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November 1, 2005
Better Living Through... well, just about Everything
Everyone who reads this blog with any regularity knows this already, but for those of you Google-searching for a specific Kyle Minor, keep in mind that this one is not me.
Soapbox derby does some fast living in S.F.Mark Hedin, Chronicle Staff Writer
Tuesday, November 1, 2005
On a gloriously sunny Sunday afternoon, several hundred of the city's most-tattooed denizens spent the day on Bernal Heights' western slope, cheering as a motley collection of wheeled contraptions, maintaining only the barest pretense of control, hurtled by.
--SNIP--
In Sunday's pneumatic-tire category, it came down to a duel between Kyle Minor, driving a three-wheel adapted go-kart, and the man who built that car....
I'm fairly sure the one mentioned in this article is this one, though. I have occasionally gotten calls and e-mails meant for him. They started not long after I moved here in 1997.
That there are numerous Kyle Minors (or is it Kyles Minor?) in the world is not so unusual (the one who owns www.kyleminor.com seems an interesting guy... a writer), but that there is another Kyle Minor right here in San Francisco has made me start to thinking. And we know where that leads.
Here is what I know about him:
• He went to college in Kansas and is probably from there.
• He went to Japan for a long trip a few years ago.
• He races in soap-box derby races (I actually knew this before the article).
• He used to live in or near the Castro.
• He has his own business designing and building furniture and sculpture.
• He is most probably younger than I.
• He designed and built a DJ booth for a soon to open supper club here in SF and will likely be paid partially in restaurant credit.
• His aunt thinks he's a 'really great kid.'
I have no evidence to support that he has ever:
• sung karaoke more than once a year.
• cut out, baked, and decorated Christmas cookies from scratch.
• watched more than one episode of Star Trek in a row.
• looked forward to an evening of ironing at home.
• read, much less written at exhaustive length, about comic books of any kind.
The only thing I may have in common with my accidental namesake is that we both like beer, and I've just extrapolated this fact about him based on the soap box derby article.
Here's what I've concluded: this guy is a way better version of Kyle Minor than I am. It's in the interest of full disclosure that I present him here so that you, my friends can decide if you'd rather upgrade to the newer, hipper, and undoubtedly more-likely-to-build-you-a chair-as-a-birthday-gift model.
I do not seek fawning praise from you either. I just think it's fair to let you know that, when seeking to fill that 'Kyle Minor' slot in your social schedule, that I am not the only local option.
Posted by kyle at November 1, 2005 2:20 PM