Herb Caen
Herb Caen
Herbert Eugene "Herb" Caenwas a San Francisco journalist whose daily column of local goings-on and insider gossip, social and political happenings, painful puns and offbeat anecdotes—"a continuous love letter to San Francisco"—appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle for almost sixty yearsand made him a household name throughout the San Francisco Bay Area...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth3 April 1916
CountryUnited States of America
The only way to fight a thing like 50 is to stay au courant if it kills you.
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One day if I do go to heaven...I'll look around and say, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.'
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One day if I do go to heaven... I'll look around and say, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.'
clash eternal opinions produce state
A city is a state - of mind, of taste, of opportunity. A city is a marketplace - where ideas are traded, opinions clash and eternal conflict may produce eternal truths.
heaven may location
The precise location of heaven on earth has never been established but it may very well be right here
self tactics satire
Satire of satire tends to be self-canceling, and deliberate shock tactics soon lose their ability to shock, especially when they're too deliberate.
memories elephants remember
I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met.
broads given uncomplicated
Americans are pragmatic, relatively uncomplicated, hearty and given to broad humor.
cake would-be towers
The waterfront without the Ferry Tower would be like a birthday cake without a candle.
stuck gloomy mutual
New Yorkers are stuck in a gloomy mucilage of mutual commiseration.
crazy odds concrete-jungle
A city is a crazy concrete jungle whose people at the end of each day somehow make a small step ahead against terrible odds.
self satisfaction smugness
San Franciscans have a bond of self-satisfaction bordering on smugness.
dollar-bills dollars rams
You cover Q-tips with sandpaper and ram them up your nostrils as far as they will go. Then you sniff talcum powder while shredding hundred dollar bills.
world may world-famous
When a place advertises itself as 'World Famous,' you may be sure it isn't.