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Sean Hayes
I still haven't commented on what was one of the highlights of my summer. Sean Hayes - and the awesome free event thrown by Fat Tire. Tour De Fat, from what I gathered, is an event to get awesome people together to celebrate bicycles, bike transportation, good music, circus acts, crazy music and a fundraiser for local bike coalitions. ? I think.
It was awesome. Free - which is always a biggy. The SF weather cooperated and it was sunny. They sold $5 tokens for the cups of beer. There was leather stamping stations. T-shirt making stations. There was a woman making snarky cards, here too. Be prepared to be minorly offended but laugh a lot. There was a woman on a typewriter typing poems for however much you wanted to pay. I only had $.25 leftover. She still wrote me a poem. It goes like this :
September 26th, 2009
is the day that you
raise your hands to some
chosen tree and find
a true speech of XXX
thanks to offer up.
I will stand beside you,
if only in thought.
We were front and center for Sean Hayes - the sexiest beat up musician alive. We danced barefoot and it was perfect.
A few things I learned from that event :
Fat Tire Beer is even better than I thought
The weirder you are on stage the more people will love you. Let go of inhibitions.
I will pay $6 for a small potato veggie cake thing because im used to event food being so expensive, $6 seems like nothing.
You can do anything as long as you love it. You can. (deep i know. ha)
It was awesome. Free - which is always a biggy. The SF weather cooperated and it was sunny. They sold $5 tokens for the cups of beer. There was leather stamping stations. T-shirt making stations. There was a woman making snarky cards, here too. Be prepared to be minorly offended but laugh a lot. There was a woman on a typewriter typing poems for however much you wanted to pay. I only had $.25 leftover. She still wrote me a poem. It goes like this :
September 26th, 2009
is the day that you
raise your hands to some
chosen tree and find
a true speech of XXX
thanks to offer up.
I will stand beside you,
if only in thought.
We were front and center for Sean Hayes - the sexiest beat up musician alive. We danced barefoot and it was perfect.
A few things I learned from that event :
Fat Tire Beer is even better than I thought
The weirder you are on stage the more people will love you. Let go of inhibitions.
I will pay $6 for a small potato veggie cake thing because im used to event food being so expensive, $6 seems like nothing.
You can do anything as long as you love it. You can. (deep i know. ha)
camping and other adventures....
A few friends and I went camping the other weekend. What was supposed to be a day of canoeing in the sun turned into a day of fog at the beach. Our first attempt in Guernville was unsuccessful, mainly because they wouldn't allow campfires. Peace out!
The beach. Foggy, wet, kind of cold. Somehow my friends found a spot secluded from families and children. We woke up in the middle of the night with what we thought were bandit raccoons getting into our stuff. It serves us right we left everything out to get damp and scavenged about. After peeking out though we discovered it was a skunk. Im not sure which one's worse. Point being our popcorn - devoured. All our eggs which were in a cooler - devoured. Homemade muffins - gone. Ugh.
In other adventures I got a job! WOOOOHHOOOO!!!!! - more news about that later.
Also in more adventures. I carved 2 pumpkins in 2 days. This is huge considering I don't think I've actually carved a pumpkin since my senior year of HS. We did good. The first one was a pretty good (accidental) representation of Max's boat from Where the Wild Things Are. And the second was a sick pirate. It was the one where we had to "shade" the pumpkin, not carve all of it out. We used a stencil. It was fun.
Life is good.
I burnt my shoe/slipper on the fire. I didn't know it was burning. It melted. And girls like lighter fluid too.
The beach. Foggy, wet, kind of cold. Somehow my friends found a spot secluded from families and children. We woke up in the middle of the night with what we thought were bandit raccoons getting into our stuff. It serves us right we left everything out to get damp and scavenged about. After peeking out though we discovered it was a skunk. Im not sure which one's worse. Point being our popcorn - devoured. All our eggs which were in a cooler - devoured. Homemade muffins - gone. Ugh.
In other adventures I got a job! WOOOOHHOOOO!!!!! - more news about that later.
Also in more adventures. I carved 2 pumpkins in 2 days. This is huge considering I don't think I've actually carved a pumpkin since my senior year of HS. We did good. The first one was a pretty good (accidental) representation of Max's boat from Where the Wild Things Are. And the second was a sick pirate. It was the one where we had to "shade" the pumpkin, not carve all of it out. We used a stencil. It was fun.
Life is good.
