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This week in San Francisco!
Monday 10/22: Free comedy in North Beach at Melt the Mic, featuring Lynn Ruth Miller, the “poster girl for growing old disgracefully.” Free, 8pm. Melt Cafe.
Tuesday 10/23: Booksmith hosts author Mark Danielewski’s multimedia “a ghost story for grownups,” Fifty Year Sword to the Swedish American Hall with NPR’s Chris O’Riley.
...moreFakhir returns to discuss the mysteries of God and parking with Alina Simone in this round of Chats With Random Men.
...moreAlina Simone becomes the target of a globe-encompassing beam of love in this edition of Chats with Random Men.
...moreWhen she’s not writing music or books, Alina Simone talks with random men on Facebook. This time, about Osama bin Laden.
...moreSinger Alina Simone chats with random men on her Facebook page — here she welcomes back an old “friend” in this midnight chat with Kleber:
...moreChatting with random men via Facebook, singer Alina Simone solicits advice from Nepal on whether or not to feed her unborn child a donut.
...moreSinger Alina Simone chats with random men on her Facebook page — and occasionally fights with random men … meet Amit.
...moreAlina’s old friend Kleber returns for a random Facebook chat, this time with a little surprise.
...moreRussian singer Alina Simone continues her random Facebook chats with men, this week discussing constipation and pregnancy with a Turkish fan:
...moreFor our final installment of Chats with Random Men, Alina has her third random chat with Klebe, who tells her about his random chat with Robin Williams…
7:05pm Kleber
guess who came to restaurant today?
7:05pm Alina
Scarlett Johanssen? Obama? Jesus?
Part two of Alina’s random chat with Kleber:
7:25pm Kleber
you know what!! here in Times Square people are so freaking weird
7:25pm Alina
listening
This chat begins a three-part discussion with Alina’s new friend, Kleber, Klebe, the Klebes:
10:38 pm Kleber
hello Alina Simone
10:38 pm Alina
what’s up, Kleb?
This week Alina randomly chats with a Nepali poet:
11:07 pm Rajendra
Hi madam
11:07 pm Alina
Hello sir
Note: These are actual chats conducted on Facebook with men who instant message the musician Alina Simone.
If you too keep getting scammed for money by Russian women, you won’t want to miss this week’s random chat with James…
...moreThis week Alina randomly chats with Abraham, a modern day renaissance man…
...moreThis week’s random chat with a man — meet Matteo…
...moreThis week we kick off a new blog where Brooklyn-based singer/writer Alina Simone teaches us how to use the Internet for its penultimate purpose: chatting with random men.
Beginning with Emre…
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