Kate O'Briens
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Friday, May 01, 2009
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
I heard Dylan on his radio show say this woman would blow my mind.
I do believe he was right.
I do believe he was right.
Monday, April 27, 2009
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Bumped for Boston
So, I've been living out of a backpack for the past nine months and waiting for an opportunity to return to Boston and gather my personal belongings and get them to San Francisco.
Last weekend coming back from New Orleans, I voluntarily got bumped from my connecting flight in return for a free round trip ticket to anywhere in the continental US. Single.
While I waited languidly in LAX for six hours, I started calling around to friends. Turns out one good friend was planning on going to Boston the end of May for a Phish show at Fenway Park. Call it fate, but he had an extra ticket. Double off the Monster.
Talked to my boss; got the time off work. Contacted a couple friends in Beantown; got a place to stay and the green light to get my things out of storage. Triple down the line.
Booked my free flight. Grand-f*ckin-slam over Williamsburg into the Ted seat.
Sweet Caroline here I come.
So good! So good! So good!
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Music from Big Pink
Like a phoenix rising from the pink styrofoam peanut shells & bubble wrap, my external hard-drive was resurrected.
Nearly nine months without, it's finally been reconnected. Hallelujah, I have access to all my music again!
Let the good times roll.
Monday, April 13, 2009
Thursday, April 09, 2009
The Long Now
SALT: Seminars About Long Term Thinking
From the Long Now Blog:
Sustainable cities
Mayor Newsom began with how moved he was by hosting the UN’s World Environment Day in San Francisco in 2005. For that event, which was called “Green Cities - Plan for the Planet!”, he invited 120 mayors from around the world. Days of intense discussion led to the publication of 21 policy principles for building permanently sustainable cities, in the areas of energy, waste, design, nature, transportation, health, and water. Cities, Newsom said, consume 75% of natural resources and are responsible for 75% of pollution.
He became determined to help make San Francisco the Greenest city in the world.
That can be accomplished only with a plethora of highly specific programs. The city’s renewable energy portfolio, for example, includes highly demanding Green building standards (LEED); conversion to biodiesel and the recycling of “fats, oils, and grease;” generous rebates for solar; and plans for collecting energy from tidal-flow turbines below the Golden Gate and wave generators off of Ocean Beach.
He wants San Francisco to be the world leader in electric vehicles, starting with plug-in hybrids and moving to fully electric. They have half the moving parts of gas vehicles and much higher efficiency. The batteries can charge in off-peak hours, and gas stations can convert to “switch stations,” where you simply swap in charged batteries in less time than it takes to fill up with gas. The way cellphone time is sold in minutes, vehicle charging can be sold in miles.
He would like to see parking meters used for charging, and San Francisco is developing congestion-price parking meters that cost more during peak congestion hours, and that sense and can broadcast when they’re empty.
To encourage urban density, which is inherently Green, the city is building more highrises, and California’s coming high-speed rail system will leave from the heart of downtown.
Newsom noted with glee that there is now intense competition between cities to out-Green each other. Portland, San Francisco, Manhattan, Amsterdam, Vancouver, Singapore and countless others vie in the quest for Green bragging rights. They borrow ideas and deploy comparative shame: “How can sunless Berlin have more solar power than any American city?”
–Stewart Brand
Tuesday, April 07, 2009
Sunday, April 05, 2009
Wednesday, April 01, 2009
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Monday, March 23, 2009
C
Cresta's
Just down the hill from Bachhus. Average run of the mill dive bar. PBR on tap and free peanuts.
Yelp review:
Neighborhood: Russian Hill
2211 Polk St
Sunday, March 22, 2009
B
Bacchus
A bourgeois wine bar in Russian HIll named after the Roman god of debauchery. Lots of lilies in the window; cable car passes out front.
Nice wine selection, although a little pricey. Good place to go for a pre-dinner date.
Yelp review:
Neighborhood: Russian Hill
1954 Hyde Street
1954 Hyde Street
Other B bars considered:
Bloodhound
Saturday, March 21, 2009
A
Amelie
Let's check "A" off the list shall we.
According to Ethan:
"It was a good place. Went for happy hour and got three wines for ten bucks. The bartenders have heavy hands, and the wine was good. Well worth it. Def' go back."
Website:
Neighborhood: Nob Hill
1754 Polk St
1754 Polk St
Yelp Review:
ABC Bar Crawl
My friend, Ethan, recently hatched an interesting idea. Here it is in a nutshell: From now until whenever, he will start at the beginning of the alphabet and go to a bar whose name begins with that letter. Each time he goes out, he will move to the next corresponding letter.
This came about because he feels like he frequents the same places every time he heads out in San Francisco and needs to discover some new haunts.
The only rules are: he must go to places he's never been before, and he has to progress in alphabetical order. How far he'll actually get is anyone's guess.
Now, you may ask why I'm writing about here. No good reason. I just love harebrained ideas and hope to document his discoveries because God knows I need something to get this blog rolling again.
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