About Dave Ford

Dave Ford is a San Francisco writer whose work has appeared in Spin, the San Francisco Chronicle, the San Francisco Examiner, SF Weekly, The Advocate, and a host of other periodicals. He writes the blog First of All, and is a certified yoga instructor who teaches at various venues in his home city.

Aviation Urination

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Is there anything more horrifying than having to urinate on an airplane and having no access to the lavatories?

Ain’t That America

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Is there any better way to celebrate our great nation’s birth than to shoot off some fireworks, call the cops on yourself, and get locked in a police van?

Ketchup Crimes and Talking Chihuahuas

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Is there really nothing left to steal? Nothing at all except for 21 tons of ketchup and mustard. An all-larceny Dudes in the News spectacular.

Drug-Addled Troubadours

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Musicians make the wrong pharmaceutical and relationship choices in this week’s Dudes in the News.

The Catastrophe

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In this week’s Dudes in the News, cocktails, cars, and alligators make a recipe for catastrophe.

The Weasel Wielding Warrior

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In this week’s Dudes in the News, Dave Ford gives the Associated Press what for. What for? There’s only one way to find out.

By Horse or By Steamroller

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Dudes this week highlights some drunken, ill-advised methods of transportation.

Masked Men Ditch Donuts

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This week’s Dudes reveals that burglary, like so many other things, is a skill best left to the adults.

A Pound of Coin

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This week’s Dudes decodes the real worth of the right-wing all-stars, as well as the usual suspects. In pennies.

The Perils of the Pocket-Dial

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More mischief from misunderstood men in this week’s Dudes in the News.

Man’s Ebbs and Floes

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Summer is approaching, and this week’s “Dudes” is awash with seasonal shenanigans. Read on for stories about “kind of stupid” guys getting wet.

The Blotto Blotter

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Our weekly roundup of cockeyed criminality continues, this time with extra inebriety.

How Do You Figure?

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Never formulaic—but always punctual—this week’s roundup of wacky news features stupid criminals failing to do the math.

Behold! The Pickled Penis

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Practically impervious to petering out, our weekly issues of wacky news continue, this time with alliteration.

Suckin’ Quarters and Shuttling Corpses

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Our weekly illustrated chronicle of wacky, dude-based news items continues, this time with a guy vacuuming quarters out of washing machines and a stinky shotgun corpse.

The 17-Toilet Protest

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… and more noble, just, and otherwise unerringly virtuous acts from God’s most glorious creation: dudes.