HerbCaen
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San Francisco has "color" to an almost overwhelmingly degree. Not all of it is pretty — but all of it is real; all of it memorable.
6:05 PM Dec 18th, 2011
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from San Francisco, CA
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Indian summer, and the old city asleep and dreaming —silent, and perfect as the moon overhead.
7:24 PM Oct 11th, 2011
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from San Francisco, CA
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It's the indescribable conglomeration of beauty and ugliness that makes San Francisco a poem without meter – a city without equal.
6:21 PM Aug 8th, 2011
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from San Francisco, CA
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A machine might replace a columnist someday, all right, but it won't get any more work done. Not if it's properly programmed.
6:56 PM Jul 2nd, 2011
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San Francisco: Postcards in glowing colors stacked against the hills that march from the Bay on one side to the Pacific Ocean on the other.
11:10 AM May 16th, 2011
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from San Francisco, CA
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Mid-Market Street. It is wide, long, stubborn, and unregenerate — a true brute of a street. A dead end with a life all its own.
3:40 PM Apr 25th, 2011
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from San Francisco, CA
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Isn't it nice that people who prefer Los Angeles to San Francisco live there?
11:24 AM Mar 31st, 2011
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Gone are the years when everything was as it should be...When you smiled about bridges across the Bay and buses instead of streetcars.
12:38 PM Mar 26th, 2011
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Caress each Spanish syllable. Don't say "Frisco." Don't say "San-Fran-Cis-Co." That's how tourists pronounce it. It's "SanfrnSISco."
1:05 PM Mar 22nd, 2011
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from Twitter HQ, San Francisco
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Occasionally you'll be drenched by a downpour the natives call "wet fog." It hardly ever rains in The City. But it "wet fogs" quite a bit.
6:37 PM Mar 19th, 2011
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A mistake is simply another way of doing things.
12:37 PM Mar 15th, 2011
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from Twitter HQ, San Francisco
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I began as a sentimentalist and a callow nostalgic. I thought The City was the greatest city in the world -- there were no warts on my lady.
10:19 PM Feb 21st, 2011
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from San Francisco, CA
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If he's a native San Franciscan he'll tell you the first time you meet him; if he isn't, he'll say that he was "practically" born here.
6:32 PM Feb 12th, 2011
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from San Francisco, CA
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"Cogito ergo spud" [I think, therefore I yam]
2:47 PM Jan 19th, 2011
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from San Francisco, CA
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Love makes this town go 'round. Love and hate, pot and booze, despair and buckets of coffee, most of it stale.
6:48 AM Jan 14th, 2011
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from San Francisco, CA
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The smug majesty of City Hall's famed dome: Higher (and dirtier) than Washington's, and so far above the conniving that goes on beneath it.
3:03 PM Jan 13th, 2011
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from San Francisco, CA
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The old days might not have been better, but they were certainly different in the nicest possible way.
8:19 AM Jan 13th, 2011
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from San Francisco, CA
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Saturday night dies slowly, for those who worship it and live for it do their best to keep it alive. And tomorrow they die with a hangover.
4:19 PM Jan 8th, 2011
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from San Francisco, CA
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Above the city floats a haze of turkey, champagne and garbage. Underfoot, gift wrapping and Scotch tape stuck to your sole.
12:09 PM Dec 25th, 2010
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from San Francisco, CA
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I sometimes worry about my short attention span, but not for very long.
2:56 PM Dec 22nd, 2010
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- Name Herb Caen
- Location Baghdad By The Bay
- Web http://bit.ly/her...
- Bio ...A continuing love affair with The City...
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