Perhaps I should explain why this page suddenly has a San Francisco theme, even though I actually live in Seattle, Washington.



Partly, it's because I am a longtime fan of what newspaper columnist Herb Caen called "Baghdad by the Bay." But it is also because I've just embarked on the writing of a photo history of San Francisco. This will be my… Continue

Well, it took more than a little time and even more frantic double-checking to be sure that everything was in place, but the second installment of the Carnival of the Criminal Minds is finally up at The Rap Sheet. You can read it here.



As most of you know, Barbara Fister proposed in a mid-September… Continue