Entries Tagged as 'california'

notes white people leave

April 3rd, 2008 · 197 Comments

omg, ramekin drama! (from san francisco, natch…)
(click to enlarge!)

related: #54 kitchen gadgets [stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.org]

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Tags: excessive underlining · meta · moving/not moving · san francisco

maybe you should switch to body wash?

March 31st, 2008 · 85 Comments

at least that would make the roommate situation a little less hairy…

related: losing lisa

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Tags: hair · hygiene · roommates · san diego · shower · that shit is disgusting

it’s not a race (it’s a social construct)

March 25th, 2008 · 194 Comments

here’s a trio of notes from california that each make me very uncomfortable…and not just because of the painful lack of irony.
first up: an excerpt from seating guidelines posted at the quaint little mexican restaurant in huntington beach where brynn used to waitress. so quaint, in fact, brynn says “they also posted a dress code [...]

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Tags: california · casual xenophobia · parking · restaurant · san diego

je comprends…moi non plus

March 10th, 2008 · 254 Comments

marc in san francisco spotted this at a restaurant in the haight called all you knead (have fun with those puns, kids). i can certainly empathize, but after reading some of the reviews…well, maybe there’s a reason the tips aren’t so great.

related: a friendly tip from your waitress

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Tags: "helpful" advice · a little patronizing · francais · restaurant · san francisco

stop, hammertime

February 26th, 2008 · 87 Comments

so, after seeing this note from daily piglet in columbia, south carolina:

and this one, from anna in providence, rhode island:

and this doozy from an anonymous san francisco office worker…

is it any wonder that this photo from afroswede’s flickrstream (and others) came to mind?

(meanwhile, over at bethany’s “blog”…u can touch this.)
related: can i lick [...]

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Tags: blitzkrieg approach · exclamation-point happy! · providence · san francisco · south carolina · temperature · touching

landmine in my bloodline

February 8th, 2008 · 108 Comments

nothing could have prepared lauren in oakland for the passive-aggressive avalanche that awaited her the other day at her new apartment. she calls the experience of finding the notes totally surreal. “it keeps playing back in slow motion in my mind, from the second i saw the first one hanging over the threshold to my [...]

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Tags: blitzkrieg approach · cleaning · ellipses-crazed · oakland · roommates · spelling and grammar police

a friend of a friend is our enemy

February 7th, 2008 · 83 Comments

tina is los angeles didn’t have any problem with her roommate’s friend couchsurfing at their apartment for a month, but both she and her roomie started to get irked when the friend started inviting other friends to stay over — and then kept doing it, even after the roomie expressly asked her not to. “the [...]

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Tags: excessive underlining · los angeles · not-so-veiled threats · pleasantries as afterthought · roommates