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Wednesday, January 19, 2005
Tuesday, January 18, 2005
Fungus 1
A couple of cut-down tree trunks on 17th St. between Jackson & Madison have sprouted these elaborate fungus growths. It's a beneficial side to all the rain.
Sunday, January 16, 2005
Behind the Fridge
We cleaned under the fridge today, for the first time in the 9-1/2 years that we've lived here.
Yuk.
Saturday, January 15, 2005
Tony at Club-65
Tony's telling us about cleaning up Oahu after the tsunami of 1966.
"Every time you move the bulldozer, up comes a leg, up comes an arm."
Club-65
Mary & I stopped in on Tom at around 3 yesterday. He was in such a state. After dragging him out of his blindingly hot new office for the Neckface/Date Farmers show at The Luggage Store...
Neckface Speaks Truth, originally uploaded by http://www.fotolog.net/petalum/
... we took him out to Club-65, a Tenderloin watering-hole near his new office.
By the time we left, everybody had cheered up considerable.
Friday, January 14, 2005
Sombrero Fallout
Good light in West Oakland Wednesday.
This is outside the old "Bea's Transient Rooms" building across Wood Street from the old Amtrak station.
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Yesterday, I got
Richard Brautigan's novel,
Sombrero Fallout
from the library
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22/17ths of a Haiku
Wednesday, January 12, 2005
New Sofa with Ray
Peter E.V. Allen brought his truck over, and we picked up this BRAND! NEW! COUCH! at Cost Plus. Thanks for the help, Peter!
That's Ray there, regarding the changes to his kingdom.
Mary said: "He's shaped just like a
blue hubbard squash."
I can see her point.
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