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...other words, but more urban, more hopped up, less buttoned down. San Francisco's mild but flighty climate must nurture eccentrics. In 1849, the city's commissioner of deeds resigned to become a singer-songwriter. Some years later, a circus geek called Oofty Goofty became a sidewalk S-M entrepreneur: he let passers-by cane him for a quarter or hit him with a baseball bat for four bits. When another local loon, the self-appointed Norton I, Emperor of North America and Protector of Mexico, died in 1880, 30,000 people (out of a population...
...They do not whittle an object-a slingshot, say, or a whistle-so much as they just whittle away the stick. They make long, precise strokes, and the shavings curl before the blade like something delicate being wound. When the stick is reduced to an aromatic pile on the sidewalk, they go and get another...
...aides and reporters to pick up Jackson at Jarrard's home Tuesday morning, and borrow $12 from a reporter to pay the fare. Even then, Aide Frank Watkins had to stop the caravan of vans and buses to ask exact directions from two children playing on a nearby sidewalk...
After dark, the protestors spread sleeping bags across the sidewalk, brought in Chinese food from the Hong Kong restaurant, cases of Budweiser and settled down for the night...
Gilad Y Ohana '85, the Crimson's associate photography chairman, was arrested Saturday night while covering a demonstration outside the club. It is alleged that Ohana stepped off the Mt Auburn St. sidewalk to shoot a picture from the bottom of the club's front step...