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La Brocalou le Titoustock โ€“ French Antique Store

UPDATE: As of September 2021, the owner has closed this store for good. โ€œJe nโ€™en ai pas besoin, maisโ€ฆโ€ Those are words I constantly tell myself when Iโ€™m at a flea market or brocante (antique or secondhand shop) and come across something that I like (or want). Piles of gorgeous French linens, mortars without (or without) pestles, French jam jars, and no longer loved cafรฉโ€ฆ

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The Toronto Cocktail

I was part of a whole generation of San Franciscans that were terrorized by Bruno, a cantankerous, older Persian man who had a bar in the Haight called Persian Aub Zam Zam. Iโ€™ve probably mentioned him before, but I recently went down that rabbit hole of the Internet where I found a few stories about him via a search for something else. Thenโ€ฆwell, we allโ€ฆ

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Ever have data loss? I ran Disk Doctor once, thinking Iโ€™d be cleaning up my goofy hard drive. Well, it works..and โ€“ poof! โ€“ everything on my computer disappeared, never to be seen again. Sign up for Crashplan and back up your data off your computer. (Thanks Michael!) Speaking of which โ€“ you might want to back up your Flickr or Facebook accounts? Backify willโ€ฆ

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