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About Me

Product of the sixties type guy who has never given up on: music, socialism, having multiple people in my love life, and various related peace/love value systems but not quite the entire list.I like travel. I like cities -- my favorites at the moment being San Francisco, New York, Vancouver, and London. All of which I've had the fortune to spend significant time in. I like walking around in them, finding out about their food and their music and their people. City walks are a particular passion of mine. Paradoxically perhaps, I also like open space and wilderness and hiking in such places. Dislike: suburbs. :) Also I am a hopeless romantic.(Begin Sherwood Anderson quote.)The old man had quite an elaborate theory about this. In the beginning, there were a great many thoughts, but no truths. And then the thoughts began to coalesce into truths, and they were all beautiful. I will not try to tell you them all. There was the truth of virginity, and the truth of passion. Of thrift, and of profligacy. A great many truths were everywhere, and they were all beautiful. People began grabbing the truths. Some who were strong, grabbed a dozen or more. And then a curious thing happened -- when a man took a truth, made it *his* truth, and tried to live his life by it, the truth became a falsehood, and the man became a grotesque. (Sherwood Anderson, paraphrased a bit)

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Mostly just here to meet people I like to talk to.Because I am in two longterm relationships (one marriage, one long-distance relationship) I did not check the "dating" box on the myspace info. And you, my friends, are all so cool!

My Blog

Rare "corpse flower" blooms in Berkeley

A huge tropical flower that evolved to smell like rotting flesh.http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/ 06/30/BATG1E7EEQ.DTLThe wonders of nature never cease.
Posted by on Wed, 30 Jun 2010 23:35:00 GMT

Sense of impending doom?

I haven't started doing it, but I'm going to have to do some housecleaning and delete some friends. Mostly bands I added and haven't gotten around to liking, or producers of too many updates and bull...
Posted by on Tue, 20 Apr 2010 21:40:00 GMT

Teff dish experiment

Teff is an ancient grain preferred by Ethiopians and Eritreans.Having never cooked it before, I boild 1 1/4 cups of water and a coupletablespoons of vegetable stock, added 1/4 cup teff and simmered it...
Posted by on Sat, 13 Mar 2010 11:27:00 GMT

RIP Bob Biniak

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/03/05/ BABS1CAU5A.DTL&tsp=1Bob Biniak, whose daring and innovative skateboarding style as one of the original Dogtown Z-Boys helped revitalize the ...
Posted by on Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:58:00 GMT

spooky action at a distance

On the evening of January 18, a random impulse from mybrain caused me to set my myspace status to "love overand over" (that being the name of the McGarrigle sisters'excellent first recording), and my...
Posted by on Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:02:00 GMT

Haiti -- our fault

It is not America's fault that an earthquake struck Haiti.But decades of U.S. foreign policy aimed at keeping Haiti the poorest of nations in the Americas directly resulted in the level of fatalities ...
Posted by on Wed, 13 Jan 2010 21:58:00 GMT

Surfer dude takes on The Edge

Zuma Jay challenges David Evans megaconstruction project:http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-lopez23-2009 dec23,0,6520136.column
Posted by on Fri, 25 Dec 2009 19:57:00 GMT

personal carbon output

I went through one of these personal carbon calculators.If accurate, it turns out my household members' carbon output is 9 tons peryear, vs. a California average of 11 tons, or a U.S. average of 20 to...
Posted by on Sun, 20 Dec 2009 15:51:00 GMT

expanded Bay Area concert list

Dec 7 Los Trainwreck (Jam) -- El RioDec 8 Dave Alvin -- PalmsDec 8 Tristeza -- Blue Lamp, SacramentoDec 9 Tristeza -- Bottom of the HillDec 9 White Ra...
Posted by on Mon, 07 Dec 2009 11:10:00 GMT

this is just Wrong

Social Services workers impose junk food diet:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1232611/Mother- boy-snatched-social-workers-refusing-doctors-advice-feed-cho colate-crisps.html
Posted by on Fri, 04 Dec 2009 12:47:00 GMT