Bocce Ball Courts
Not sure if anyone remembers the earlier post regarding how they are not using oyster shells in the bocce ball courts, but I do, and so for this travesty I inspected the courts. They look interesting. I’m glad it’s opening up this corner of the DiMaggio park and library.
NoisePop
Managed to get into two [...]
toll downtown!
From this article, I gleaned that my twice a week commute will involve a new toll. True, some times I feel like I could walk on car hoods the entire way to work. But for me, going against the flow, it will totally suck, unless it prevents lame SUV driving lawyer/finance types from driving [...]
I wish I was here! the warming hut, at the base of gg bridge
biking buddies
There is a strange phenomenon: people talk to you on a bike. I made a German friend on my really short 12 minute bike ride to the gym yesterday. I was angry at this one “baby on board” SUV that almost [...]
near Land’s End, the path behind Legion of Honor
backwards first!
Thunderstorms
In talking to my sister, who lives in an area with real weather, I noted proudly, “we’re supposed to get thunderstorms today!” Wrong. Never got them. Sure, the pavement was wet outside, but no big rattling dramatic bolts from heaven. Must our weather always be [...]
The new (to me) de Young, and SF MOMA
My mom and I went to the new De Young and was duly amazed, but I have these comments, good and bad.
- I saw it at maximum capacity. It was the first day of this crazy floral bouquet show, and every square inch was crowded with floral [...]
random old broken down building on John St. (not ping pong place) photo: me!
That robot-ping-pong place
For months it was closed, but now I walk by it and can peek in the door, and I see a big ping pong table. Last week tons of kids from school were in there. Is it a club of [...]
photo: Fort Mason
North Beach Newsletter
There was a pile of North Beach Newsletters in my apartment building’s lobby this morning. I used to love to read the Cupertino Courier for its Sheriff’s blotter. One day, a very special day, there was an item in there that would go down forever in my mind in indelible ink: [...]
Mermaid Lane
Mermaid Lane, Pacific Grove
It’s this long block near Lover’s Point, in Pacific Grove, which is an old Methodist revival camp down in the Monterey Bay Area. I love this block. It’s got that kind of hippie, seaside community feeling. I really, really want the town to have Hippie Day, which would be a kind [...]
Have You Thought of Dance? Or, in Memoriam: Gail Kelly
A famous Anthro teacher of my time, from my alma mater, Reed College, died, and I just found out about it. Her name was Gail Kelly, and she was a big deal in school, and, even though I never had her as a teacher, she is [...]
doesn’t this just scream Rice-a-Roni?
Museum of North Beach
It’s inside a bank and up a staircase, on Stockton at Columbus (the Chinatown side). I had always wanted to go in.. I’ve seen it a lot since it’s near East Wind Books and another new Beijing-style bookstore. The museum is cute. It’s got the vestements for a [...]
Shared an image: Lunch in north beach
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someone added a few veritical blocks to Russian HIll, I swear
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Favorited Gillian Welch – Dear Someone
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