Electra Fairford / Relations
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October 17, 1989. Yours truly was shy of about being ten months old by ten days when the Loma Prieta shook the entire Bay Area. The third game of the world series was interrupted, the cypress freeway collapsed, around 60 people died that day from fal...
Condiments do not go gentle into the quiet night Troubled by the sudden warmth of the atmosphere and perturbed by a lack of fog drifting through an open window, I found myself at odds with sleep. Tossing and turning when suddenly, there was for a la...
[[Find yourself]] What does that mean? Well... let's think On second thought...
We had a very strange winter/spring transition here in Pittsburgh. It never really snowed very much and started warming up intermittently. This means we'd have weeks of 70+ ºF, sunny weather, bookended by short-term snowfalls. On one such week, we d...
My friend Angus did not like that McDonalds had a sandwich with his name in it, much less that it was an Angus Pounder One letter off.
Six of your SFØ Senators held a debate. Loki moderated. It had come time for the SF0 Senators to be more than simply figureheads, and to begin to organize around the important issues concerning SF0. In this debate, we strove to not only address t...
I have been in public education for all of my life, and the way it works can be hard to swallow, if not difficult to digest. As a student, parent, and instructor, I have always looked at the finished product and wondered why it is we go through this ...
I have made an attempt with this task to satire actual campaign speeches by embedding Jerry Brown's actual acceptance speech for his gubernatorial campaign in California and even including a speech from Japan threatening to bring Godzilla down on ev...
This scar hid a living being, a part of me that I live with every day. I had gone through most of my life wondering what it was that was sitting like double-wad of Bubble Yum on the ball of my thumb. It shifted to every part of my hand uncontrollabl...
Gregory P. Farnsworth (1905-1976) Farnsworth, known as "Peak" by his students was an instructor at the University of California, Berkeley. Dabbling briefly in architecture and mechanics, he left behind a treasure trove of things to rummage through...