Housing Takeover in San Francisco, Part 2
(Posted April 6, 2010)
On Monday Homes Not Jails' occupation of a vacant Mission District house in San Francisco continued. And then the SFPD came battering at the door.

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Michael Steinberg

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Romantic, Connecticut

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What happens when the mill leaves the milltown? How do people go on with their lives and find hope for the future after the reason for the town's existence vacates the premises? In this story we learn all this and so much more through the tales of Scamp and Sal, who both end of in Romantic, Connecticut.

Scamp, who might or might not be the "developmentally degraded" reincarnation of Woody Guthrie, lives to provide the Product and follow the Protocol as laid down in the Wisdom of Big Guy, and to admire the myriad Mysteries of Boss Lady.

Sal's back from decades of playing fifth rate guitar in a sixth rate strip club Way Down Yonder to hang out with Pop and share blaring visions of Channel 44, where it's always "All War, All the Time."

Two brothers hellbent on separate paths, heading for certain disaster on the streets of what could only be Romantic, Connecticut.

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