credit to here Post Holiday Blues In my world this is manifested by a video-athon. Three years ago it was Flambards, the pretty much unknown British TV series from the 80s, depicting a young heiress’ life in late victorian to modern period. She was into horses. Then, two years ago it was the DVD comedy […]

credit to john curley Two Hills In the super festive pre-NYE revelry, I was hanging out in several establishments on Van Ness and Polk corridor, near Sutter street. Hemlock, Cav, Route 101… and decided, despite the rain and the fact that my umbrella was broken beyond repair, to walk home. So the walk from that […]

Proverbs Commonly Attributed to Chinese Chinese Proverbs This train of clicking around and browsing started when I told someone “long time no see,” which a teacher had told me is good Chinese grammar. I think it’s a literal translation of the Chinese characters, but a bad translation into English. In English, I would say, “It’s […]

New Year’s Wind-Up To treat it as amateur night, or to frolick with the bridge and tunnelers, this is the question. I have never really participated in the much vaulted large black and white party. The most I’ve ever really made a big deal about new year’s was going to a famous guy’s house in […]

My nephew got a cool Weather Station from my parents this Xmas. We set it up on the back porch down in Monterey and watched it as a storm front made its preparations. The station has a little four armed wind thing that spins around. It was intermittent, which was kind of interesting for all […]

My nephew got a cool Weather Station from my parents this Xmas. We set it up on the back porch down in Monterey and watched it as a storm front made its preparations. The station has a little four armed wind thing that spins around. It was intermittent, which was kind of interesting for all […]

I went out on errands yesterday and forgot to bring any form of head cover. It was middling to slightly drizzly so I just had permanently wet hair the entire time. There are a lot of covered walkways in San Francisco, especially on my walk, down Columbus to the Embarcadero centers, which are all covered. […]

Unseasonable greetings Gusty, drenching storm snarls traffic, knocks out power So I’ve lived almost all my life in the San Francisco Bay Area. I spent 4 years in the rainiest seasons of Portland, Oregon, a town that is rainier than Seattle. My most unpleasant memory of Portland, besides opening my sweater drawer to mold, is […]

I’ve done one re-cognizance visit, and I’ve done another with small family in tow. These are my recommendations: – park in the neighborhood you want to end up in, for our situation that was fisherman’s wharf/north beach, then take the cable car. – the cable car is super fun. The powell-hyde route is the funnest, […]

Idea blatantly stolen from Kim, par for the course. – the new bound version of Two Years Before The Mast by Richard Henry Dana. I have seen this advertisement a gazillion times! Stop already! – anything with a cable car on it. – the extended mix of Holiday Inn by Chiggy – “country bear” motif […]