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What if one of your random wishes was suddenly granted? What if you gained the power to grant other people's wishes? How would it change your life?
WARNING! All of my writing is intended for adults over the age of 18 ONLY. Stories may contain strong or even extreme sexual content. All people and events depicted are fictional and any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental. Actions, situations, and responses are fictional ONLY and should not be attempted in real life.

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It all started at the end of a very, very bad day at work. The day began with a special staff meeting where my immediate boss publicly blamed me for all of his recent screw-ups. It got worse from there.

I was tempted to go home at noon after a sudden power outage revealed that the battery backup to the computer at my desk was not properly installed and I lost my entire morning's work to corrupted files. Yes, I was saving regularly. I was saving everything when the power went out. That's what screwed up the files.

Just after two o'clock I was even more tempted to tell them to take this job and shove it when my asshole supervisor informed me, loudly enough for the whole office to hear, that since I didn't seem to be able to get the work done in a timely fashion, he was recommending that I undergo a special "performance review" at the end of the month.

I almost made it to five o'clock, but just after four-thirty, the entire computer system for the office crashed for the third time. I yelled, "The hell with it," and cleared off my desk. Company policy requires that we leave a clean desk at the end of the day, so I pushed everything into a pile which I then dropped it into the lower drawer of my file cabinet. A few moments later I had slipped out a side door, gone down the stairs to street level, and was coming in the front door of Mickey's Pub.

Mickey Finn's Public House is a quaint little bar tucked in between the high rise office towers that form the city skyline. It probably would have been absorbed by the developers years ago except this area of the city has an "open air conduit" ordinance that says there has to be so many hundreds of feet of clearance between buildings over three stories tall. The result is that there are vast open areas between the modern tall towers. In those open areas, along with several parks, stand smaller, older buildings that house bars, boutiques, and other businesses.

Mickey's Pub is probably the oldest of those buildings, and its interior is even older. The current owner - who is actually an Italian by the name of Walter Damato - claims that the bar and many of the booths were originally part of a public house in Derry, over in Ireland. That may or may not be true, but the long, wooden bar itself is old and massive and made of stout timbers that have grown dark under many coats of laquer, varnish, polish, and spilled beer.

Most nights I would stop by Mickey's after work to relax and enjoy a glass of my favorite dark ale, which Walt conveniently kept on tap. Tonight, however, I was stopping by not to relax, but because I needed at least two - or maybe three drinks to forget what had to have been a new, all-time, "day from hell" at work. The only problem was that when I got to Mickey's the place was packed - not just full, totally packed.. There was no space at the bar, and no booths were open... except for Crazy Jack's spot.

Crazy Jack had been a fixture at Mickey Finn's for as long as most of us could remember. Every afternoon at three o'clock, Jack would come walking in the front door and go directly to "his" booth where he would stay until closing. During that time he would order four or five or even six rounds of drinks for himself and "his friend."

Jack would sit there all night sipping his beer and talking to the empty seat across from him. When he finished his beer, he would evidently switch glasses with his invisible friend, because both glasses were always empty when Jack called for another round. Above the booth was a big sign that said "Reserved for Crazy Jack Thompson and Friend." No one else was ever allowed to sit there. I normally wouldn't have even thought about trying it, but Crazy Jack passed away last week - most likely from the toll that years of heavy drinking had taken on his body. He wasn't going to be using his booth tonight, so I did.

The place got suddenly quiet and everyone turned to look at me as I slid into the booth, but when I yelled over to Walt at the bar, "Brink me a dark ale, please," he merely filled two glasses and carried them over to where I was sitting.

"I only ordered one... for now," I said as he brought the tray.

He replied, "If you sit in Jack's booth, you always get a double order." Then he laughed a deep, rumbling laugh and added, "Trust me, you'll need it."

I reached for my drink, but almost dropped it halfway to my mouth. The other glass sitting on the table was now almost one-fourth empty. "What the hell?" I said aloud as I looked around. I took a deep draw on my ale. When I set my glass back down, I could see that the other glass was now half empty.

"I wish to hell I knew what was going on," I muttered to myself.

A soft voice said, "Wish granted," and suddenly there was another person sitting in the booth across from me. Maybe "person" isn't quite the correct word. He was human shaped, about my size, with black hair and a closely trimmed black mustache which blended into a goatee. He was very strangely dressed in a bright blue vest over his naked chest and very loose, deep purple pantaloon pants. What was really unusual about him, however, was that he was vaguely green in color and more or less transparent.

He put his hands around the glass in front of him and said, "Not quite as good as ancient Sumerian beer, but dark ale is much better than that pale piss that Jack liked."

"Jack could see you?" I asked, dribbling ale on the table as I spoke.

"Of course," he replied with a laugh. "Crazy people often see what sane people refuse to see." He smiled at me and continued, "Jack liked having someone to talk to, and I liked having a regular source of beer." He shrugged, "It was good while it lasted."

"Who... what are you?" I sputtered. "And why are you here?"

"My name is Julan." he replied. "I am a Jinn. I think your culture calls me a 'Genie,' but the proper term is Jinn."

"You mean like a Genie in a bottle kind of Genie? ... a rub the bottle and get three wishes kind of Genie?"

"Actually you mean a lamp, not a bottle, but that isn't exactly true either. That myth came about because Jinn's supposedly appeared in the smoke of certain lamps. Even if they did, the Jinn wasn't inside the lamp, and rubbing the lamp wasn't the important thing. Rubbing was just to clean the metal because you needed something really shiny so that you could look back into your own eyes. Looking deeply inside yourself is what enabled you to see the Jinn if it was present."

"So why are you here?" I asked.

As I spoke, I noticed that people were starting to stare at me. I had seen that look before when new people at the bar first experienced Crazy Jack. I was debating between telling them all to go to hell or paying my tab and leaving when Julan began to answer my question. "I made the mistake of getting caught exchanging vapors with a Marid Jinn's wife - the chief of the Marid's no less."

He laughed in an empty sort of way. "The Marid were the most powerful of the Jinn and he was the most powerful of the Marid. He was really pissed when he found me and Fazeel fused together above the pool at the oasis. I thought he was going to tear us both into wisps of smoke, but instead he plunged his arm deep into the earth and drew out a lump of copper. He heated it in his hand until it glowed red and then he spoke the words that bound me to that lump of metal for all eternity."

When I looked perplexed, he explained, "That was a Marid's way of punishing another Jinn. They would bind you to metal for as long as that metal existed and then put it somewhere really nasty. There might have been a Jinn or two bound to the metal of a lamp, or perhaps the metal they were bound to was used to make a lamp... who knows where myths like that come from."

"Anyway, Fazeel and I were just untangling ourselves when Gazoom threw that glowing lump of metal far out over the sea, and even beyond the sea, into the great waters beyond. I think he intended it to sink forever into the depths of the great waters. Luckily for me, it landed instead on an island where it stayed until some miners picked it up and blended it with some other metals and made that." He pointed to the brass foot rail along the front of the bar. "That's the metal I am bound to, and so, I am here as long as that metal exists."

"What do you mean 'exchanging vapors'?"

"Well it's not like we have bodily fluids to exchange," He said with a laugh. "And little Jinns have to come from somewhere. Jinn sex is a total mixing of our bodies. You are actually both totally inside each other. I've tried it a couple of times with human females. They sort of know I'm there, but nothing much really happens for either of us. I've been so long without fusing that I think I could screw the smoke from the fire in the steak brazier."

He turned a slightly deeper shade of green. "I got desperate enough once to actually try something like that." He grimaced. "I wouldn't recommend it."

"So you are trapped here for all eternity?" I asked.

"I doubt Mickey's will last for all eternity, but I am trapped wherever that metal is for as long as that metal exists, which seems like about half an eternity so far."

He reached his hand more or less through the glass of dark ale in front of him. The area around the glass shimmered slightly and more of the rich, dark brew disappeared. "On the other hand, he said with a shrug. "Since I was far away from my home and was bound to a lump of metal, I wasn't there when the great plague wiped out my race."

"I thought Genies were all powerful."

"There is always something bigger and more powerful out there that can get you. Or, in our case, something smaller. I don't know if it was a disease or a curse that got out of hand, but one day the Jinns started... evaporating. Like a morning mist clearing off in the morning sun, even the most powerful of the Jinns slowly faded away... except for the few of us who were in exile bound to lumps of metal. Its kind of ironic that our punishment protected us."

"So, are you the last of your kind?" I asked.

"Not exactly the last, but there aren't many of us left."

"And you can grant three wishes?"

