According to Advertising Age, one of the more offensive ad campaigns of recent days has cracked the top ten of most memorable/most liked spots for the week.  The ads for TGI Friday's feature the hacktastic Guy Fieri speaking directly to the viewer, in one of them saying "hey buddy, your da...

Having broken the cardinal rule of never arriving on campus between 12 and 1, I spend the forty-five minutes I'd carefully put between myself and my appointment circling and circling looking for a legal visitor spot.  During one of those swings I ran into the Fake Boyfriend, who was on campus f...

I was sitting in Taylor's, eating fish and chips at half the amount and twice the price of the SF Fish Company, which stops serving hot food at three.  Overly steaky fish with a thin, bitter batter not easily disguised by liberal applications of the tartar sauce, decent if nondescript fries.&nb...

World In Motion has an interesting round up with Nick Fortugno (creator of Diner Dash and co-founder of yet-to-be-launched RebelMonkey) on the state of the ... casual MMO? Seems like a bit of an oxymoron, but with the statement "The casual barbarians are coming!", Fortugno explains the particulars o...

The gentle whooshing scrape scrape is the sound of a metal spatula moving steak shavings around on a griddle.  The sound of cheesesteaks being made!  I was looking for a place that served good classic onion rings on Yelp, and stumbled across a burger shack in the Lower Haight that had not ...

Remember that scene in Pretty in Pink where Duckie tries to avoid getting beaten up by some preppies by telling them "well, my broker is E.F. Hutton" and then, as he gets carted off to the girls' room, muttering to himself "it never works"?  Aside from being one of my favori...