I will be in San Francisco’s City Hall on Monday and Tuesday taking pictures of the happy couples, howling protesters and assorted well-wishers for In La Magazine and The Bilerico Project.

For those of you who want to see the pics as I post them, you can click on the THIS LINK to go directly to my Flickr set.

The first photos won’t post until after 5:30pm Pacific Time on Monday and I will be posting on Tuesday through out the day.

I will be able to receive email on location, just click on CONTACT and the email will route directly to my phone.

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Tags: same sex marriage, san francisco, the bilerico project, in la magazine, photography, wedding photos, gay, lesbian, protest

Well, I was shocked but the Chronicle called and sent me a freelance contract to run one of my strips. It was as simple as that. Well, actually it wasn’t so simple. It took three years of cartooning and getting good at it. But let me tell ya, having “freelance editorial cartoonist for the San Francisco Chronicle” on ye olde resume is way past cool.

Yeah, it was ONLY one strip and it ran on a Saturday, but it was in the Chronicle and they put on the editorial page. THE Editorial page. Maybe I should frame the contract?

But, you never know. The idea is to see how it was received and go from there. I sent them another half dozen strips today for them to review.

This is how Gary Larson of The Far Side fame started out. He sent a few strips to the Chronicle, they ran them, then the Chronicle syndicated his strip and the rest is history.

I am hoping history will repeat itself.

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Tags: editorial cartoon, comics, webcomics, san francisco chronicle

I walked into a bookstore and found a couple of titles by a friend of mine, Vincent Bridges. I am sure he will get a kick to know he has a large fan base in that town.

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Fuck, I hate flying in America these days. George Bush can kiss my ass. With all the chuggin of breast milk and doing without toothpaste on the airplane is just stupid. Of course, they stopped feeding you on American Airlines so I guess that is a wash - no need to brush if you don’t eat on the plane. The rest of the world seems to do a lot better at handling terrorism that we Americans.

And to top it all off, when we changed planes in Dallas, I saw this mouse sitting on top of the McDonald’s sign in Concourse C.

Serves me right for landing in Texas.

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Our last day to enjoy the city. We hit up Les Croissants Cafe again for some of those wonderful grits and then took the 37 out to the Cliff House. Walked through Golden Gate Park to 36th street to Kwok Hongs Chinese Herbs to stock up on Moxa Sticks, then headed to Samovar Tea Lounge for the best food we had all week. The most expensive lunch we had, but it was the absolute best food we’ve had all week. Can’t recommend it enough.

We met up with Bill and David and the rest of the posse at Chow’s for the last meal before we head out of town tomorrow.

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The clock is ticking down and my time in the city is once again coming to a close, so today was shopping day!

We started off with breakfast at our B&B, the Parker House. Then off to Sephora on Union St., Sumbody, Joseph Schmidt Confections and then Crystal Way.

We ate lunch at La Cucina which was a fun little eatery with a great back-patio dining. That night, we cruised over to David and Bill’s place and ordered take-out from Big Lantern - this was some of the best Chinese food I have had in a very long time.

After the Chinese and more than a few screwdrivers, we packed it in and went back to Parker House.

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Didn’t do a ton - kicked back and relaxed a bit.

The highlight was finding well-made southern grits in San Francisco!

Les Croissants Cafe on Geary was the only place to get grits in the city.

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Bill and David got married! This was my first Gay Jewish Wedding and it seems like it was the first for many also. The synagogue they were married in, this was not only their first gay wedding, but the first wedding ever! It was even more significant because David’s Hebrew name is, well David and Bill’s is Johnathan. When the Rabbi announced that, the crowd gasped.

I wondered through the rest of the service what that would symbolize. I couldn’t remember any links between King David and St. John… they seemed to be too far apart time-wise and weren’t they different figures from different religions?

I asked Bill about this and he told me it was not St. John, but a different Johnathan - King David’s lover. I must have missed that lesson in Sunday School or I was kicked out of Sunday School way before they got to the good stuff.

After the ceremony, several of us packed up and cruised through Marin County for a long drive.

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Left GSO on a jet plane and let me say, Bush sux. At first they took our toothpaste and we said nothing…

American Airlines seems to only be willing to feed the folks in first class these days. Back in 2001 when I started travelling regularly to San Francisco, I thought ATA was an airline that reminded me of a prison train. Well, compared to what American Airlines is today, ATA was a luxury liner.

Hell, you couldn’t even BUY an in-flight meal. It wasn’t even an option. If Homeland Security prevents you from taking drinks onboard, the airlines need to step up and start feeding their passengers on cross-country flights.

Very piss-poor.

The issue of lotion is a pain since it too is banned from carry-on luggage. My wife came up with a novel idea. Use moisturizing lip balm. If you get a tube with coco butter or the like, it makes a great lotion for your hands a least. Just rub the stick on your cuticles and palms.

Also, by using this, it is kinda like sticking it to the man.

Once we landed, we ate at HOME.

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