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Up Grant Street and Labyrinth
I keep on finding interesting routes to common destinations. On the way back from Film Yard, the video store, this afternoon, I found a cool intersection. One alley between another, Pfeiffer and something (not on mapquest) between Chestnut and Francisco. Really charming! In a kind of undiscovered way (impossible since it is one block off…
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Driving to Civic Center
Ah, Jury Duty. It’s over! Notes on traversing from North Beach to Civic Center: – there are many ways to cross over Nob Hill/Russian Hill – many people, though they live in SF, drive everywhere – the observation above is not related to your income level – the parks in Civic Center are very pleasant…
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In the news…
The walk to work today was kind of uneventful. They’re still cleaning the Transamerica building. There’s some project of painting the sidewalk grey and after a few days adding sand (Cafe Macaroni is the latest). Some guy was getting a tai chi stick lesson in the park. It was bright and sunny with a nice…
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boycott norton’s vault AND bad translator!
First, walking to work right outside of Bikram yoga/convenience store, saw cable car stopped, and brakeman leaning out asking a small, elderly Asian man if he needed an ambulance. Man and woman were huddled on the sidewalk with a 20-something blond (turns out British) woman who is on the phone with ambulance. She showed me…
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the fan dance
Two women were doing tai chi in the park today- the fan dance. My mother informs me that there are many tai chis, with swords, fans, etc. One woman was really, really good. She could balance and seemed to kind of know the next steps. The fans made such a big noise (big, red fans)…
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end of the blog?
It’s true, this blog may change or die soon, not sure really. I wish I did! There was an interesting cloud pattern above Coit Tower and Peter & Paul church this morning. I thought of taking a photo, but sometimes photos reduce the beauty of something. You have to work so hard to get it…
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Two Random Characters
This site is also a kind of novel-journal where I make notes on characters that I want to include in novels. So these are the results of character analysis this morning on the walk to work. RECENT EMIGRE FROM CHINA A guy was in front of me and came down Stockton/Telegraph Hill and walked almost…
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washing the pyramid #2
So I took a photo and will upload it soon. Do they raise up the platform and just leave it there for a week or what? It’s been in the same place, I swear, each morning.
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Monterey, Sutter street
My ongoing doctor & dentist visits during the day compose the new commute, the “Sutter Street” walk. You go by about a million Academy of Art buildings. They have started renting out about a fourth of San Francisco. Lots of diminutive men and women in post-high school bohemian rhapsody, wanting to get into fashion or,…
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washing the pyramid
I have a 2 block hill right when I step out my door, and it kind of tells me “damn you’re sleepy” or “damn you’re perky” each day. Well today was the not so perky day. The sun was bright out, and … Wow I can’t believe I haven’t written about this – they’re washing…