Julan shimmered himself another large gulp of ale and shrugged. "Yes and no. This wish thing is a little more complicated than that. If someone makes a wish in my presence, I can grant it or reject it. There is no limit on the number of wishes. But the person making the wish can't actually ask me for something and whatever the wish is has to come from that person. Someone else, especially me, can't put them up to it."

"So if I wish for something now you can't grant it?"

"Nope. Sounds stupid, but I didn't make the rules of the cosmos."

"And you can't ask someone to wish that you were free?"

"Nope. The rules don't allow for it." He drained the glass and then looked me in the eyes, "Kinda sucks, doesn't it?"

I sipped my ale and sighed. "And I thought I had a really bad day at work. At least it was only one day. I wish there were a way to get you unbound or whatever so that you could be free."

"WISH GRANTED!!!!" he yelled, bouncing up and down in his seat as he repeated again, "WISH DEFINITELY GRANTED!!!!"

I looked around to see the reaction of the rest of the people in the bar, but then realized that I was the only one who could see or hear him.

His smile nearly split his face in two. "You said the magic words. I didn't ask you to, and you didn't intend it to be a wish you asked of me. Your wish is granted. Because you wished it, there IS a way to free me... if you are willing."

"What would I have to do?" I asked.

Julan coughed lightly and pointed at his empty glass. "I'd order a round if I could, but you are the only one who can see me."

"I wish I had an unlimited tab," I said hopefully.

"Nope. That one doesn't fit the rules. Can't grant it. Sorry."

"It was worth a try," I replied and then yelled over to the bar, "Two more, please."

When Walt brought them over he said with a smile, "I see you have met Jack's friend, whoever or whatever he is. The previous owner labeled this booth 'The Haunted Booth.' Anyone who sat here said they got strange feelings and their drinks kept disappearing. Some of the women said that they felt a little like something was trying to put the make on them, but no one could explain what was happening. Then Jack started talking to "his friend" and I changed the sign. Jack's gone. Should I put your name on the sign?"

"Not yet," I answered, "but the night is young."

After Walt went back to the bar, I turned back to Julan and asked, "So, what's the deal?"

"It is really simple. Believe me, I have had a LOT of time to think about this. All you have to do is be willing to take over my wish granting powers. I retain all of my other powers, but having changed status I am a different Jinn, so Gazoom's curse is broken and I will no longer be bound to the metal in the bar rail. It's a win-win situation. I'll be free, and you get to grant wishes to people around you."

"But do I end up bound to the brass rail like you were? There has to be a down side to this."

"No, it doesn't work that way... I'm certain it doesn't.... OK, I'm pretty sure it doesn't. But just in case there is something that we aren't thinking of, we can do a trial run for say... a week. You take over my wish granting powers for seven days. If it works out, we make it permanent. If it doesn't, we investigate other options. What have you got to lose?"

"My sanity, for one thing," I replied. "But I think I have already lost most of that." Glancing down at my watch I yelped, "And my girlfriend if I don't get home soon."

I paid my tab and ran down the block to the Metro station. A twenty minute ride and a short walk took me to my apartment. I was desperately trying to think of what I would tell Sandy when I opened the door to find that the apartment was still empty. She was running later than I was.

Sandy and I have been living together for about three years. She is a lawyer and has a much, much better job than me, but because of being in a supervisory position, she often has to work late with little notice. I checked the answering machine and found her message saying she would be late and asking me to start something for supper. A second message, in which she sounded very frustrated and upset, indicated that she was going to have to redo an important document that was needed for tomorrow and would be at least another half-hour. I was still checking what was on the shelves in the pantry when she came through the front door.

From her appearance, her day had been at least as bad as mine. "I am so tired of being responsible for others," she said as she set her briefcase on the table by the door. Then she added, "Especially idiots who can't remember simple instructions or get the wording right on simple, but important, documents."

She turned to face me and continued, "Growing up, I always dreamed of being master of my own life." After a deep sigh, she added, "Now, I am. But making decisions for others and telling others exactly what to do all day, day after day, is destroying me. Every day I have to be responsible for others and tell them everything they are supposed to do. I never get a chance to get away from it. I wish I could give someone else total responsibility for my life when I am away from work. I wish I had a master to tell me exactly what to do so that all I had to do was to follow their orders."

"Wishes granted," I said softly.

"Strip," I said loudly and forcefully.

"What?" she answered with a look of surprise.

"You said you wished you had a master when you were away from the office. Your master would like you naked when you are at home."

Sandy looked slightly confused, but began unbuttoning her blouse.

"Set your clothing with your briefcase." I commanded. She did so.

"Fix us something to eat. Whatever you think I would enjoy will be fine. You may wear an apron if you are cooking something on the stove, but nothing else."

She looked at me with a bright smile. I hadn't seen her smile like that in a long time. "Yes Master," she replied and walked into the kitchen. I watched her pert ass cheeks bob up and down as she walked away from me.

Dinner was uneventful except that Sandy remained naked at the table. After dinner she said, "Why don't you relax in front of the TV while I clean up the kitchen?" I silently nodded my head. Actually, I was speechless. Normally her comment after eating was something like, "I fixed it. You clean it up."

I went into the living room and turned the TV to a crime drama that I usually had to TIVO and watch later on my own. After a while, Sandy came into the room, still naked, and got down on the floor against my legs in that almost kneeling way in which a woman sits more or less on her own legs. She snuggled her head against my upper thighs and remained their silently for the rest of the show.

"What would you like to watch?" I asked.

"Whatever pleases you, Master," was her reply.

I was tempted to switch over to ESPN, but I know that she really hates to watch obscure sports events with me, so instead I flipped the channel to a game show that we both enjoy. She smiled and said "mmmmm" as she snuggled more tightly against me. Evidently she knew that I was giving this to her as my gift.

We silently watched TV together until the game show was over and then I suggested, "Why don't we just go to bed early tonight?"

Sandy answered, "Yes, Master," and walked back into the bedroom. I again watched her ass cheeks bob up and down as she walked. I think I could watch her walk for hours, her ass is so perfect and inviting.

While I was taking off my clothes for bed, Sandy stood in front of the mirror studying her body and lifting her boobs with her hands as if checking how much they sagged. "I wish I had the body I had when I was 25... and could keep it forever."

I almost said "Wish granted," but decided to check to see if I could influence a wish at all and still grant it. "Be careful what you wish for," I said in a very serious tone. "I can see you now as a senile old woman in a nursing home with a smoking hot body."

"OK," she replied with a laugh. "I wish I had the body AND mind I had when I was 25 and could keep it forever."

"Great," I said, trying to sound upset and amused at the same time. "Now I will be a senile old codger in the nursing home with a smoking hot wife visiting me."

"All right. I wish that both you AND I had the bodies and minds we had when we were 25 and could keep them forever."

"Wish granted," I said softly.

Sandy jumped slightly as though someone had pinched her. "That's weird," she said. My breasts and butt suddenly felt funny, like they were tightening up. And now it looks like my nipples are pointing up. They haven't done that in years." She cupped her hands under her breasts, lifted slightly and let go. Bewilderment showed in her face.

"Maybe your tits get all perky when you get turned on," I suggested. Then I added, "Why don't you come to bed and see how perky I can make them?"

She was smiling as she crawled up the bed to kiss me. "How may I please my Master tonight?" she asked. She was beautiful, and it wasn't just that she had suddenly lost ten years. Happiness and contentment shone in her face.

"If you are willing, your master would like to try to go around the world tonight." I wasn't sure how far this Master thing would actually go, and I loved her, so I didn't want to do something she really didn't want to do. I intentionally phrased my command so that it gave her the choice."

"I was also a little afraid that my mind might be writing a check that my body couldn't cash. It had been a long time since I was been able to perform three times in a row. But if my body was reset to 25, maybe my sexual stamina was also.

"Why don't we start in France?" I said with a smile.

Sandy hugged me very tightly, pressing her newly rejuvenated boobs into my chest. She then gave me a wet, open-mouth kiss and began to trail kisses down my throat and chest and abdomen until she reached my groin.

She said, "Just lay back and enjoy this."

I did.

Sandy had never really liked to give head, but on those rare occasions when she was willing, she was an excellent cocksucker. Tonight she was at her best. As she bobbed up and down on my prick, for some reason a line from an old Arnold Schwartzenager movie popped into my head, "She could suck start a Harley." As I erupted into her mouth, I could almost hear the roar of motorcycles.

She didn't spit anything out, but after swallowing slid off the bed and said, "Just a moment." She walked into the bathroom, and I heard her rinsing out her mouth. Less than a minute later she returned to the bed smelling of mouthwash and carrying a tube of KY.

