The New California Academy of Sciences
Posted on November 11, 2008 - Filed Under California, Tech & Science, Video | Leave a Comment
I spent a day at the new California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. You really have to get there early to see the whole thing and have time for a lunch break. I missed the planetarium, but will return soon.
The California Academy of Sciences [2:16m]: Play […]
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Opera at the Ballpark: “Great Soprano Arrested for Possession of Thayer’s Slippery Elm?”
Posted on June 21, 2008 - Filed Under California, Entertainment | Leave a Comment
It is a night during which the moon rises within pie-in-your-face reach, wolves howl, Druids circle Stonehenge, a night when fans at AT&T Park in San Francisco stand to sing the Star Spangled Banner before the announcer yells: “Play Donizetti!”
Call us San Francisco “elitists” if you will, but where else will 20 thousand fans […]
Ron Paul Country: Mongolia in California
Posted on January 14, 2008 - Filed Under California, Culture | Leave a Comment
California is, for the most part, Mongolia. Erase the coasts and the canals that suck water from the north to feed Big Asparagus and whiten the teeth of Valley Girls, it would be as desolate as the steppes of Central Asia. Driving through the high desert between Bakersfield and Las Vegas I note two landmarks: […]
Read More..>>Hi Tack Tourism: Strolling Around Fisherman’s Wharf
Posted on December 2, 2007 - Filed Under Costa Rica, California, Culture, Gadgets & Cameras | Leave a Comment
“Oriental Art” Store
During a conference this weekend at San Francisco’s Fishermen’s Wharf, I took a stroll to get some fresh air and descended down the rabbit hole of tee shirt shops and tacky tourism. I have lived in or near San Francisco most of my life and never go to Fishermen’s Wharf…for good reason. Except […]
Dancing With Extraterrestrials at Hat Creek
Posted on October 12, 2007 - Filed Under Audio, California, Tech & Science | Leave a Comment
Artist’s Illustration, Allen Telescope Array - Issac Gary
There are events from your early childhood that stick with you. My earliest memory was when at age four my mother, in a rage, tossed out most of my toys, which I had cast randomly about the house, an act that immediately erased any Oedipal urges.
The second was […]
