Shamonica Magazine

England loves their wizardry, especially when its on the bus. I wish I was there to shake the man’s hand who did this :   Did you know about Wizard Wednesday in Manchester? After a serious facebook campaign with over 11,000 votes the drivers of the Magic Buses in Manchester, England have donned wizard garb [...]

A few weeks ago I was shooting a machine gun and swimming in the South China Sea (not at the same time, I’m not John Rambo). But today I am blogging and complaining about my dry cleaner. A lot has changed within a month’s time. How I got there It’s true; I was in Vietnam [...]

Buying a computer is super easy! You just browse through the Apple Store website and click on a few buttons and put in your credit card info, right? Well its easy to buy a computer but not always clear what  you are getting for the money you spend. There are Mac people, PC people, and [...]

Call it artistic appreciation or some misplaced side effect of what I like to call my “late stage penis envy” but I cannot stop taking pictures of these cigar man signs all over downtown San Francisco. I am so charmed by them. My friends, sometime a cigar IS only a cigar, but then, sometimes, cigars are people.

If you’re up to date on the policy proposals being suggested by the new crop of GOP hopefuls, I’m sure that, like me,  you’ve noticed that things have veered from the usual soapbox diatribes about Family Values into the downright surreal. So, if I’ve got this right, women shouldn’t take birth control because it leads [...]

Joseph Childress is a local folk musician who has played with folk/rock favorites  Devendra Banhart, Joanna Newsom, Vetiver and has toured with the Love Letter Band (Bad Weather California), Mariee Sioux, Messes, and Randazzo Robinson. What sets Childress apart is that his songs and lyrics have emotional honesty which cuts through much of the whimsical [...]