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It’s by Ramona Emerson, one of the best writers of all time:

The weird thing about working all day everyday is that you’re going to die. and when you die you’re dead forever. Like who is the person who said, “I know. Five days will be for work and two days will be for brunch and everything else good.” That person must have hated people. And the thing is we just go along with it like there’s some kind of biological imperative to work five days a week. Like evolutionary psychology could be made to explain it just like it is made to explain everything that no one wants to deal with. You’re 28 and salad is the best part of your day. 

People have such weird ideas about work. If you told your mom you hated your boyfriend and he made you want to die, she would be like, “Break up with him!” But if you told your mom that you hated your job and it made you want to die, she’d be all, “Maybe you need to adjust your expectations.”

Offices are so strange. It’s so hard to know what’s going on in them. Are other people  working? It’s impossible to say since for a lot of people working has become indistinguishable from fucking around on the internet.

Read on for lots more, including bathroom sex fantasies and spinach and goat cheese salad.

[via Corntard, the Man]

This photo was tweeted to Willie Brown, CalTrans, Conan O’Brien and this blog. #goodcompany

(Thanks, Joanna!)

Whatever u say, Giabbit

[via Matt, who is abroad at the moment]

It’s Debaser’s 7-year anniversary! Can you believe it? It’s 2015 now, the ’90s are just finally far enough away that you could start folding some of those hits into Oldies Night (tonight at the Knockout), and yet Debaser has been going strong for seven tenths of a decade! Congrats, boys!

Still only $5. (Dig those crazy ’08 prices!) Or free with a flannel before 11, as always.

RSVP and invite your friends.

It may be April Fool’s Day, but I’m pretty sure they’re actually doing it. A gourmet ode to the Taco Bell Sriracha Quesarito they enjoyed so much last week.

It’s also got Sriracha rice and a real Las Palmas tortilla. And as always, they deliver via Postmates.

First, for happy hour, there’s Eighty-Five Song Happy Hour:

And later on, Lil’ Raps Night:

What the heck?

Wild Food Week kicks off this Saturday with a foraging walk in the Berkeley Hills, and continues with special dinners at a number of celebrated area restaurants (including a Mission Chinese Food/The Perennial event on April 8th).

Here’s a note from Anthony and Karen of the Mission Chinese Food family:

This is not purely Mission-related news, but we wanted to let you know about a “Wild Food Week” we’re organizing with three Berkeley professors (Philip Stark, Kristen Rasmussen and Tom Carlson), who run a group called Berkeley Open Source Food. The idea is to reclaim edible plants currently going to waste (often literally right in our own back yards). By some estimates, up to 40% of edible plants on farms are classified as weeds and are watered, fertilized, harvested, and then not eaten. With a little more exposure and education, these wild edibles could be integrated into the food system, with all sorts of benefits, including free nutritious produce in food deserts. Berkeley Open Source Food is showcasing wild foods with a series of events from a guided foragers’ walk to dinners at César, Chez Panisse, Mission Chinese Food, and Mission: Heirloom (details below). We are working with  Capay Valley Farms, F.E.E.D. Sonoma, Good Eggs, Green String Farm, The Living Wild Project, and Say Hay Farms. and will debut a foraging field guide called The Bay Area’s Baker’s Dozen Wild Greens.

Complete list of Wild Food Week events, with ticketing info, after the jump:

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Neighbor @friscolex wants to know.

UPDATE:

@friscolex @missionmission it, along with the mural on 21st were tagged on Halloween 2013. Since then it's been green paint, tag, repeat.

— Neil Slotterback (@nslotterback) April 2, 2015