San Francisco Chronicle columnist Mark Morford was raised by nubile long-eyelashed callipygian wood nymphs and spoon fed dark chocolate and raw pomegranate seeds and 18-year-old Scotch until he could fly.



He wrote and edited SFGate's main landing pages for three years before becoming a full-time columnist, in 2000, via a strange cocktail of serendipity, sheer nerve, good timing, oddball mentors, and divine cataclysm. He has almost been fired -- twice -- for the contents of his award-winning column. He has also won first place in the National Society of Newspaper Columnists' annual contest -- also twice.



Mark’s writing and freelance work has appeared in numerous publications ranging from Mother Jones to The Sun to Bark to Yoga Journal, but not Guns & Ammo or Quilter's World, so please stop asking.


Mark’s new book, The Daring Spectacle, a mega-compendium of his finest and most incendiary Chronicle columns and assorted hate mail, banned pieces and related journalistic sacrilege will be published in 2009. Mark has also been teaching an athletic, rigorous form of Vinyasa yoga for nearly 10 years in San Francisco.


He believes in divine mystery, good lubricant and beautifully designed small European cars. And dogs. And trees.

Blog Entries by Mark Morford

Sex tape tips from Carrie Prejean

Posted November 17, 2009 | 08:14 PM (EST)


Days after Carrie Prejean admitted that she participated in a sex tape and called it "the biggest mistake of my life," seven additional such videos -- all "solo performances" have surfaced starring the de-crowned beauty queen, Radar reports. -- Us Magazine



I'm...

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Lou Dobbs Sex Tape Shocker!

10 Comments | Posted November 12, 2009 | 02:41 PM (EST)


The former CNN anchor calls a sex tape he made several years ago "the biggest mistake of my life."

"I swear to all of you reading this right now, when I made that tape I must've been completely drunk on some crazy illegal Mexican hoo-ha, high on some premium...

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Fear and Homophobia: Not Dead Yet! Thanks, Maine!

Posted November 6, 2009 | 11:26 AM (EST)


Did you hear the good news? Did you see the tiny, sad headlines as they crept across the Interwebs a couple days ago, as reliable as teen pregnancy in Kansas, as certain as bestiality in South Carolina?

Fear and homophobia, sadness and confusion have come...

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Enough With the Whiny Vampires Already

2 Comments | Posted October 30, 2009 | 12:00 PM (EST)


Would it not be lovely to think it's just about over? To believe we have finally reached saturation, that the rather insane, relentless vampire craze re-launched for the jaded Facebook generation by the ceaselessly twee Twilight series -- AKA "Oh my God, just shut up and have sex already you...

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New Coke Mini - Now With 36% Less Cancerous Death!

5 Comments | Posted October 23, 2009 | 11:50 AM (EST)


Attention, reluctantly health-conscious consumer who doesn't really want to change his/her ways or be told what to do by any goddamn doctor, government agency or do-gooder Michael Pollan-type health nut but feels he/she must do, you know, something, because it's becoming more difficult to breathe, staircases are increasingly hateful and...

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New iPhone app for fans of whipped monoglyceride!

2 Comments | Posted October 18, 2009 | 03:53 PM (EST)


Industrial food titan and noted purveyor of swell toxins for most of humanity, ConAgra has introduced a new iPhone app, aimed at re-introducing the joy that is Parkay margarine -- AKA whipped monoglycerides and soy lecithin and artificial flavoring and sundry nasty gumminess you should never really put...

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Interracial marriage in Louisiana: Tastes like 1977

1 Comments | Posted October 18, 2009 | 03:45 PM (EST)


Coming out of pretty much nowhere and taking the jaded media and the even more exhausted populace by tepid surprise, that adorably dopey, semi-articulate I'm-not-a-racist totally racist justice of the peace in rural Louisiana has said he won't resign after refusing to marry a local interracial couple -- fearing, he...

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Behold! Canada's Most Disgusting Export

2 Comments | Posted October 13, 2009 | 03:09 PM (EST)


Are you having one of those days? One of those moments where you feel like you've endured a simply relentless onslaught of negative news and economic hardship coupled to endless rounds of cretinous politicians -- all of whom enjoy fully paid health care on your tab -- debating whether or...

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Top 10 Status Updates on the New Social Networking Site for Former Bush Staffers

3 Comments | Posted August 10, 2009 | 01:34 PM (EST)


Tony Fratto, a former deputy press secretary under Bush, is spearheading an effort to create an online social network for former Bush administration staffers. - Politico



  1. Karl Rove Deep fried bacon butter salami cubes like mom used to make num num num. Shunned...

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Breaking: Paula Abdul Announces Alaska Gubernatorial Run

7 Comments | Posted August 5, 2009 | 11:25 AM (EST)


In a breathtaking Twitter announcement that sent shockwaves through all intergalactic space and time, legendary singer/songwriter/dancer, all-around American sweetheart and Nobel-winning cultural trend analyst Paula Abdul has announced she is leaving her beloved role as Most Favoritest Judge Like Totally Ever on the hugely popular television program known as...

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9 Nicely Insane Ideas for Fringe GOP Extremists When the "Birthers" Thing Dies Off

17 Comments | Posted July 28, 2009 | 11:30 PM (EST)


I just have one question at this particular moment in time:

Who knew? Who knew, in the wake of all those madcap Christian fundamentalists who ruled like drunken virgins over the Dark Days of Bush, who happily burned books and shunned science and hated on gays and...

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Michael Jackson vs. The News

3 Comments | Posted June 26, 2009 | 01:00 AM (EST)


Do you want to even compare? Do you dare even try? Don't you already know the outcome? Of course you do.

You already know which kind of event, which sort of dramatic happening, which kind of ill-fated death and historic melodrama we as a culture value far,...

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New Hampshire Goes to Hell

70 Comments | Posted June 6, 2009 | 09:08 PM (EST)


Surely the news is forthcoming. Surely, this time, the liberal media cannot, will not shirk its responsibility and ignore the shocking facts by pretending nothing's happening and all is fine and good with their scary hippie liberal pervert Obama world. Not with all these charred bodies and screaming kittens about...

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Obama should take wife to Liquor Barn, watch pay-per-view, fall asleep in drunken stupor "just like the rest of us," furious GOP says

7 Comments | Posted May 30, 2009 | 11:23 PM (EST)


The Republican Party was quick to criticize President Obama's recent trip to New York City to take wife Michelle out to dinner and a Broadway performance for a long-promised "date night."

"I think it's rather disgusting, his blatant disregard for the American people and their fiscal problems," former political...

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Gift Ideas For Dirty Contrarians

Posted December 7, 2006 | 02:12 PM (EST)


When you care enough to give smart kinky non-PC randomness this holiday season....

Because you have someone on your gift-giving list who fancies herself hip and irreverent and stylish and sexually unashamed and proud as hell that she never once voted for anyone who even looked remotely like George W....

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Lick My Silent Sports Car

Posted August 3, 2006 | 10:03 PM (EST)


How much has Big Auto lied? Take a drive in this four-wheel electric Orgasm, and find out

Oh my God do they ever lie.

All of them: Big Auto, Big Oil, BushCo, Pennzoil and Havoline and Saudi Arabia and crusty Alaska Senator Ted Stevens and the oil lobbyists and lackey...

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