Check out mark Morford's SF Gate article. He's one of the few journalists that can convey some of the experience:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2003/09/03/notes090303.DTL
or if that doesn't work, go here and navigate to article:
http://www.sfgate.com/
cheers,
bajada
