Bear Bones

It's not always easy being a bear on the go.   And this time of year, the social commitments just pile up.  So, if you've gotten a little off track - our friend Peggy over at PHA / Peggy Hughes Associates has this easy tip to save the day, while still keeping your gay card for creativity and presentation.

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Six months ago, we decided to launch the Ultimate Bear Resource.  So, we launched a  Wiki.  Several hundred edits later, and numerous discussions on what is a bear and the true bear history - we cover everything from Bear Runs to Bear Music to LGBT Film Festivals to Bear Nuptials.  On average – we have about 1,000 visitors a week with on average 10,000 page views.  Whew!!  In addition, we have launched a Yahoo! Group to support the effort.  We have over 9,900 warm furry bodies helping out.  And, just to make sure we rounded out the picture UBR went on MySpace.  Spawning the Got Fur? Blog. None of this could have been possible without all of the wonderful support of all of our bear friends.  We hope to continue to grow this to be The Ultimate Bear Resource.  We hope to expand into multiple languages, so as to make it a worldwide resource for bears, cubs and their admirers.  So once again, we thank you. We also, want to thank the folks over at The Complete Bear for all their help and support. Have a very Happy Thanksgiving!! WOOF!!!

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The Complete Bear is proud to present its 1^st Annual Ornament Sale benefiting Healing Waters. Healing Waters empower, inspire and enrich the lives of people challenging HIV/AIDS through wilderness adventures.  

Get the latest and greatest from the Bear Blogging Community . . .

Got Fur?
Our online blog with bear announcements, events, etc.
http://blog.myspace.com/bear_resources

A Bear's Den
Multi-language bear resource along with the occasional bear ramblings.
http://abearsden.blogspot.com/

All American Bear
http://allamericanbear.livejournal.com/

BearBones - Celebrating the Bear Life in Style!
If you're looking for just the right blend of rough & rugged - yet sophisticated enough to command a table for brunch, The Complete Bear is for you.
http://www.completebear.com/blog/

Bear Zone
Pics and ramblins
http://www.bearzone.com/blog/

Big, Fat Hairy Living
http://thickslab.com/blog/

Bloghungry
Young bear eats in West Hollywood
http://bloghungry.com

Cafe Am Bear
http://ambearzine.blogspot.com/

Daddy Drinks Because You Cry
http://sunsmogseahorse.livejournal.com/

Dave White Knows
http://djmrswhite.livejournal.com/

Ever So Slightly Twisted
http://sfopanda.livejournal.com/

HAIRYBEARS (Blog)
BEARS, URSOS, OSOS, HAIRY, PELUDOS, CHUBBIES, GORDINHOS AND CHASERS
http://hairybears.blogspot.com/

HAIRYBEARS (Fotolog)
http://www.fotolog.com/hairybears/

Huzbears
http://huzbears.blogspot.com/

In the Thick of It
Strands from a gay New York City male nude photographer
http://www.woolsrake.com/thickofit/

Joe. My. God
http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2006/08/jmg-vidcast-1.html

KY Bear Fuzz
http://kybearfuzz.livejournal.com/

La Cueva del Oso Polar
La cueva es mi closet, es ese espacio de confort donde espero relatar historias buenas y malas de un fiel admirador de los Osos Polares.
http://osopolaroso.blogspot.com/

Life Is Such A Sweet Insanity
The life of two gay bears living in Upstate N.Y.
http://www.jpnearl.com/blog/

Mass Bay Bears
http://www.massbaybears.org/wp/

Mature & Bear Men Hideaway
The Mature & Bear Men Hideaway is a blog for all those men out there that prefer to see their men older, furrier, chubbier, muscled and of course masculine.
http://maturebearhideaway.blogspot.com/

My Existence is an Assurance that there is One Less Vacancy in Hell
Vignettes from the life of a gay academic bear
http://infobear.livejournal.com/

One Bear, One Blog
http://abearinmanchester.blog.co.uk/

Pelztiere
Für Männer mit Bart und viel Körperfell und die Freunde und Liebhaber von dieser Art von Bären
http://pelztiere.blogspot.com/

