Sunday, April 01, 2007

Shalimar
Lunchtime.

I was going to go to my "usual" Vietnamese place for some pho on Jones,
but this place right next to Dottie's caught my eye.

When I walked in, half of the peoples' heads were wrapped.
Everyone looked at me for a few seconds,
as though I was a tourist that had gotten lost.

I knew it had to be good.

They pulled out a spare table and sat me in the middle of the restaurant
as all of the other tables were occupied.

The stereo on top of the drink cooler was loud,
the smell of cumin was strong.

It's kind of odd being the whitest person in a restaurant,
and not being very white yourself
to begin with.

I liked it.
And sure enough, the food was good.

But I now know to chew very gingerly when eating curry.
Almost broke my teeth on chicken bones three times.

Shalimar, Shalimar, Shalimar.


Saturday, March 31, 2007


I experienced my first San Francisco event yesterday:
"Critical Mass."
The last Friday of every month
bikers from all over the city
congregate on Justin Herman Plaza
in front of the Ferry Building
on the Embarcadero.

At least 1,000 bikers participated.
Apparently, it started about 20 years ago
when cyclists in the city got fed up
with the road-hogging automobiles and protested
by getting together in a big group
and slowly riding their way
through the city.

Literally a traffic stopper.

How many times do you see a fish
with cd's for scales
swimming its way down Market Street?

How very San Francisco....


Thursday, March 29, 2007


So I made the leap again,
from small pond to big.

Just got to San Francisco early Monday morning.
David and I drove all night from Salt Lake City.
6pm to 4am.

Had some really great chats along the way -
just about the future and what we want,
how to make those dreams and goals happen...


I love our cross country drives like that.
Always bring us so much closer.



So let's see.
How long did I live in Utah...
End of 1994 to 1995.
Half a year there.
And then 1997 to January of 2006,
when I moved to the Bay Area the first time.
Went back to Utah at the end of April 2006,
and moved again end of March 2007,
but this time to San Francisco instead of Oakland.

This time the circumstances are very much different.

So that makes just about 10 years in Utah.
10 years of experiences.
At least 2 full lifetime's worth.
Too many memories to count.

Here's what 2 lifteimes looks like from the rearview mirror...



Sunday, February 25, 2007

Spoem #2

Those things are called relative,
which, being either said to be such, then,
are the different senses in which the term prior is which,
within the same class,
are separated by the greatest possible where they were,
to listen.

The lady scolded sharply,
the others
all cases that correlatives come into existence simultaneously.
The three than what is five is five;
nor is one set of three more
Yet it would seem that besides those mentioned there is yet another.
distinguished each from each by one
and the same method of division.


complexion of skin.
For the same disposition of bodily elements,
which Instances of discrete quantities are number and speech;
of wing, having reference necessarily to a winged creature,
and of a opposed within the same genus.
Those things, moreover, are
thus destruction
is the contrary of generation,
diminution of all Highland folk alike
for fine obeisances and empty sporrans.

dislodge:
in which case we should perhaps go so far
as to call it a add this condition because,
if that to which they are related is
other parts:
others have within them no such relation of part to part.
which, within the same class,
are separated by the greatest possible head;
but her comrades or I should say followers were ragged gillies,
All relatives, then, if properly defined, have a correlative.

the truth of the proposition that he is,
and if the implication exists the other should also exist:
for if all become healthy there opposite of the thing known,
in the same sense;
and the thing known equal or unequal to another;
number, too, and time can have these
designated;
if there is a name existing, the statement will be easy;
strong; and it was rather my disposition to withdraw than to come annihilated,

for the body is a perceptible thing;
and if the body does wine; a jar is said to have wine, and a corn-measure wheat.
The
virtue of which we are sometimes said to be such and such,
would be impossible to discover any distinct position for each.

This would have thought I had now all the more reason to pursue my common
Now the head, the hand, and such things are substances,
and it is
to be opposed in the same sense as the affirmation and denial,
for for me, after the moorland braes, the sea-sands and the still country- changes,
becoming cold instead of warm,
ill instead of well.

So it that is not a derivative.
For instance, the upright man takes his.
The term to have is used in various senses.
In the first place relative position to each other,
for each lies somewhere,
and it is evident that men incline to call those conditions
habits,

which mount.