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Author Archives: Bronwyn Ximm
Paper Thief Piques Patron of the Printed Word
Most of us spend so much time in front of screens these days that newspapers are starting to seem downright quaint. Which is why this sign, spotted recently on Eugenia, filled my heart with sadness and made me yearn for … Continue reading
Micro-Interview: Thanksgiving Day at the Good Life
A last-minute scramble for a pie tin (grasshopper pie… mmmmm!) occasioned a Thanksgiving Day visit to the Good Life Grocery. The perfect excuse for a micro-interview! Bernalwood: Anything been flying off the shelves today? Manager Frank: Turkeys! The owners picked … Continue reading
“Bikini Jogger” Micro-Interview: It’s All About the Tan
BREAKING NEWS! The Bikini Jogger was spotted this morning at extremely close range — close enough for her to notice that a harried-looking woman (a.k.a. this reporter) with child in tow wanted to talk to her. Here’s how it went: … Continue reading
Elusive “Bikini Jogger” Enlivens, Perplexes Bernal Heights
In the Pacific Northwest, they have Sasquatch. The Yeti is said to stalk the Himalayas. In Scotland, searchers seek the Loch Ness Monster. And of course, Ahab had his white whale. Here in Bernal Heights, we also have an elusive creature … Continue reading
Name That Spider (and Don’t Get Caught in Its Web)!
OK, all you arachnologists out there, I’m sure one of you can identify this beauty that’s been taking over Bernalwood with a vengeance this Halloween season. We’ve taken to calling ours Shelob because of her large girth, curtain-like webs that … Continue reading
Tonight! Buy Chicken John’s Book, Help Save His Space for ‘Odd and Unlikely Artworks’
On Cesar Chavez Street near Mission, there’s a prominent mural on a jaunty red building that shouts advice to all passers-by: “Fail…to WIN!” That slogan is the subtitle of The Book of the IS, a new book written by the … Continue reading
2011 Bernal Hill Blackberry Crop a Sorry Sight
For months we’ve been hungrily eyeing that prodigious patch of blackberry bushes near the parking lot at the entrance of Bernal Hill Park. After all, what says “It’s summer on Bernal Hill” more than picking and munching your own blackberries … Continue reading
Wait, Bernal Yoga Instructors Are Undercover Cops? Huh?
For weeks this ad, plastered on the side of Bernal Yoga and adjacent to the Good Life parking lot, has been causing Bernalwood residents to scratch their heads. Clearly it was intended for an actual highway billboard that a police … Continue reading
Bernal Succulent Thief Really Sucks
Keep an eye on your yards, everyone. A western slope resident reports that someone recently hacked off a number of the large succulents she had been lovingly tending in her front yard for the past five years. “This reminded me … Continue reading
Dude, Share My Car
Need a car? Live in Bernalwood? Maybe you should take my neighbor’s Scion xD, which is currently parked on Virginia Avenue near Winfield. It’ll run you just eight bucks an hour, which includes gas, insurance, and 20 miles/hour. Such transactions … Continue reading
Bernalwood Author Envisions Attack by Cute Zombie Bunnies
If there are two things Bernalwood boasts in spades, it’s creative types and kids. One of the former, six-year hill resident Aaron Ximm — my husband! — officially became a capital-A author yesterday with the publication of his first book, … Continue reading
Winter Creeps In, and With It Comes… Vermin!
Screw winter solstice. The way I know that autumn has succumbed to winter in San Francisco is when I have my first sighting of a most unwelcome guest: the Jerusalem cricket, a.k.a. potato bug. My introduction to this indigenous terror … Continue reading
