Email Author M.J.F. Stewart

2003 Stories by M.J.F. Stewart

• Checked Out

  published December 24, 2003

  For Dog Bites, the holiday season means another string of cheap dates with frozen pizza, a carton of spiked eggnog, and the TV set. Since we'd... More >>

• King of Beer

  published November 12, 2003

  As the Iraq War got under way in March, Dog Bites shuddered at the realization that if those slippery WMDs ever reached San Francisco, our dearth... More >>

• A Fine Mess

  published October 22, 2003

  At 11:38 on the morning of July 25, Blake Manning, a 23-year-old 7-Eleven clerk, awoke to what sounded like a rushing waterfall in the Presidio... More >>

• You preach/We laugh

  published October 22, 2003

  If you've ridden the bus in San Francisco in the past couple of months, you've probably noticed Muni's new "You see/We see" ad campaign. The ads... More >>

• Bean Scene

  published September 3, 2003

  With Halloween still weeks away and Easter just a scrumptious memory of melting chocolate bunnies, we needed a sugar fix to get through these... More >>

• A River Doesn't Run Through It

  published August 13, 2003

  "If Reagan hadn't let all those crazy people out," quips Ricardo Nuñez, "our membership would be half of what it is today." Nuñez... More >>

• The Freeloaders' Handbook

  published June 11, 2003

  We drove our beat-up Mazda to the Oakland Coliseum on a recent evening with just a stick of gum and bridge money in our pocket. Four hours later,... More >>