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Years in Review

·Dec 28, 2016

Tarin’s Year in Review: 2016 Bottles of Poison on the Wall

2016 tricked me into thinking it was going to be a good, productive year. I mainly expected two things: I was going to find permanent housing; our country would have a free and fair election. Welp. Last year I was so optimistic; for my 2015 Year in Review, I wrote…

San Francisco

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San Francisco

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Nov 8, 2016

Tarin’s Last Minute 2016 San Francisco Ballot Measure Cheat Sheet

For California state ballot measures, see this page. For greater detail on these propositions, see the guides from the League of Pissed off Voters, Sasha Magee’s CA/SF Slate, and the SF Bay Guardian. A — Yes — School Bonds — funds safety, classrooms, two new schools in the SE, move…

San Francisco

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San Francisco

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Nov 8, 2016

Tarin’s Last Minute 2016 California Ballot Measure Cheat Sheet

For local San Francisco ballot measures, see this page. For greater detail on these propositions, see the guides from the League of Pissed off Voters, Sasha Magee’s CA/SF Slate, and the SF Bay Guardian. Prop 51 — Nope — There are no provisions to fund low-income schools and this mostly…

San Francisco

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San Francisco

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THE SHOCKER

·Sep 20, 2016

TEAM DREAMS: Looking for New Orleans Pelicans Answers With Actual Pelicans

Sports teams name themselves for fearsome beings, animals that charge and leap and buck, humans that dominate landscapes with the violence of war or of commerce. The NBA harbors its share of animal assassins, as well as Magic, Wizards, Heat and Jazz. …

NBA

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TEAM DREAMS: Looking for New Orleans Pelicans Answers With Actual Pelicans
TEAM DREAMS: Looking for New Orleans Pelicans Answers With Actual Pelicans
NBA

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THE SHOCKER

·Sep 5, 2016

Six American Holidays That Are Actually About Our Troops

On discovering that Labor Day is a celebration of uniformed servicepeople — Labor Day (First Monday in September) It took me a minute, but the Governor is right: Labor Day is about our men and women in uniform, the maids and fry cooks, the mechanics and nurses, the clowns and mimes who band together to institute workplace safety and tolerable limits to…

Holidays

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Six American Holidays That Are Actually About Our Troops
Six American Holidays That Are Actually About Our Troops
Holidays

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Mar 27, 2016

On Selling Out: How to Negotiate a Tenant Buyout in San Francisco

A buyout is a type of eviction. You’re losing your home; don’t settle for less than you can afford. — In this essay, I first explain why hiring a startup to negotiate a buyout is a terrible idea. After that, you’ll find a comprehensive guide to everything I’ve learned about buyouts and how they pertain to tenants’ rights in San Francisco. Newsweek posted an article Friday about a San Francisco…

Housing

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On Selling Out: How to Negotiate a Tenant Buyout in San Francisco
On Selling Out: How to Negotiate a Tenant Buyout in San Francisco
Housing

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Jan 15, 2016

Always Tweet, 2015

My best work is short — I don’t know why Medium suggested a keyword of “Surrender,” but I’m keeping it. I wrote a whole series of tweets about the Mission when I was losing my apartment at the same time as there was a call for auditions for a show called “94110.” …

Surrender

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Surrender

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Jan 3, 2016

Fuck Up Some Commas: New Year’s Resolutions 2016

Not everything has to do with writing or not writing, but most things do. — Fuck Up Some Commas: New Year’s Resolutions It’s true, January 1 is an arbitrary date to take stock, but it’s as fine a marker as any. The odometer rolls over on the last year, and it’s a good time to tinker under your hood or even take yourself into the…

New Years Resolutions

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Fuck Up Some Commas: New Year’s Resolutions 2016
Fuck Up Some Commas: New Year’s Resolutions 2016
New Years Resolutions

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Years in Review

·Dec 29, 2015

Tarin’s year in review, 2015

The year I lost my home and found my voice — 2015 was notable for me in two ways: My knock-down, drag-out fight with my landlord ended, finally, in me losing my apartment after more than a year of fighting to save it. And, in many ways because of this, I started writing again. Good things happened this year, although moving…

San Francisco

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Tarin’s year in review, 2015
Tarin’s year in review, 2015
San Francisco

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Dec 22, 2015

Solstice Bonfires and Christmas Trees

How San Francisco Witches Celebrate Yule — The first time I plunged naked into the ocean on Winter Solstice, I was one of about a hundred people shedding their clothes for that part of the biggest outdoor ritual of the year. If you go in the ocean, you need to take a buddy, because people have died…

San Francisco

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Solstice Bonfires and Christmas Trees
Solstice Bonfires and Christmas Trees
San Francisco

7 min read

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