She handed it to me with a smile and said, "If we are going to Greece next, you have to prepare the way." She then turned around so that she was facing away from me and straddled my chest with her knees. She lowered her head so that her face was almost resting on my ankles. Then she reached her arms above her head so that her hands were hanging off the end of the bed and her breasts were tight against my thighs. She wiggled her ass at me and said, "Make me slick and make me wet and I will take you through every island in Greece."

I could feel my prick beginning to become hard again as I squirted some of the lube between her ass cheeks and began massaging it in. As soon as the lube hit her skin, she began moaning. I pushed one finger slowly into her rosebud and her moaning got slightly higher pitched. When I reached up with the other hand and began to massage her clit, both the pitch and the volume increased significantly. By the time I had loosened her up enough for three fingers to slide easily up the Hershey Highway, she was wailing continuously.

"Now! Now!" she suddenly yelled and pulled forward off my hand. She raised herself up so that her upper body was totally vertical, and with a sudden downward thrust, impaled herself on my rigid cock. She bounced up and down for several minutes clenching her anus at the top and bottom of each stroke until I erupted inside of her. She continued for another minute or so and then slowed and finally stopped.

As she sat there astride me, she pressed her hands against her breasts and wiggled her ass from side to side against my lower abdomen, moaning softly all the while. When I finally began to soften, she lifted up so that I popped out and turned to lay flat on top of me. She smiled a crooked smile and looked me directly and deeply in the eyes. "Let's get you hard again and then you can fuck me silly."

I was starting to wonder whether or not I had a third one in me on such short notice, but her hands and lips soon had me hard again. She rolled us over so that I was now on top. "Fuck my brains out," she moaned. "Long, fast, and hard like you have always wanted to do."

I'm not sure how long I lasted, but I know that I was definitely fast and hard. We climaxed together and lay sweaty and spent in each other's arms.

After a few minutes I got up to go pee. When I got back Sandy was laying siting up against the pillows on her side of the bed. As I slid into bed I commented, "Might as well watch the news and call it a night. We both have to get up to go to work tomorrow."

"Both of our jobs seem to have gotten to the point where they really suck," she said. "I wish you were rich enough that neither of us would ever have to work unless we really wanted to."

"Wish granted," I replied.

"Why do you keep saying that?"

"Saying what?"

"Wish granted. You've said it several times tonight. What is going on?"

"It's a little hard to explain," I replied.

I needed a little time to think, so I punched on the TV and said, "How 'bout if we watch the news while I figure out how to put this so you might possibly understand?"

She gave me one of those looks that only a woman can give and crossed her arms in front of herself as if to emphasize that she really didn't like my response.

"News in just a moment," intoned the talking head on the television. "But first the lottery numbers for tonight." After the typical opening, an overly-smiling young woman came on to announce the numbers as they rolled out down their plexiglass tubes. "Our first number is eleven," she chirped. "Next is twenty-one. Followed by Thirty-one. We seem to have a pattern going. Yes, next is forty-one. Will the final ball keep to the pattern? Amazing, the final number is fifty-one." She paused to tell us about someone who had won a million dollars the previous week by getting all the white balls correct, and then she continued, "And our Big Ball number is....... number one!" She flashed an especially big smile at the camera and finished with, "If you picked all ones tonight you are four hundred and seventy-five million dollars richer. The number are '11, 21, 31, 41, 51' and the Big Ball number is '01'."

Sandy screeched, "Those are your numbers." She was bouncing up and down on the bed. "You always pick all ones. Did you buy a ticket this week? Tell me you have a ticket!"

I was sure I had a ticket, but I scrambled over to my pants and pulled out my billfold to just make sure. It was a multi-week ticket and was still good. I had won the lottery!

"Wait a minute!" yelled Sandy. "You said wish granted when I wished that you were rich."

"And when you wished for the body and mind of a 25 year-old," I answered.

"And when I wished that I could be your slave," she replied, her face suddenly becoming very thoughtful.

"Does that mean you wish you weren't?" I asked.

"No, not really. I feel so free from everything else by being bound to you. But tell me, 'Master,' what in the hell is going on?"

"Mickey's is open until two," I answered. "You won't believe me unless we go down there, so get dressed."

She looked at me with a look of total confusion and asked, "Mickey's?"

"It will make sense when we get there," I replied.

As we walked to the Metro station, Sandy asked me repeatedly, "What does Mickey's Pub have to do with all this?"

My only answer was, "I'll explain when we get there."

Luckily a train had just stopped at the station as we arrived and we were able board immediately. With other people around us, Sandy stopped her questions and rode silently beside me for the twenty minutes it took to get back downtown. Mickey's was still full, but not packed, when we got there. Jack's booth was empty, as expected. I slid into the booth and motioned for Sandy to sit beside me.

"It's easier to talk to you when I am facing you," she said and started to slide in on the other side where Julan was sitting with a rather surprised expression on his face.

"That side's taken," I said quickly and pulled her in beside me. "Two dark ales and a white wine," I yelled over to the bar.

"What do you mean taken?" asked Sandy. "And who is the second ale for?"

"Julan," I answered. "He's sitting on the other bench of the booth."

"There's no one there! Have you gone nuts? This is Crazy Jack's booth! Are you the new Crazy Jack? Is that what is going on? You have gone nuts, haven't you? I wish I knew what happened to you today."

"Wish granted," I said softly and suddenly Sandy gasped and stared wide-eyed at the other side of the bench.

"She can see me now," said Julan. He looked around at the crowd in the bar. "I think you had better explain things before she starts screaming."

"Sandy," I began, "this is Julan. Julan, this is Sandy. Julan is a Jinn who was bound to a piece of metal that got mixed in with the brass that was used to make the foot rail for this bar. He's extremely old and hasn't had sex since the Jinn race was annihilated thousands of years ago. He likes beer and liked to sit and talk to Jack who could see him because he was crazy. I can see him because I wished I knew who was drinking my ale and then I wished that there was a way for him to be unbound from the metal and he transferred his wish granting powers to me so that he could be free. Now he is free and I can grant wishes and that's is why you are my slave and I am rich and we will both stay young and live forever.

I stopped taking at that point because I had run out of breath. I took a deep breath, turned to look at Sandy, and asked, "Did any of that make any sense at all to you?"

"He hasn't had sex for thousands of years?" is all she answered. She looked over at Julan and said, "Poor man. I wish there was some way we could get you laid."

Julan's eyes were wide open. His mouth was gaping. He was pointing at her and mouthing, "Say it. Say it. Say it."

"Wish granted," I said, looking back and forth between Sandy and Julan.

"What do you mean, 'Wish granted.'" she snapped. Her voice was somewhere between question and anger.

"Well," I began. "If I understand this right, you wished that Julan could get laid. The problem is that Jinn sex is vapor sex where they totally mix their bodies together and exchange bodily vapors. Human sex just exchanges bodily fluids. You wished he could get laid and I granted that wish. I think that means that now Julan will be able to exchange bodily vapors with a human female."

"Exchange vapors? What would that be like? I mean, for the woman, what would exchanging vapors with a Jinn be like?"

"Would you like to find out?" asked Julan with a very hopeful look on his face.

"Would it be dangerous?" asked Sandy.

"Only if you can die from pleasure," answered Julan.

Sandy replied. "I've already done more tonight than I thought I would ever do, So what the hell. Let's exchange some vapors." Then she looked timidly over at me and continued, "If that's OK with you, Master." "Go for it," I answered emphatically. I'm not sure I meant it as strongly as I said it, but it wasn't like he was a next door neighbor or someone at work. I mean, he wasn't even human so it wasn't real sex... was it?

Julan seemed to shimmer slightly and drifted through the table over to where Sandy was sitting. For a moment I could see his shape totally enveloping her. After a few moments, she began moaning and thrashing and yelling, "Oh my God! Oh my God! Oh my God!'

Every eye in the place was staring directly at this strange woman sitting in Crazy Jack's booth obviously having the greatest orgasm of her life. Several minutes later, Julan shimmered his way back to his side of the booth and sat there with a smug smile on his face. Walt, the owner, came over and asked, "Is everything all right here?"

Sandy looked at him with a very crooked smile on her face and answered, "Everything's fine, Walt. Everything is just fine."

As he started to walk away I called him back and asked, "Walt, did you watch the news tonight?"

"Never change the channel on the TV above the bar," he answered.

"What lottery numbers do I always buy?" I asked.

"Holy shit!" he exclaimed. "You're rich! And you bought that ticket here. Double holy shit! My bonus on that could be a couple hundred thousand."

