Tag Archives: Herb Caen

The Norwegian Russian Death Spiral From Hialeah

Thursday, 10 December 2009 – 21:19 EST

I'll start of with this article that Erin sent me, and a special thanks to her for thinking of me. I especially liked it because not only does it bemoan the fall of the printed newspaper, it mentions Herb Caen and San Francisco quite a bit. As someone who still reads the paper every single [...]

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Post 600: Nostalgia and Herb Caen

Saturday, 21 March 2009 – 15:12 EDT

I was feeling nostalgic today. Not because this is the 600th post — that's a coincidence, but because I was thinking about my favourite columnist of all time: Herb Caen. Mister Caen is famous because without him you'd not have the word beatnik which he coined in 1958, or the word hippie which he popularized [...]

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