I’m hot and when I’m not I’m cold as ice – Young, Young & Scott Pervasive summer fog punctuates another longish San Francisco stay, and by trip’s end I find my condition mirroring the area’s meteorological state: low, even, and not letting up any time soon. The flight is always shorter west-east, and thankfully so. […]
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Mean Streets of Marin
Sunday, July 26, 2009
I park my car on Bon Air, alongside Marin General and cross light traffic to the bike path by the Corte Madera Creek. It’s the same path I’d pedal to Kent School every morning in the seventh grade, and as I break in to a jog, visions return. There’s the twelve year-old Bruce Strahmborne (not […]
Coming Home
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
It’s time I amended a May 17th posting and observation that I made below. After attending a Mets-Giants game in San Francisco earlier this season, I remarked “The Mets may not be favored to go all the way this year, but they’ve got a far better club than the Giants.” Less than two months later, […]
Liberty
Monday, June 29, 2009
While I’m at this photo-posting bit, here’s one of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor, as seen from my roof this past weekend. It seems an appropriate image, on the cusp of the upcoming holiday. I looked the word “liberty” up, and among various definitions my favorite was “freedom from arbitrary or despotic […]
New York Sunset
Friday, June 26, 2009
A neighbor watches the sunset following a particularly intense thunder and lightning storm.
Three The Hard Way
Friday, June 26, 2009
Quite a day for celebrity deaths, yesterday. Farrah Fawcett checked out, followed closely behind by Michael Jackson. Soon after this news, a rumor circulated that the actor Jeff Goldblum had bought the farm as well, but this proved false. This was good news, both for Goldblum and advocates of the theory that show business deaths […]
On The Beach
Thursday, June 11, 2009
well this is no New York street and there’s no bobby on the beat and things ain’t just what they seem -Van Morrison There’s a lineup of old black dudes displaying their wares on long collapsible tables on the sidewalk beside the West Fourth Street subway exit in the Village. Old vinyl LPs and audio […]
Hi-ya
Friday, June 5, 2009
walk away from trouble if you can –Kenny Rogers So David Carradine is dead, possibly (but not definitively) the result of auto-erotic asphyxiation. At least there’s still one off-color habit in which I’ve yet to indulge. Thai police, who found Carradine in his Bangkok hotel, said that he had cords around both his neck and […]
Born In Time Out Of Mind
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
askin’ the cops wherever I go “have you seen dignity?” – Bob Dylan Thankfully, there are no time tables for musical appreciation. Somewhere, over the last five years, I became a big Bob Dylan fan. I realize, of course, that I’m not the first to lay mad accolades on the dude. I’d listened to Blonde […]
Notes On A Ballgame
Sunday, May 17, 2009
I was out at AT&T Part in San Francisco yesterday watching the Giants take on the Mets – the first West Coast game I’ve attended in over a year. The currently great Johan Santana was facing the once untouchable Randy Johnson. This, along with untypically warm San Francisco weather and a chance to sit in […]