"That's right," I answered. "And I have a business proposition for you."

Walt and I worked out the details that night with Sandy's help and a couple of suggestions from Julan. I am now a "silent partner" in Mickey's Pub with a provision in the contract that I have exclusive and perpetual ownership of the brass foot rail on the bar. The lawyers that drew up the final contract kept asking what purpose that clause could possibly have, and I kept answering, "It has extreme sentimental value."

Actually Julan was afraid that if the metal was melted down and changed in form, the binding curse might be renewed. So, this guaranteed that if that brass rail ever left the bar it was going to be buried intact in the deepest part of the ocean.

Sandy set up some special trusts with the lottery money so that we can continue to draw from it for as long as we live, which, if things work out will be a long, long, long time. She also set things up so that we could easily relocate every ten years or so before people started to notice that we don't really age.

It has been five years now. The booth at Mickey's has it's old sign over it once again that says, "The Haunted Booth." Beneath that sign is another that explains that any beer, especially dark ale, left on the table will slowly disappear. It also warns that ladies who dare to sit in the booth might be subject to "Ghostly Induced Orgasm." Every night the customers at Mickey's chip in to put a fresh glass on the table whenever it empties, and almost every night there is at least one woman or another who wants to see if the sign is true.

For some reason, Julan decided that he was going to stay at Mickey's for the foreseeable future. "I get all the free beer and free sex that I can handle," he says. "Why should I leave? Where would I go?"

The TV program "Hoax Busters" came to film at the bar one night. They had hired a couple of famous magicians who were going to show how Walt supposedly used trick glasses to make the beer seem to disappear. And they had several well-known psychiatric experts lined up to explain that the "orgasms" were just suggestion-induced hysteria. It would have been an excellent episode thoroughly debunking Mickey's "Haunted Booth" except for one minor problem. The show's host decided to do the opening while sitting on the bench in Julan's side of the booth. She had barely gotten through the name of the show and into her own introduction when Julan made his move.

That particular episode never aired, but there are several different YouTube cell phone videos of her suddenly dropping her mike and yelling "God! This isn't possible. Oh my God! Oh my Gooooooooooood!" In one of the videos, for just a frame or two, you can see a faint image of a green smiling face superimposed over hers as she passes out from the overwhelming pleasure.

Sandy and I stop by every few months to check on things. She insists that it be after hours so that she and Julan can be alone together. Walt and I go into his office and look over the books while she strips naked, lays on the bar and "exchanges vapors" with Julan. I guess I should be jealous or something, but she says it recharges her sexual batteries, and she more than makes it up to me in the weeks between.

I still have the ability to grant wishes. Some are good. A single mother worrying about how she was going to feed her children suddenly had the opportunity for a new, much better job. Some are not so good. An abusive asshole of a husband knocked his trembling wife to the ground and immediately grabbed his chest and dropped to the ground himself with a fatal heart attack. Some are a bit of a surprise. A woman looking at dresses through a mall window suddenly lost over half her body weight. Unfortunately for her, she also lost all of her clothing. Her blouse, slacks and underwear were now so large that they slid to the ground around her and puddled at her feet. I followed her into the store as she shopped naked for an entirely new wardrobe.

I don't grant every wish. I like to listen to people in crowds and grant things that appeal to me. My mother always used to warn me, "Be careful what you wish for." With me around, that is very good advice. Be careful what you wish for. I might be listening. And who knows, you might hear a soft voice answer, "Wish granted."

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Oh, you made me have happy-feelings. Naughty of you! Lovely story. Wish every second of your life will be as pleasing to you as would keep you very happy.

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For the first time I can honesty say I'm giving this story a positive vote.....I thought it was cute as hell...wish granted.....

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I like the premise of the story. LOVED the last line

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Mom loves to walk around the house in just her panties after she showers the house is hot and we have no a/c.

I have grown use to seeing her bare tits they are not real large and they sag a little.

Her white cotton panties cover her bush and I have never seen it.

One night in the fall she showered and put on a loose robe and sat on the couch to watch some tv, she must have fallen asleep,because when I walked in her robe was open and I saw her hairy pussy for the first time. It was beautiful and as I watched she moved and her legs opened a little more that gave me a full view of her whole slit.

I couldn't do anything but stand there and stare at her womanhood, it had more hair that I thought it would have, my heart was racing so I thought she would hear it.

I don't to this day know what came over me,but I dropped to my knees and put my face it between her legs and started licking her slit. It started to get wet and her legs were open wider now she began to moan just a little so I keep running my tongue up and down,she picked up her ass and my tongue went into her hole she was realy moving now, but she never opened her eyes just keep moaning.

Next she grabbed the back of my head and gave my face a good fucking, I guess she was cuming as she was wetting my entire face with her pussy juice. She bucked my face a couple more times and my nose went in her cunt then she lay still.

My prick was as hard as a rock and I wanted to fuck her so I crawled up on her as her legs were wide open and her hole was soaking wet. My prick was right at the opening and the lips were ready to swallow my cock I was afraid she would stop me so I drove it in with one push. She let out a moan and I knew it didn't hurt her.

My first entry to a cunt it was wonderful,my cock is only 6" long and she took it all with one push, I didn't know how fast or slow to go so I just pushing it into her.

She was awake now and told me she didn't want me to cum in her. I begged it felt so good I didn't want to jerk off I told her.

She let me keep puting it to her and I guess she knew when I was ready because she pushed me off and said make me suck your cock. How I asked just tell me to and push my head down on it. I did as she said and pushed her down to the floor and spread my legs and said suck my cock, Now.

She took my cock in her hand and put it in her mouth and started sucking it like it was a candy cane. My cock was ready to shut its load and I yelled suck my cock you cocksucker and she did, my cum filled her mouth and was running out the sides and down her chin and throat she opened her mouth and spit my cum all over me I scooped it up and rubbed it on her face and tits she started laughing we are quite a pair, aren't we.

Mom I loved that, but I want to cum in your cunt. You can honey, but we must use a condom.

Mom how did you learn to suck like that I have never seen you with a man.

How did you learn to eat pussy I never see you with a girl.

I love my Mom...

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The machine - Page 8

Sup. Scott Wiener is relentless, driven, prolific — and changing San Francisco in sometimes alarming ways

Scott Wiener follows Harvey Milk, Harry Britt, and Bevan Dufty representing a neighborhood that's changed profoundly.

But Wiener denies there was any political calculation on the TIDF vote, and he cast that vote as a lesson in political organizing. "We have not been organized enough in term of building political power for pro-transit policies, whether it's pedestrian safety or public transportation. We know that we've systematically underfunded Muni, we know that Muni does not do well in funding battles, it doesn't have effective lobbying for it," Wiener said.

"We had an all-star cast of public transit advocates up against the Chamber and it was a mismatch, so we need to build up much more institutional capacity for transit advocacy. That's what we're learning."


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Millie's finally back in town, so all is well again in North Beach.

The 85-year-old street icon with the beaming, toothless smile and ever-ready Polaroid camera was fetched from Reno Wednesday night by friends, and by Thursday she was back at her rounds.

Which for Millie means trundling from her low-rent hotel room to the nearest cafe for a chat and a free coffee, then off to another cafe for another chat and another free coffee. Or soup. Or just chat.

And always a huge grin. Also always ready to take someone's Polaroid picture for $5.

Everywhere Millie walked Thursday, people boiled out of the cafes and stores to greet her shuffling little visage like she was a returning heroine. Ever since she went missing Feb. 9, the tight-knit folk of San Francisco's famously bohemian district had been worried about her, and when Millie turned up disoriented and chilled to the bone at a Reno hospital, it was as if the neighborhood breathed a huge sigh of relief.

That sigh became cries of delight Thursday.

"Millie! Millie!" one crowd yelped as she walked slowly - and in her frail condition, it is always slowly - past the Gino and Carlo lounge on Green Street. "Glad you're back!" one woman yelled, face bright. "You had an adventure!" another said.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah," Millie called back, never pausing her stride. "You be careful on the steps there, now. You be good to each other."

As she strolled, Millie filled in some blanks that had glared while she was gone.

As they tried to determine if it was really her in the Renown Regional Medical Center, concerned politicians, rabbis, cafe and saloon owners all over North Beach struggled to choose which of her many reported last names and birthdates were real. Recollections emerged that she was a tattooed Holocaust survivor, a beatnik, a rich heiress and a pal of the late, flamboyant pianist Liberace.

The answer to the last name was typed onto a label on her camera: Mildred Fishman Gardiner. Her birth date, she said eagerly, is coming up: Feb. 23. The year: 1923.

