The Kickstarter from Last Gasp books—the publisher of strange and delightful comic books—has got to be one of the better Kickstarter videos I’ve watched. It tells you that their books must make the world less boring.
Also, Last Gasp is a neighbor and has been at 777 Florida St. for decades.
Quick, donate now. They only have seven days left on the campaign and they have raised $33,000 of a $75,000 goal.
I’ve been a Mission resident since 1998 and a professor emeritus at Berkeley’s J-school since 2019. I got my start in newspapers at the Albuquerque Tribune in the city where I was born and raised. Like many local news outlets, The Tribune no longer exists. I left daily newspapers after working at The New York Times for the business, foreign and city desks. Lucky for all of us, it is still here.
As an old friend once pointed out, local has long been in my bones. My Master’s Project at Columbia, later published in New York Magazine, was on New York City’s experiment in community boards.
As founder and an editor at ML, I've been trying to figure out how to make my interest in local news sustainable. If Mission Local is a model, the answer might be that you - the readers - reward steady and smart content. As a thank you for that support we work every day to make our content even better.
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If anyone is tedious, it is you and your non stop criticism. YOu must be a very unhappy man.
When did it become collective wisdom that weirdness = interesting?
Most strange people are just tedious, if they are not hazardous.
Really, San Francisco needs to grow up,