Aquatic Park Photos
So this friend of mine (endustry, linked off to the right) has some great neighborhood photos. When I talk about Aquatic park, this is what I’m talking about:
and this is my moodier version:
Success and Failure Shopping in North Beach
XOX: failure. Will try tomorrow.
me: can I get 40 truffles
guy: yes, what kind.
me: (after much [...]
After travelling so much, and contracting a small cold, I am happily afraid of leaving my nest.
Swedish American Decor
In nesting, I am also slightly obsessed with Swedish folk art. At the Swedish American Institute last weekend I saw some amazing folk art done by one of the benefactor’s daughters. Permanent Collection at SAI- there [...]
Bar Camp Pahtee: Zeitgeist
So working in reverse chronologically, met up with some Bar Campers at Zeitgeist yesterday. Got to work my local mojo by getting this Viennese guy without a passport or ID by the doorman. I used the old: nonchalance, confidence, distraction and acknowledgement method. First, guy walks behind me. Second, I’m far [...]
Didn’t know neighborhoods had ages, but hey. I hiked up to Coit Tower today. It was fogged in all over the bay. The hike up the steps was a really good workout. There are just a ton of steps. I think I went up Greenwich the entire way. Crazy how close together everything is. Went [...]
slightly addicted to google fights.falafel versus burrito. swedish versus lithuanian. You know, basic polarities duke it out until the bitter end. coffee versus tea.
Reading Henry Dana’s Two Years Before the Mast, one of the best books I’ve read in a while, next to Bridget Jones Diary author Helen Fielding’s latest,
Olivia Joules and her Overactive [...]
Almost every sign, it seems, in Chinatown has the word new “xin” (first tone). New dim sum shop, new goods store. new doo-dads shop, new produce store, new medicine shop, you get my drift.
Why the fascination with newness?
I got my FASTRAK. Now I’m a speeding demon on the 15 minute (non-peak) commute from one [...]
Heading East on 80, the Bay Bridge, I can attest that I am finally not a crazy taxi driver. I drove through downtown on Montgomery and did not cut people off. I did not jockey for position on a single block three times to be slightly ahead of other cars. I did not merge without [...]
The new commute- a 20 minute trek across to Emeryville, along the Bay Bridge. I get caught in traffic halfway across and thoughts of Loma Prieta roll through my mind with little or no anxiety attached, believe it or not. I think we’re coming across the anniversary… have to look it up.
The city is fogged [...]
Fell in love with my neighborhood all over again. I love acting like a tourist. What do tourists do?
1) bought eggs at the organic natural health food store on Grant street. OK, not so touristy.
2) plagued the workers at Cafe Divine because they don’t open early enough goddamit. Then got some amazing poached eggs, toast [...]
I’ve started a new tradition (new? tradition? oxymoron!) of going down Columbus to the cable car turnaround, left at weird homeless aquatic park garden, then all the way out and around the pier, then back again. A new 2-mile loop! In the dawn it is really cool.
This morning was my second jaunt. I’m still fighting [...]
Shared an image: Lunch in north beach
Wednesday at 16:33
someone added a few veritical blocks to Russian HIll, I swear
Wednesday at 16:33
Favorited Gillian Welch – Dear Someone
Wednesday at 16:33
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