I still can’t believe I didn’t try to get a fee for this piece, but it was worth the slight to my professional integrity to get the good ol’ Battlewagon into the limelight for a few seconds in the SF Chronicle. Too bad the friggin’ COPY [...]
As promised, all photos! I may or may not do a final wrap up on video, with interviews. We’ll see. Read the whole story in order, if you want: 1. The whole story started with the hood installation in mid-June 2. Things really got cooking [...]
This article was written by William Cracraft and first published in 1998 in an Oakland Tribune special adverstising supplement celebrating the opening of the Aircraft Carrier Hornet Museum. One of the Hornet’s greatest claims to fame is the flawless recovery of U.S. astronauts from the [...]
This article was written by William Cracraft and first published in 1998 in an Oakland Tribune special adverstising supplement celebrating the opening of the Aircraft Carrier Hornet Museum. There she found Odysseus among the slaughtered dead men, spattered over with gore and battle filth, like [...]
This article was written by William Cracraft and first published in 1998 in an Oakland Tribune special adverstising supplement celebrating the opening of the Aircraft Carrier Hornet Museum. The sheer size of the Hornet illustrates the size of her volunteers’ jobs. With thousands of square [...]
This article was written by William Cracraft and first published in 1998 in an Oakland Tribune special adverstising supplement celebrating the opening of the Aircraft Carrier Hornet Museum. Ron Bubeck worked on the flight deck of the Hornet at the start of the Cold War [...]
Oh, Zeus, mighty god of rain, have pity on us, the people of Northern California for we lack sun & that makes us impatient & lethargic at the same time. Also, thy brother, Hades, is shoving thy stinkin’ rainwater into the basements of the unfortunate [...]
Feasibility Study (Written for a technical writing class in 2001) Executive Summary This study set out to determine if net income from a fencing club located in San Mateo County would be enough to justify actually opening a club. I define “enough” as in the [...]
Ol’ rebel filmmaker Robert Rodriguez and badly twisted Antonio Banderas have ended up with a film that is très hollywoodien, under the aegis of Harvey & Bob Weinstein, no less. Looks like somebody grew up and had kids. Looks like somebody wanted their kids to [...]
It was Saturday night in Paris and as my cab came to a halt outside Maxim’s a liveried doorman charged into the street to meet it. I was ushered into a warm atmosphere of rich wood paneling, cleverly placed mirrors and polished brass fixtures. The [...]