SF Brawny Bear's Blog
Our desire is to create The Ultimate Bear Resource. Follow the trials and tribulations as we take on this project.
http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-tmwvtkAifaQtm6YdHx3b.I_qX9Q-?cq=1

Some kind of beartino...
http://bearringsd.livejournal.com/

Spunk Daddy's Beard
http://wolfbear.livejournal.com/

Tags and Thoughts of Leathercub
http://leathercub.blogspot.com/

The Chubby Man Place
http://chubbymanplace.blogspot.com/

Tommy's Howls
http://winbear.livejournal.com/

UpBearWiki
http://www.upbear.com/upbearwiki/titiwiki.php
French Canadian bear wiki

Wild Bear Blog
http://bearsgonewild.livejournal.com/
Ramblings of a Bear Gone Wild

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If you’re in San Francisco or just visiting - Why don’t you come up and see us sometime?  We welcome all furry, little (and not so little) gay woodland creatures!! WOOF!!

The Complete Bear is located in San Francisco’s Dogpatch (east of Potrero Hill), just a few minutes down 3rd Street from the Giants Ballpark.  Our address is 2339 Third Street, Suite 21 between 20th and 22nd streets. Here’s a map to all things bear.  From the 1860's to the end of World War II, the central waterfront was San Francisco's main industrial-economic engine, employing thousands of skilled and unskilled laborers at its peak.

The neighborhood has a rich history of longshoreman, brothels, haunted docks, runaway cows, and the stockyards of yore.  Rumor has it - Dogpatch got its name from the feral dogs that used to scavenge scraps of meat and waste at the slaughter houses.  Well, isn’t that special?

Our offices are located in the old American Can Factory, which was built over a forty year period (1915-1955). The American Can Company employed thousands of men and women in the manufacture of cans and bottles for West Coast canneries. The plant was shut down in 1969.

Today, Dogpatch is a mix of light industry and residential.   We are located along the new 3rd Street Light Rail , which when completed will connect Third Street to the Embarcadero, BART, and the Ferry Building.  We are proud to be part of this rich heritage and welcome you to come visit us and our neighborhood.  Oh yeah, you might want to call first to make sure we haven't stepped out to Mabel’s Just for You Café - the beignets are to die for!

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Whether it’s a Partridge in a Bear Tree

or Eleven Bears a Pipin’ –

This ornament set is the must have

for the furry set. 

For all your bear holiday needs . . . 

Visit The Complete Bear 

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So what exactly do you call a Lady Bear? – Mistress of course . . .

Liza Sibley is the Mistress of Procurement at The Complete Bear.   Along with her business partner - Mike Doherty – she scours the forest for cool stuff for all of our friendly wooded creatures – bears, cubs, otters . . .

Whether it’s Ornaments for the Tree or a Denali throw for the Den – it has to get past the Mistress – no easy task.  She recently sailed the high seas – OK, it was Puerto Vallarta! – with over 200 bears on the Lazy Bear at Sea Cruise.  She was the one with the T-Shirts.

Liza brings a unique blend of professional and life experience. She spent 20 years being a homemaker, raising two children and three Guide Dogs for the Blind puppies. Most recently, Liza had been working in both the medium and maximum security county jails as a literary outreach and high school teacher.

Liza met her business partner when they were both volunteers for Servicemembers Legal Defense Network – a group that challenges the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policies.  

Born in Rochester, New York, Liza attended Skidmore College and the University of South Carolina where she received a B.S. in Chemistry with a math minor. She moved to California (where she always knew she should be) in 1975 to attend graduate school at UC Berkeley. She graduated with a Master’s of Science studying organo-actinide chemistry.

 Liza lives in San Francisco with her partner, Jody and career change guide dog - Espresso. She enjoys riding her retired racehorse, Utah Beach.

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Our biggest challenge is keeping the inventory away from the staff.  “OOHH, that’s cute - can I have that?”

I figure if I want one, you might too!! 

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