"I'm just a poor Jew, and I don't talk about myself much," she said. "But that Holocaust stuff - I don't know how that got started. I was born in Cleveland. I've never been out of the country, and I hate tattoos. Won't have 'em."

She was indeed a beatnik, though, as evidenced by her image with late husband Butch in a mural that hung in the now-defunct Old Spaghetti Factory. As for Liberace: "Sure, I knew him," Millie said. "He played here. I met him a few times. He was good. You don't get them like that from the old days anymore."

It seems the main trouble Reno hospital managers had was figuring out to whom they should release Millie. She apparently has no living relatives. But hospital officials eventually forged an agreement with Reno police and the folks in San Francisco to let her come home with two pals.

Those friends, Jenny and Phillip Antoniolli, drove up Wednesday and found her happy, healthy - and a new favorite of the nurses.

Millie explained that she wound up being picked up by emergency officials, disoriented and freezing in the streets of Reno, because she took a bus there to visit a synagogue and got lost.

"I got the wrong bus and went the wrong way, that's all," she said. "It was very cold. They were very nice at the hospital."

In honor of Millie's sojourn, her friends are planning a birthday party on Monday, her birthday, at Enrico's restaurant, 504 Broadway. The bash begins at 8 p.m., said co-owner Seamus Cronin, and it's open to all her friends. Victoria Pastry is donating a cake.

"Everyone around here has claimed her as their own special person, so it will be a pretty big crowd," said North Beach Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Marsha Garland. "She is such a dear."


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California's electric utilities have spent the last four years scrambling to meet an aggressive goal set by the state - get 20 percent of their power from renewable sources by the end of 2010.

They won't make it. But they won't miss by much. And the process of trying to reach that goal has helped make California the center of renewable power development in the United States, although the cost to consumers remains to be seen.

With less than a month to go, state regulators expect the utilities to get, on average, 18 percent of the electricity they sell this year from wind farms, solar power plants and geothermal plants tapping the Earth's underground heat. Next year, if all goes as planned, they should hit 21 percent.

The state law that established the 20 percent goal, known as the "renewable portfolio standard," allows late compliance. Any utility that falls short of 20 percent at the end of this year must overshoot that goal by an equal amount next year. The companies have, in fact, three years to meet or beat the goal.

"The program was a little slow to get started, but it really has momentum now," said Julie Fitch, director of the energy division of the California Public Utilities Commission. "There is a tremendous amount of activity. ... We're seeing a lot of projects, in fact a lot more projects than the utilities need."

The 2010 deadline has for years driven the development of California's small but growing renewable power industry. So has another deadline, set by the federal government, that by coincidence will arrive at the same time.

Stimulating growth

Renewable power plant developers who start construction before the end of this year can get a federal cash grant worth 30 percent of their project's total cost, in lieu of taking a tax credit of equal size. The grants are part of President Obama's $787 billion economic stimulus package, approved by Congress in early 2009. The package devoted roughly $26.6 billion to renewable power generation.

Together, the dual deadlines set off a two-year mad dash among utility companies, renewable project developers and state regulators that will soon wind down.

Developers raced to secure government permits and scrounged for financing, scarce after the 2008 economic meltdown. Utilities needing to sign power purchase agreements had to decide which proposed solar plants, wind farms and geothermal plants stood the best chance of getting built. Regulators faced a slew of renewable projects seeking government approval at once. And regulators hadn't approved any big solar plants since the 1980s.

"They had to wrap their brains around how to permit these projects - they hadn't done this in a very long time," said Rachel McMahon, director of government affairs for Solar Millennium. The German company, which has an office in Oakland, won commission approval in September to build a solar plant in Riverside County capable of generating up to 1,000 megawatts at peak capacity. A megawatt is equal to the amount of electricity used by 750 typical homes at any given instant.

"Obviously, doing things in a rush made things more difficult," McMahon said.

Still, the dash produced results. The California Energy Commission approved construction of seven large solar thermal power plants - which use mirrors to generate steam and produce electricity - that together will be able to generate up to 2,979 megawatts at peak capacity. Another two plants could receive approval later this month.

Further capacity

Meanwhile, other companies are building wind farms and large photovoltaic solar facilities, which use the same kinds of solar cells that cover many California rooftops. Those projects are harder to track because they don't require state approval, their developers working with county governments instead. But an incomplete list compiled by the energy commission counted enough proposed wind and photovoltaic projects to generate 6,434 megawatts. And those are just the ones seeking federal financing.

The utilities won't need all of those projects to reach 20 percent. But Gov. Schwarzenegger and state regulators have set a further goal of 33 percent renewable power by 2020. And while that higher standard has not yet been enshrined in law, utilities and project developers are gearing up to meet it. State Sen. Joe Simitian, D-Palo Alto introduced legislation on Monday that would require the utilities to meet the 33 percent renewable standard by 2020.

The cost could be substantial.

The state utilities commission, which must approve the power purchase contracts that utilities sign with renewable power plant owners, allows the companies to keep private the financial details of each deal. As a result, it's impossible for the public to know exactly how much the drive to reach 20 percent has added to monthly electricity bills.

Critics of the renewable portfolio standard (RPS) have often worried that the 2010 deadline would allow owners of wind farms, solar facilities and geothermal plants to charge a high premium for their power, because the utilities had to buy it.

"By creating this deadline, it gave the sellers leverage," said Michael Shames, executive director of the Utility Consumers' Action Network watchdog group. Meanwhile, the price of natural gas, which fuels most of California's power plants, has fallen dramatically, making renewable power look even more costly in comparison.

Higher electricity bills?

A study released in 2009 by the utilities commission estimated that California's electricity prices would rise 16.7 percent by 2020 if the state stopped adding renewable power and stuck with natural gas plants instead. If the renewable portfolio standard stayed at 20 percent through 2020, prices would rise an additional 2.8 percent. Raise the standard to 33 percent renewable power, and prices would rise another 7.1 percent.

"I think the RPS is a really good objective," Shames said. "It's something we should be striving for. But it's going to turn out to be far more expensive than people expected because of the low cost of natural gas."

Prices will depend largely on the number of renewable projects built in coming years. That, in turn, will depend on the private and public financing available to project developers. Many analysts expect the number of large-scale renewable projects under development to fall in 2011, after the stimulus grant ends. Solar and wind companies want Congress to extend the grant program but may not succeed.

"I do think we'll continue to see renewable energy projects proposed in California, but I wouldn't be surprised to see some drop-off in the next year," said Karen Douglas, chairwoman of the California Energy Commission.

The energy commission is now studying ways to speed up its process for approving large solar and geothermal projects. In the last two years, it added staff to handle the workload and found ways to coordinate its work with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, which controls many of the desert areas coveted by solar developers.

Green energy, red tape

Developers say they appreciate the extra effort - but the process still needs improvement. Tandy McMannes, vice president of business development for Abengoa Solar Inc., said his company's proposed solar plant in San Bernardino County had to meet more than 200 specific environmental conditions before winning approval.

"We're a solar plant, and we have 67 conditions for air quality," McMannes said. "The actual process worked. Having said that, the process is expensive, and the conditions of certification are onerous."


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The Richmond

A favorite destination for festival attendees heading into the park, the top of Clement Street in the Inner Richmond neighborhood is known for its delectable cheap eats from around the world and one-of-a-kind locally owned boutiques. Stay warm with a Pendleton blanket and cardigan from Seedstore; pop by Park Life for a hip designer tee; or stroll over to Foggy Notion for eco body products to protect your face from the elements. And you don't want to miss Green Apple, which just happens to one of the best independent book and magazine stores on the West Coast. Make sure to come back on Sundays for the new farmers market, offering fresh regional produce from 8am to 2pm. Come visit the Seedstore/Park Life Booth at the Festival to find out more about the neighborhood!

Links about the hood

Merchant Highlights

Filled with Americana styles for Men and Women, Seedstore is one of the city's best places to find classics such as Pendleton and Penfield, while discovering local and independent designers. Your place to find labels such as Bridge and Burn, Nudie, Tellason, Naked and Famous, Raleigh in SF.

212 Clement St.

Park Life

Park Life features art and design products culled together from all over the world. They feature hard to find, limited edition, and unique items that include; books (art, type, design, photography, etc.), modern design objects, prints, paper goods, tee-shirts, home-wares, jewelry, artist multiples, original art and more.

220 Clement St

Foggy Notion

The name of the store, Foggy Notion, refers to Alissa’s inspirations of music (Velvet Underground), design (sewing notions), and her favorite San Francisco weather phenomenon. Foggy Notion carries the most unique mix of handmade and vintage goods.

