestling to drunks in Bay Area warehouses, there was…

Apr 30, 2015

When Incredibly Strange Wrestling took on the Church of Scientology

Apr 30, 2015

bob calhoun

bob calhoun

Author of The Murders That Made Us, a true crime history of San Francisco. Former SFWeekly, Incredibly Strange Wrestling, Black Dragon FS. He/him

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