Kitted Up

The Söderberg sisters, Johanna and Klara, do a favor for the Fleet Foxes tune “Tiger Mountain Peasant Song” from the echoing halls of a Swedish forest. They call themselves First Aid Kit. This song was recorded in the morning.
Thanks to Lady Bronwen for playing it for me.

Eat It Up

Please join me in fixating on the creamsicle melding of yellows, oranges, and pink elephant pinks happily achieved in Luren Jenison’s Bootsock Wall Painting (and then digitally moseying ourselves over to purchase a handmade Warsaw tote featuring Luren’s lovely quilt pattern canvas.)

Indeed So

Lisa’s auntie Gyöngy Laky has a fantastic eco-typography show called Common Sense up at the b. sakata garo gallery at this time, through April 4th. Worth the tip across town, and some.

Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guébrou

This perfect music was made by an Ethiopian nun by the name of Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guébrou. She was born in 1923 to an aristocratic family of intellectuals and spent her childhood in foreign boarding schools and in exile in France, Italy, and ultimately Cairo, where she was finally able to receive [...]

Salty Dogging It, All Happy, Through The Sunset

Yesterday Lisa and I took a morning vacation to the Outer Sunset to visit the outcropping of inspiring shops and foodie halls coming up two blocks in from the ocean on Judah Street. It is a peaceful, beachy village amid our jumble of a city, well-served by its constant blanket of fog, with a tight-knit [...]

Anomorata Pyraglyph

Thank you, The Jejune Institute. We found your postcard upstairs on our hall.The emergent leader Octavio Coleman, Esquire in 1974.

Cuerva & Whitey roaming the Moonlight Menagerie grounds.

Coffee Bar Trunk Show

Coffee Bar and Gravel & Gold invite you to a TRUNK SHOW featuring vintage and local handmade wares from G&G, mittenmaker, Miss Velvet Cream, and Puff Yea! Also DJ afternoon dance party, drink specials, food snacks, and intimate downlow from some very rad ladies. It will take place this Sunday, March 15th from 3 in [...]

Corn Cheese & Firewood Tips

Late night snack & read. Thanks Sean!

Hot Teeket

Gonna be a load of dancing at Lobot Gallery tonight, Wednesday March 11th, from 8 post meridiem on into night: Hottub plus Romanteek
Plus plus, treats we like from:
DJ Don’t Tell Mom
Dang Mama
Johnny One Time
and
Big Dix

Food Chain

Here’s Sam Murch manning up to the death dangle in preparation for last night’s dinner—fresh, local Dungeness crabs.

Two Skulls Are Better Than One

It takes a special someone to go for two of these puppies on the same hand and Jimmy Carton is that one. On his middle finger is the real deal—a silver pirate’s ring from the 1800’s. Ruby eyes, of course. On the pointer finger, a 24K gold cast of the same ring. The baby blues [...]

Sleepwalk/Run/Crash

I’ll just come right out and admit that I am one who talks in her sleep. I have been told many times by family and friends that after my teeth begin to chatter, signaling that I have fallen asleep, I move on to downright verbal chatter. Of course, the worry is that I [...]

Mission Street Food: South Carolina BBQ

Mission Street Food is a rad foodie project begun by Anthony Myint, former lead line chef at Bar Tartine. Anthony started out last October, serving delicious fancy food once a week out of a subletted taco truck, The Antojitos San Miguel, on Mission Street. With minimal overhead cost, Anthony was able to cook for all [...]

Must to Hear

YES!
The musical happening that was hatched by our New Year’s bonfire is taking flight through the Bay Area this coming weekend. Meara down from Bo! Neal down from Portland! Our very own Sean! Fletcher and Spencer! Marc! Aaron up in Nevada City! And more thrilling folks playing exciting new music. Oh. My. Bountiful goodness. Hope [...]

Yikes! Kittens & Babies

Miss Maddie Kelly providing narration for Kittens, inspired by kittens:

I am not immune to this meme’s mighty power—cracks me up. It’s right up there with the Charlie Bit Me situation, which has been viewed close to 85 million times to date. I believe our household has contributed a solid chunk to [...]

Illustrative Dance Moves, Etc.

The Fleetwood Mac situation that went down the other night was amazing. I ran into so many smiling faces afterward, all saying it was the best show they’d been to in as long as they could remember. I heartily agree and want to offer my thanks to everyone who took part and organized (Marc in [...]

Exposures

Exposure, singular.

Double exposed.

So John Donne got it wrong in Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, Meditation XVII:

All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated….No man is an island, entire [...]

You Shouldn’t Let Poets Lie to You

Björk Guðmundsdóttir bravely elucidates the enchanted television forest whilst wearing two wristwatches.

Inpiration Sandwich

Courtesy of Dereck Henderson (we’ll always have New Zealand), another Dereck Henderson, the collective sheds shacks and huts effort, and Lisa on a walk toward the upper Mesa.

Forlorn Chinese Zodiac Clepsydra Animals Non-Paying Scandal Hooray

Three cheers for the latest hoodwinking of the tension-fraught art auction universe! The objects this time are a lovely pair of rat and rabbit bronzes dating from 1750 that were once part of a 12-animal water-clock fountain corresponding to the Chinese zodiac at the imperial Summer Palace. The bronzes were first stolen in the course [...]