275 6th Ave #101

Green Apple Books

Founded in 1967, Green Apple is one of SF's oldest independent book sellers and is packed full of treasures. From vinyl to graphic novels to the newest fiction, their comprehensive inventory brings travelers in from around the world.

506 Clement St.

Healthy Spirits

Beer, bourbon, and hummus surround you at Healthy Spirits, one of the newest additions to our neighborhood. They carry one of the most extensive collections of spirits in the city and above all else are stellar in their picks and recommendations.

2299 15th St.

Good Eats

Burma Superstar

Its on every foodies bucket list and well worth the wait. The tea leaf salad and samusa soup are perennial favorites!

309 Clement St

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Breakfast is king at Eats! The choice brunch spot in our neighborhood.

50 Clement St.

Fusion at its best. A delicious place for pork belly tacos, taro chips and pumpkin pork stew.

127 Clement St

Good Luck Dim Sum

Cheap and tasty dim sum to take out and satisfy that craving.

736 Clement St

Sake, yakitori, beer, then top it off with a hot bowl of ramen. That's how you do it at Halu.

312 8th Ave

Blue Danube

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The best place to grab a salad on the street. Blue Danube has great indoor/outdoor seating. Take a seat and prepare for some of the best people watching in the hood.

306 Clement St

Toy Boat Dessert Cafe

Ice cream, sandwiches, coffee, and vintage toys. Toy Boat is an institution in the city, stop in and grab a cone.

401 Clement St.

San Francisco’s southwest corner is a hidden gem. Cradled in the fog, with sweeping views of the Pacific Ocean, the Outer Sunset has plenty to explore before, after, and between sets at the festival! Stay warm with some Shanghai Soup Dumplings from Kingdom of Dumpling, grab some unique coffee blends at Henry’s House of Coffee or Java Beach Café, or bring home a San Francisco souvenir with a “The Avenues” t-shirt from the Hard Wear Store. Before the festival, grab a hearty Breakfast Sandwich at Devil’s Teeth Baking Company, and walk across the street to Establish, where you can find unique jewelry, home goods, and post cards. Once called the “Outside Lands” the west side of San Francisco has many great things to offer!

Outer Sunset Businesses

4001 Judah Street

Outerlands is a gathering place for sea goers who seek warmth, shelter, food, and fellowship- a retreat from the saltwater chill, or a place to hang your hat after a long day's frolic in the sun. Locally sourced, organic fare served in a cozy, handcrafted setting: Lunch and dinner Tuesday-Saturday and Sunday brunch.

Polly Ann Ice Cream

3138 Noriega Street

For over fifty years, Polly Ann Ice Cream has been delighting residents and visitors alike with their collection of over 500 flavors of ice cream, all made by Polly Ann staff. If you’re feeling adventurous, spin the big wheel and see what flavor you land on. Polly Ann offers unique flavors such as lychee, black sesame, and pink lemonade. You can also get all of the classic flavors, and many with a twist.

Henry’s House of Coffee

1618 Noriega Street

Six days a week, Henry hand-roasts premium blends, some of them only available in rare locations. For 45 years, master coffee roaster Henry Kalebjian and his family have been roasting daily in their Noriega St. store. Customers come by regularly to watch Henry roast, and the store has a loyal following of customers that travel from throughout the Bay Area to the store. This hand-roasted coffee has been voted "Best of the Bay" by San Francisco Bay Guardian. The only way to describe the difference between the coffee we drink on a daily basis and hand-roasted coffee is to compare the quality of fast-food to a gourmet meal.

Irving Pizza

1825 Irving Street

Irving Pizza was born in NYC, but raised in San Francisco. Open into the wee hours of the morning, for your convenience, Irving Pizza offers not only pizza, but hot sandwiches, burgers, salads, desserts, and more. Recent specials include the "Irish Special" with chicken, ham, sweet corn, and bell peppers.

Pho Phu Quoc a.k.a. "PPQ"

1816 Irving Street

PPQ serves up fresh Vietnamese food including Five-Spice Chicken, Spring Rolls, and their delicious varieties of Phở noodle soup. Phở (pronounced “fuh”) is a Vietnamese noodle soup consisting of broth, noodles, herbs and meat. Phở at PPQ has a variety of delicious ingredients including sprouts, lemon, jalapeno, basil, onions, cilantro and your choice of egg noodles, vermicelli or round noodles. You can have chicken, beef or seafood or even vegetarian Phở at PPQ. Don’t forget about the iced Vietnamese coffee!

Java Beach Café

1396 La Playa Street

Java Beach is an independent, mom ‘n pop shop co-owned by San Francisco husband and wife team, Patrick and Buffy Maguire. Ocean Beach is where they live, work and play. Their days are devoted to making Java Beach the best it can be. This process starts with the coffee, where they engage in meticulous standards of sourcing, cupping and roasting. They apply these high standards to every aspect at Java Beach. Their menu features an array of unique coffees, bagels, sandwiches, salads and fresh pastries.

The Taco Shop @ Underdogs

1824 Irving Street

From the a taco done Nick’s Way to one of their special burritos, the kitchen prepares each item with careful attention. Meats are slow cooked and infused with flavor. Produce and fish are fresh as they are purchased each morning to ensure an unsurpassed quality. Even the margaritas are prepared fresh and for each customer using agave nectar. The result is a mouthwatering goodness that will leave you wanting to come back for more!

The Pizza Place on Noriega

3901 Noriega Street

The chef/owners, who both live nearby, opened The Pizza Place on Noriega because they wanted to serve their community and make it a gathering place for all. Specials include “The Rocha” with kale, garlic, roasted potatoes, bacon, tomato sauce and cheese; and the “Meathead” with pepperoni, sausage, ham, salami, red onion, tomato sauce and cheese as well as many other delicious pizzas and appetizers. Pizza is also served on a “create your own” basis as well as by the slice.

La Playa Taqueria

3817 Noriega Street

La Playa Taqueria serves fresh Mexican fare by the sea. You can’t go wrong with their fresh classics such as the Super Burrito with your choice of meat or the Fish Tacos; but they also have a Super Veggie Burrito, a Chille Relleno Burrito, and a Three Pepper Burrito with grilled chicken or steak with rice, beans, bell peppers, onions and fresh salsa.

Tazaki Sushi

3420 Judah Street

Located in the Outer Sunset, Tazaki Sushi serves a variety of Japanese fare. Their Sizzling Fish Specials are served on a sizzling hot plate and comes with your choice of Chilean Sea Bass, Ahi Steak, Butterfish, Swordfish, Salmon, Orange Roughy, Halibut, Ono, Scallop Steak, Monk Fish, Mahi Mahi or Tazaki Clams. Tazaki Sushi also carries classic Maki and Nigiri sushis as well as Udon, Cold Soba and Ramen. They are open for lunch Tuesday through Sunday 12pm – 3pm and Dinner Sunday through Thursday 5pm – 10pm and Friday and Saturday 5pm – 11pm.

Devil’s Teeth Baking Company

3876 Noriega Street

Devil’s Teeth is open Wednesday – Monday, 7am – 4pm, and serves Bicycle coffee, Scharffen Berger hot chocolate, breakfast, lunch and sweets and desserts. They are famous for their Breakfast Sandwich – two eggs scrambled with cheddar cheese, applewood smoked bacon, all on a homemade buttermilk biscuit. They have BLTs, chicken curry salad, lasagna, and a delicious cinnamon roll among many other sweet treats. Stop by on Sunday mornings for freshly made beignets. Enjoy all of these treats while sitting outside in their award-winning parklet!

Kingdom of Dumpling

1713 Taraval Street

Chinese Dumpling (Jiaozi) is a traditional Chinese food and is one of the most widely loved foods in the world. Shanghai-style dumplings are served up hot and fresh at Kingdom of Dumpling. Enjoy their Pork Dumplings, Chicken and Corn Dumplings, or their famous Shanghai Soup Dumplings along with a crispy Onion Pancake.

3811 Noriega Street

Our purpose is to integrate our style with the landscape of the developing neighborhood, while offering unique goods and services to the area. Our partners include interior designers, artists, woodworkers, jewelry makers, florists and photographers. The space is an energetic variety of creative processes - open to all who are searching for inspiration and collaboration. Our style blends the influence of the beach, treasure seeking and travel culture - while escalating what it means to be part of each of these ways of life. We offer affordable, quality products that are sustainably made and support local crafts people.

