San Francisco in the Golden hour.

When the sun sets on a crisp San Francisco day,

it stops to embrace the city as it leaves the world to the night.

The golds and greens of the painted ladies

  embrace the sky in rounded eyes.

Light shimmers into the coming fog as the sun trips into the Pacific.

Plans.

We did Thanksgiving at my place this year! It was so much fun, I had to share our "planning" chart...

Yes, we are a bit crazy.

(sorry words are sparse... Nutcracker and Winter shows have eaten my brains... so BUSY!)

Doctor, I'm thinking about starting a new excercise regime...

Really, just read this.

Just in case you thought your eyes went all crazy, here let me make that last part larger.

(I found this on my tea box.)

Production Values!!!

Dear Everyone;
When you pull the flag, shirt, or curtains out of the box, Please find an iron.  I cannot pay attention to anything you are saying otherwise.

Thanks,
Me

p.s. Yes Mom & Dad, I'm looking at your curtains too... it makes me nuts.

Occupy

I am including this web news clip here because the main stream media is skewing what is going on in the Bay Area, this seems fairly well balanced;


Occupy Berkeley is pretty much a few dozen people camping out downtown, with no threats of police action or evction, I had a chat with a few of the occupiers yesterday.

Occupy San Francisco is (by my estimation) a couple hundred people camped out by the Ferry Building, and the police have been pretty chill about that as well, I haven't stopped there but drive past it on my way to one of my theatre jobs.

Oakland is not burning down.  The police haven't been dealing with the situation very well and there is a group of jerks that every protester I know is trying to figure out how to stop because these miscreants aren't helping the cause, but Oakland is clearly the Occupy to keep your eyes on at the moment.

  The general strike yesterday was huge and peaceful, and the vandalism didn't happen until late at night.  So there you go... it's not as bad as the television says, and it's not just a big drum circle full of hippies, there is the full spectrum representing.  More info as it unfolds, but don't trust the television completely, they are peddling entertainment more than they should.

when good ideas go bad...

Whenever I see something like this it makes me pause to think about how many design meetings went by...

and no-one thought to ask;

"Hey guys, don't you think the disembodied hands lifting kids' shirts and skirts is a little... molest-y?"

(This window wasn't the worst I saw either.)