8 July 1999

So I’ve decided to put the mid-life crisis on hold, at least until my birthday. Irma will be posting a list of appropriate consolation gifts soon, as you have only 33 shopping days left.

I’m too damned busy this week to have a crisis anyway. Aside from work, I’m also noticing that this week seems to be “Take Planet SOMA Seriously Week”. I’m honored, if perplexed, that anyone really cares what I have to say.

At the risk of sounding “full of myself”, here are a few examples:

  • There was my recent “revealing” interview and review in Nightcharm. That was fun.
  • Time Magazine (wow…talk about “legitimate”) currently has a link to my former Harvey Milk page on its site.
  • In the past few weeks, sections of Planet SOMA have been featured in two Yahoo “Full Coverage” pages: one on gentrification and one on SF’s Gay Pride Weekend.
  • In the past two days, I’ve been approached to do two interviews on the “gentrification in San Francisco” issue.

The mind boggles, no? The big question, of course, is how I can make all this new-found fame (or notoriety) help pay the rent? I’ll accept any ideas other than those saying I should pose nekkid again. Oh, what the hell. I’ll listen to those too.

Maybe I should just take a nap and ponder on this for a few minutes. Or maybe I should just take a nap. Period.

While I’m asleep, feel free to check out today’s links du jour:

Maybe more when I wake up. but I doubt it. I’m usually pretty groggy…