The General Store

4035 Judah Street

General Store is a collective design community originally founded by Serena Mitnik-Miller and Mason St. Peter. General Store features carefully curated items from both new and vintage sources. Local Artisans and Craftspeople contribute to the mix of furniture, clothing, tools, plants, household items, books, jewelry, cards and small treasures, a little bit of everything useful. Stop by for a visit!

The Hard Wear Store

2401 Irving Street

We are a local store, owned and operated by a local resident of the Outer Sunset in San Francisco, California. At The Hard Wear Store you will shop for great trusted brands and unique local designs in a relaxed atmosphere. The Hard Wear Store carries mean and women’s clothing including Levi’s, Carhartt, Ben Davis and Dickies. Some of their most popular apparel items include their local t-shirts sporting San Francisco street signs such as "Fillmore" or "Avenues" or their sweatshirts representing "Ocean Beach".

Dear Golden Gate Park Neighbor,

Another Planet Entertainment and Superfly Presents, in association with San Francisco’s Recreation and Park Department and the City of San Francisco are producing the 8th Annual Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival in Golden Gate Park (Polo Field, Hellman Hollow, Marx & Lindley Meadows) on Friday, August 7th - Sunday, August 9th, 2015. This concert event helps benefit Golden Gate Park with a considerable portion of ticket sales going directly to Rec & Park.

We are committed to mitigating the impact of the event in your neighborhood. Below is information to help serve that purpose.

Community Hotline:

Again this year, we will have a Community Hotline to respond to any issues that may affect you during the festival. The festival hotline will be available from 10:00am – 11:00PM on the festival days. The hotline number is (415) 872-1650.

Parking and Alternative Means of Transportation:

To help alleviate vehicle congestion in your neighborhood, we are strongly encouraging patrons to take alternative means of transportation to the festival, including MUNI, private shuttles, biking or walking. We will have 2 dedicated tow trucks and 1 Parking Control Officer on each side of the Park to quickly respond to any blocked driveways or any other parking issues related to the Festival. Rec & Park has printed signs alerting attendees to not block driveways, which may be obtained at the front desk of McLaren Lodge at 501 Stanyan St. If you need to have a vehicle towed please call the MTA directly at 415-553-1237 or 415-553-1200.

Park Access:

Please note this is 2014 information. Check back for updates! To ensure safety and security of both the public and working crews, park locations will close and reopen as follows:

Polo Field: Wednesday 7/30 6am – Thursday 8/14 8pm
Hellman Hollow: Sunday 8/3 6am – Wednesday 8/13 8pm
Lindley Meadow (East End): Monday 8/4 8am – Tuesday 8/12 8pm
Lindley Meadow (West End): Tuesday 8/5 8am – Tuesday 8/12 8pm
Marx Meadow: Monday 8/4 6am – Monday 8/11 8pm

Other Park Areas:

Lloyd Lake, Metson Lake, Spreckels Lake and the Dog Run will be closed to vehicles August 6 – 9. JFK Dr between Transverse and 36th Ave will be closed to non-ticket holder pedestrian traffic August 6 – 9.

Road Closures:

We would like to make you aware of the following road closures due to the event, so that you may plan accordingly. The following entrances will be closed to the public from Thursday, Aug 6th at 8:00PM through Sunday, Aug 9th at 11:00pm:

On north side of the park:
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• JFK Dr at Transverse Dr
• 30th Ave
• 36th Ave
• 43rd Ave (Chain of Lakes)
• 47th Ave
• JFK Dr at the Great Highway.

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• Martin Luther King Jr Dr at Crossover Dr
• 25th Ave
• 41st Ave (Chain of Lakes)
• Martin Luther King Jr Dr at Lincoln Ave
• Sunset Blvd at Irving Street
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Dear Dharma Friend,

Over and over, through seemingly small acts, we experience our minds changing, opening, and finding flexibility and a new freedom. This benefits not only us as individuals, it ripples outward and affects everyone everywhere—the whole earth and entire sky.

Zen practice supports us in becoming truly ourselves and no one in particular. It is a practice that opens us to possibility, and creates community and connection. And that’s extraordinary. That is why we are here—to support Zen practice. From this fundamental practice flows a greater capacity to live in peace and to engage with each other in new ways to be helpful.

As we enter the season of giving, we invite your continued support of Zen Center. Your financial contribution is essential—it literally keeps the zendo doors open for all who seek the transformative power of Zen practice and to live an extraordinary ordinary life!

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If there was ever a product needing a manual, frankly it’s Google Plus. It remains a rather obtuse beast — at least to my way of seeing things. Google Plus: The Missing Manual attempts to remedy this by providing a comprehensive review of all the possible interactions you’d have with the web service from a user perspective. So, do I feel like I know the service any better after reading the book. No, not really, unfortunately maybe it’s just the case that G+ doesn’t work the way I do. The book makes a valiant effort, but I have a sense that I personally would be better served by a pure cookbook approach. I would characterize this ‘manual’ as a hybrid approach. Although it structurally does follow a cookbook like structure, I found a tendency to words where graphics and images would better suit the purpose. This isn’t to say that the information isn’t there, I just found it harder to find. This is not to say that the book isn’t well illustrated. It’s full of great full-colour screen shots. I think what might improve it for me would be the addition of diagrams that represented the processes related to accomplishing tasks using pictures rather than words.

I am loathe to blame the author or the book overly for any failure as I really think that it’s the product itself that just doesn’t jive for me in terms of usability and this puts the judgement of the book in the negative column for me. So, in fairness this is a very thorough book that does attempt to deal with all the idiosyncrasies of the product and does it very well, it just seems to interracially suffer from the same defect of the product in how I like to work with information. It may well serve your needs admirably and if you are still confused about how and why to use Google Plus then this could well be the book for you. It is nicely self-paced and it provides copious side-info about the rationale behind the various features that I did find very illustrative and helpful. The prose here is lively and engaging, there just seems to be an overabundance of it.

It’s just that you really shouldn’t need a manual with a product such as Google Plus. If you do…then there is a problem with the product and as yet, it just doesn’t work for me…and I so want it to. I just spent the time to read a book to help me use it. I am making a commitment to it, but don’t feel it makes the same commitment to me.

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Missa Sanctorum Apostolorum in C composed by Johann Valentin Rathgeber. Edited by Wilfried Dotzauer. Arranged by Wilfried Dotzauer. For SATB vocal soli, SATB choir, 2 violins, basso continuo, [2 trumpets, 2 trombones, timpani]. C-Dur (C major). German title: Missa Sanctorum Apostolorum. Latin Masses. Level 2. Violin 1 part. Language: Latin. Composed 1738. Op. 19, No. 1. 16 pages. Duration 37 minutes. Published by Carus Verlag (CA.4063211).

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Piano Trios (Study Score). Composed by Franz Schubert (1797-1828). Edited by Eva Badura-Skoda. For Piano Trio. STUDY EDITION. Henle Study Scores. Pages: 156. Softcover. 156 pages. G. Henle #HN9193. Published by G. Henle (HL.51489193).

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Ukulele Christmas Carols composed by Lee. For Ukulele (Soprano). Saddle-stitched, Solos. Christmas. Beginning. Book. 32 pages. Published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc (MB.20886).

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Featuring 28 well-known Christmas songs arranged for ukulele with chord symbols for an accompaniment instrument. Book contains chord diagrams for ukulele and guitar as well as common strum patterns to use for rhythm backup. All songs are arranged in standard notation and tablature for ukulele.

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  • Toyland  Performed by MacDonough/Herbert
  • Up on the Housetop  Performed by Benjamin Russell Hanby
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Her fiancé may want to get out

Is Britney Spears' fiancé Jason Trawick looking to get out of their relationship. Rumors are flying about a possible breakup.

Sometimes the girlfriend is the last to know. It appears Britney Spears might be that girl if the rumor is true.

According to an exclusive by Hollyscoop, Spears' fiancé, Jason Trawick, is about to split up with the singer. The worst part about the possible breakup is that the The X Factor judge doesn't know about it yet.

A source told the entertainment website, "Jason has told Britney’s entire family that he’s planning to leave her, so that Britney will have a support system when he breaks the bad news."

The rumors about their possible breakup have been circulating for months, but the stories have always talked about Spears being the unhappy partner in the relationship. If this story pans out, it is Trawick who is leading the way to splitsville.

Apparently Spears' fiancé wanted to wait until the season finale of The X Factor aired so that she could be focused on the show and not distracted by the bad news. The judge continually has had concentration issues during the earlier part of the season.

