Brunch at Charlie, Wiggins, & Dillons’ new pad, the “Rhode Island Manor” in Potrero Hill. Finally some friends in the neighborhood with a kickass view – the one thing my house in the Mission gully sorely lacks.
Feb 082008
San Francisco did it to me again. After idling softly in the background for weeks, hardly catching my attention at all, today I got SMACKED over the head with SF’s endless nooks and crannies and gorgeous topography like it was my first time. February just went from nonstop drizzly to blazing sun and hey whaddya know, I’m on work disability leave with a half-broken torso but fully-functional legs. I love living in a place where a stroll through the neighborhood can be epic.
Jan 122008
Got some footage from Jay Riddlesberger’s self-DJ’ed bon voyage bash. I barely pulled out the camera that night, but happened to catch a bit of Riddles’ riffing on the mic – which you can almost hear if you ignore the pocket-cam bass distortion.
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Dec 312007
I’d already bought my ticket to the Anon Salon Sea of Dreams New Year’s bash when I got lassoed into “Vasty Rumpus”, the near-legendary off-Broadway jazz burlesque troupe billed to perform on the Cabaret stage just before midnight. Actually, they weren’t billed to perform there (yet), since the band didn’t even exist until early December… but a few rehearsals, a booking connection, and a promo video featuring leggy dancers (most of them old friends of mine – y’know, from my off-Broadway days) landed us the slot.
Here we are stumbling through Duke Ellington’s Night Train, though I suspect like most of the audience you won’t be too hung up on any missed key changes.
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May 202007
San Francisco gets high marks for its execution of citywide day-partying: Carnaval traverses the Mission, North Beach Jazz Fest invades 20+ bars, Love Parade takes over Market St and Civic Center, Blue Angels prompt bbqs on every rooftop, KFOG Kaboom is visible and audible from every vantage point and car stereo, Haight St Fair overflows into the panhandle and GG Park, Burning Man Decompression makes Dogpatch visible from the moon, etc. But Bay2Breakers is the one debaucherous day to rule them all, cutting literally and figuratively across the entire city’s topography and demography, creating the biggest, most-inclusive, and most definitive annual day-party in the city. If not the country.
The Ron Jeremy Explosion has tried to do its part to contribute…
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