On the final legs of a rocking trip to San Francisco with Lynette...
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I do like photo glitch art. #nofilterWhere the Fortune Cookies are made in Chinatown
Tin How Temple, oldest in SF
Riding the famous cable cars!
Lynette thinks I am obsessed with photos of birds.
I think I just try to make interesting photos in general. and birds are kinda interesting
bad photo of the sea lions near pier 39
Oracle Park, right across from our host Judy's place
Crazy with the uber rides
Beer Flight at Schroeder's
with Jeff and Judy at Tadich Grill, one of SF's oldest
Amazon has a pilot program of weird square vehicles called Zoox - with AnnaStatue in Golden Gate park
Bridge at the Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park
glitch art
View of the Golden Gate bridge from Land's End park
Land's End
The ruined Sutro baths
birds and crest poll
lots of birds in formation
crab at Thanh Long
Cracking in
Interval Cafe is a part of the interesting Long Now Project
The Palace of the Arts is beautiful and breathtaking
So's Lynette!
Palace of the Arts was made with SF literally rebuilding itself after the quake
gulls and golden gate near Crissy Field
Pelicans!
Roofdeck near Oracle Park
Oracle Park is really well designed, our seats had a great view
It was Pokemon night - the Pokemon Wolrd Championships are in town by chance.
with a drone show
Visiting Judy at Pinterest offices
Feeling crabby
An auto race at the Musee Mechanique
Climbing Nob Hill was a hike
"Don't be that way. Soon we'll be old and ugly. Life is short, you know? Die young and leave a beautiful corpse. Who said that?"
"Someone who liked fucking corpses."
And that was exactly what I wanted--my emotions passing like headlights that shine softly through a window, sweep past me, illuminate something vaguely familiar, then fade and leave me in the dark again.
Listen: what this means is that in honor of Tim Curry and Dolly Parton we have to be gaudier and kinder than ever before. That's what the world needs most of all. Get out there and be yourself.
At the GLBT Historical Society Museum, Fe-Be's "Leather David" by Mike CaffeeAlso remnants of the original Pride flagNear Harvey Milk Square, they have what they say is the world's largest pride flag (not shown to scale well)Castro distictWe checked out some of the street art in The MissionCool store "Paxton Gate" - lots of naturalist and taxidermy curiosities.hit the bar True Laureland Trick Dog - they currently have a fun old school WWF theme.
We also ran into "Lost Resort" where they had the Lil Wayne line "Real G's / move in silence / like lasagna" - took me a second to realize the joke is more linguistic than linguini.
Real G's / move in silence / like lasagna
They had a billoard w/ this lyric at Last Resort bar in SF - took me a second to realize the joke is more linguistic than linguini.
On the Ferry to San Francisco!statue near the Ferry Building...The self-driving Waymo cars are creepy as heck.Cupid Bow scultpureRandom street artWe took Filbert Steps up to Colt tower... there were...a lot of steps.Flower on the wayMore flowers on the wayview of the city from Colt TowerThe famous zigzag Lombard StAlcatrazNo where but up even when you're at the top.Well, back downWalking through ChinatownAmazon trying to get in on self-driving microbus taxis, "Zoox"The Cable Car museum surrounds the working powerhouse that is spinning the massive wheels pulling steel cables that the cable cars are grabbing onto to go up and down the streets! Amazing old school technology.Rawr. We also had a nice tea tasting at Vital Leaf and got some Milky Oolong.Fans of Emperor Norton's Stationary Marching Band should check out the Comstock Salloon, where there's the only public statue in honor.Prohibition Coffee at Tascaat Specs' Twelve Adler Museum Cafe...Nothing like a good bookstore and City Lights is one if the bestJack Kerouac alleyVesuvia - we happen to run into Jack Yaghubian of Fast Cheap and Easy graphics who is showing on the walls, cool images putting Vance and Hegseth through a Mighty Mouse and Yosemite Sam lens.w/ our host Judy and Dessert at Stella'sMuni station had some cool papercut style art.
The afformentioned art of Jack Yaghubian of Fast Cheap and Easy graphics
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When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means the sun is about to set.
What's your favourite toxic heavy metal? For most of us, it's gotta be lead. Sure, it's a pretty common one, but just because it's popular doesn't mean it's bad. All four of the osmium lovers are busy telling the six or seven bismuth types that they are the real aesthetes of dangerous elements. That disagreement turns into a bar brawl so small that they don't even call the cops. Meanwhile, Leadcon 2026? Sold the fuck out, baybee.
My personal fascination with lead started in the same place it did for many of you. Chewing on lead paint as a baby. Widely available, easily approachable, and comforting to return to after a long, hard day of sucking on your thumb and crawling aimlessly. As I matured, lead was still a part of my life. Plumbing solder. Electrical solder. Auto body repair. Gasoline.
Yes, it felt like Pb would always be there for me. And then the government intervened. Suddenly, it was "not cool" to have lead paint. Drinking-water pipes started getting made out of plastic or the inferior copper – which is probably just as bad for you, the scientists just haven't figured out how yet – and worst of all, lead body repair gave way to the hateful Bondo.
"Premium unleaded," sneered the man-about-town, unaware of the oxymoron.
I still think we made out better than all the arsenic fans. Lead can still be easily acquired from any number of reputable online warehouses. Sometimes it's even a surprise. You'll bite down on some modern child's toy and get that familiar tang on your tongue again. Undeclared lead is the sweetest lead of all.