If the former agent does leave the relationship, this leaves a few questions for the conservatorship of the Spears estate. Trawick was named co-conservator with her dad, Jamie, back in April by the courts in anticipation of the couple's impending nuptials.

No wedding date has been set for the two which has led to the speculation that there was trouble in paradise. The couple got engaged in December of 2011.

The eyebrow-raising part of Hollyscoop's story involves Trawick wanting to remain as Spears' manager after the split. Can you separate business and pleasure after such a long relationship?

There seems to be no hardcore evidence that this story is true, especially since a second source tells the website, "I haven’t heard anything about [the split], but I do know they are going on vacation together for the holidays."

In that case, does he dump her before or after the all-expenses-paid vacation?

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Whether you are a Twitter newbie or have been a longtime fan of the social media site, the following celebrity moms should definitely be on your list to follow. From stylish moms like Gwen Stefani to funny tweets from Nicole Richie and Drew Barrymore — and even those selfie-obsessed stars — check out our list of the top 25 celebrity moms you have to follow on Twitter.

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If your Twitter feed is short on laughs, then you have to follow these celebrity moms. Drew Barrymore (pictured, right) is on our list, as is Nicole Richie, among others.

Richie could also fit under the “stylish celebrity mom” category, but we couldn't resist putting her in this one because of her dry sense of humor. “I made fun of adult twins today... & then realized I am married to one,” Richie tweeted, referring to her husband Good Charlotte rocker Joel Madden, who has a twin brother Benji.

She also uses her dad, Lionel Richie, as fodder for her jokes. “I texted my dad "hi" and he responded with his therapists phone number. So I think were in a really good place,” Richie wrote.

Check out our favorite funny celebrity moms to follow:

Do-gooder/activist celebrity moms

The following celebrity moms’ Twitter feeds are full of charity links or tweets about causes they are passionate about. In fact, you can piggyback on their do-good status by re-tweeting some of their charity tweets. #Winning!

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If you are dying over Rachel Zoe’s maxi dress or Kristin Cavallari’s shoes, chances are you can find out all about them on their Twitter feed. These stylish celeb moms love sharing photos of their amazing outfits, as well as their equally stylish tots.

The occasional tweeter mom

The following celebrity moms are in the “occasional tweeter” or “ghost tweeter” category because their tweets are few and far between. In fact, a few have said they are finished with Twitter, only to return months later (ahem, Jennifer Love Hewitt). They don’t tweet often, but when they do it is usually worth it.

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The following celebrity moms are selfie queens, frequently posting snapshots of themselves at exotic locations, with their kids… or, in Kim Kardashian’s case, wearing next to nothing. Annoying? Sometimes. Entertaining? Always.

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Onion Baked Chicken Breasts

Onion Baked Chicken Breasts

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  • Cook Time: 25 min
  • Total: 35 min
  • Serving: 4-6 People

Consider making this flavorful and crunchy chicken dinner the next time you have company over for dinner.

  • 4-6 boneless, skinless chicken breast halves
  • 3 tablespoons honey mustard
  • 1-1/3 cups French fried onions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  2. Place fried onions in a plastic bag and lightly crush.
  3. Spread fried onions onto waxed paper.
  4. Using a pastry brush, spread honey mustard evenly over chicken breasts on all sides.
  5. Coat chicken with fried onions and place in baking dish.
  6. Bake at 350 degrees for 20-25 minutes or until chicken is thoroughly cooked.

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An exhausted Bobby Lashley won, but heard the Kansas crowd's boos. | Keith Mills/

Boos cascaded down upon Bobby Lashley as he tentatively raised his hand. Even in victory, the former World Wrestling Entertainment superstar could do little to quiet his critics.

Lashley notched a unanimous decision against John Ott, an overblown middleweight, in the Titan Fighting Championship 17 HDNet headliner on Friday at Memorial Hall in Kansas City, Kan. All three judges -- Mike Munoz, Mike Boyd and Henry Gueary -- sided with Lashley, 30-27, 29-27 and 29-27 respectively, as the muscle-bound 34-year-old rebounded from his first professional mixed martial arts defeat.

Lashley looked like a million bucks in the first round, as he delivered a slam takedown inside the first half minute and unleashed a brutal package of ground-and-pound -- forearms, punches, hammerfists and elbows -- that left Ott looking like a victim in a low-budget horror film. Still, his failure to finish led to exhaustion and opened the door for his detractors, who have questioned his commitment to MMA.

Winded by a pace he could not maintain, Lashley faded dramatically in the second round and could barely stand in the third. Even so, he managed to drive the fight to the ground, where he punished his undersized foe with thudding blows from the top. Ott fought valiantly from the bottom and even opened a cut above Lashley’s left eye, but he could not prevent the inevitable.

In the co-feature, Aaron Rosa did what former UFC heavyweight champion Tim Sylvia could not and turned away “The Ultimate Fighter” Season 10 alum Abe Wagner with a second-round rear-naked choke. Wagner surrendered 35 seconds into round two.

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Rosa won a wild early exchange between the two, secured a takedown and worked diligently from half guard, grinding down his foe with short punches and elbows. Within the first 15 seconds of round two, he leveled Wagner with a brutal left hook, pounced with hammerfists and wheeled around to his back. Soon after, Rosa cinched the choke and waited for the tapout from Wagner, whose 32-second knockout against Sylvia two months earlier quickly became a distant memory.

Meanwhile, Phil Baroni put the brakes on a three-fight losing streak and kept himself relevant on the regional circuit, as he took a unanimous decision from Nick Nolte in a featured middleweight bout. All three judges sided with Baroni: 29-28, 30-27 and 29-28.

Baroni weathered Nolte on the feet and scored with takedowns in all three rounds, sinking his teeth into the match with superior top control and occasional ground-and-pound. His big-fight experience paid dividends in this one, as his gas tank ran dry during the last half of the fight. Mettle kept Baroni afloat. Having returned to his roots at the American Kickboxing Academy in San Jose, Calif., the charismatic 34-year-old picked up his first victory since September 2008.

Baroni and Lashley were not the only favorites forced to go the distance.

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Bellator Fighting Championships alum Eric Marriott won for the 12th time in 14 outings, as he dominated and controlled Topeka, Kan.-based Brazilian Willian de Souza en route to a unanimous decision. All three judges scored it 30-27 for the 25-year-old Marriott, who improved to 2-0 inside the TFC promotion.

Marriott dictated the pace and direction of the match from the outset, scoring with thudding leg kicks, knees from the clinch and crisp combinations. De Souza tried desperately to induce a ground battle, but Marriott was up to the challenge and determined to keep himself upright. He grew more aggressive as the fight deepened and put clean three- and four-strike combinations together in the third round, where his advantage became even more evident.

Elsewhere, the well-traveled Alonzo Martinez survived a third-round surge from Aaron Derrow and notched a majority decision in their lightweight firefight. Two of the three cageside judges, Mike Munoz and Henry Gueary, scored it 29-28 for Martinez. A third, Mike Boyd, ruled it a 28-28 draw.

Martinez controlled rounds one and two with strategic takedowns, sporadic ground-and-pound and timely overhand rights. Derrow turned the tide in the third round, as he popped and dropped Martinez with a straight right hand. The lanky K2L Grindhouse representative nearly finished it three times over the final five minutes and appeared to have a tight rear-naked choke in place with roughly 60 seconds to go. However, Martinez survived, spun into Derrow’s guard and freed himself from danger.

The defeat snapped a career-best five-fight winning streak for Derrow, who had choked UFC veteran Rich Clementi unconscious in a stunning upset two months ago.

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James Krause KOd Nathan Schut.
Other bouts ended far more decisively.

WEC veteran James Krause made his play for the highlight reel, as he stopped Nathan Schut on a beautiful head kick and follow-up punches 41 seconds into round one of their match. The 25-year-old Krause put foot to face and scored his quickest finish in nearly three years.

Krause’s teammate, Anthony Gutierrez, tried to steal some of his thunder, as he submitted Jon Hollis with a first-round triangle choke. The end came 4:20 into round one after Hollis landed a reckless takedown and all but fed himself into the fight-ending choke.

Training out of ATT Altitude, Isidro “Chilo” Gonzalez started off the show’s professional lineup with a bang. With Lashley in his corner, Gonzalez quickly took down Travis Sveum and pounded out the MMA Center product just 51 seconds into their middleweight bout.

In amateur action, Marques Jackson put away Cody Sherwood with a rear-naked choke 2:57 into their middleweight contest, while Laura Marcusse secured a rear-naked choke of her own 1:50 into the second frame of her 110-pound duel with Emily Reed.

Keith Mills contributed to this report.

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