I burnt my shoe/slipper on the fire. I didn't know it was burning. It melted. And girls like lighter fluid too.
columbus day
It's only fitting that the one time I am actually aware of the location of my parked car is when it actually doesn't matter. To anyway who doesn't have children, or work in a government job (I'm guessing actually a lot of SF residents) how are we supposed to know when holiday's are? Especially holiday's which should be re thought out holidays such as Columbus day. So, I go to move my car this morning around 8am. Usually, like when I have gotten ticketed in the past, there are no other car's on the street, and it is indeed this big dirty circle around my vehicle that is proof the sweeper has come by. Not this morning though. No one was out moving their cars, just me. Hmm. I was a bit confused, but I don't need any more tickets, so I hop in, grab a paper, and sit reading, and waiting. 8:05 turns into 8:45. Shit. A few more people come out, just as confused as me, one person with two cars having to move (ouch). One woman says she got ticketed on a holiday once, when asking a DPT official she responded that unless it doesn't say "except Sunday's and holiday's" then you will get ticketed. Well!
With the paper read, I was waiting, and bored, so I busted out my laptop, was somehow able to get a signal from somewhere, and googled, "street sweeping san francisco october 12, 2009". And sure enough, there listed out were the holiday's they don't sweep, it said, "Street Cleaning violations are enforced if posted "7 days a week" or "Everyday Including Holidays." Below are the following holidays :
Mechanical Sweeping is not performed on the following holidays:
January 1, 2009 (New Year's Day)
January 19, 2009 (Martin Luther King Day)
February 16, 2009 (Presidents' Day)
May 25, 2009 (Memorial Day)
July 3, 2009 (Independence Day, Observed)
September 7, 2009 (Labor Day)
October 12, 2009 (Columbus Day)
November 11, 2009 (Veterans' Day)
November 26, 2009 (Thanksgiving Day)
November 27, 2009 (Day after Thanksgiving)
December 25, 2009 (Christmas Day)
Now I know. At least I got time to read some NY Times, where I read a sort of disturbing story about 6 year old boy who got suspended for bringing his boy scout utensil to school. Poor guy.
With the paper read, I was waiting, and bored, so I busted out my laptop, was somehow able to get a signal from somewhere, and googled, "street sweeping san francisco october 12, 2009". And sure enough, there listed out were the holiday's they don't sweep, it said, "Street Cleaning violations are enforced if posted "7 days a week" or "Everyday Including Holidays." Below are the following holidays :
Mechanical Sweeping is not performed on the following holidays:
January 1, 2009 (New Year's Day)
January 19, 2009 (Martin Luther King Day)
February 16, 2009 (Presidents' Day)
May 25, 2009 (Memorial Day)
July 3, 2009 (Independence Day, Observed)
September 7, 2009 (Labor Day)
October 12, 2009 (Columbus Day)
November 11, 2009 (Veterans' Day)
November 26, 2009 (Thanksgiving Day)
November 27, 2009 (Day after Thanksgiving)
December 25, 2009 (Christmas Day)
Now I know. At least I got time to read some NY Times, where I read a sort of disturbing story about 6 year old boy who got suspended for bringing his boy scout utensil to school. Poor guy.
it's fall.
Do you ever buy trailmix thinking "this will be good for me". Nuts, raisins, and some sort of bird seed look a like. Two day's later only reaching back into the bag to discover all the little chocolate smidgens have somehow gone missing. All interest in said trailmix evaporated.
I will probably bring trailmix camping this weekend. There is no other food you can incorporate into all others. It's breakfast, lunch, and dinner. It's also a perfect boredom snack. You can organize all ingredients. You can organize by flavor, color, or texture. You can throw it at friends, you can try and catch them in your mouth, you can put them on mellows and grahams if you don't' want to buy an entire smores size package of chocolate.
I will also probably bring Pumpkin beer camping. Tis the season for fall colors, fall flavor's, and reason's to eat things like pie. I once brought an entire apple pie camping. I didn't bring it, my friend Matt hiked 2 miles through the snow with the damn thing so we could have dessert after our baguette and jelly sandwiches. We were going to cook steak but we somehow forgot there would be no dry wood for fires in a forest covered with snow. Yeah, we were in high school. Spontaneity won over clarity everytime.
Speaking of HS, Katy St Clair - the food, opinion, writer of all things interesting for the SF Weekly, wrote a humorous piece this week about her HS reunion.
I will probably bring trailmix camping this weekend. There is no other food you can incorporate into all others. It's breakfast, lunch, and dinner. It's also a perfect boredom snack. You can organize all ingredients. You can organize by flavor, color, or texture. You can throw it at friends, you can try and catch them in your mouth, you can put them on mellows and grahams if you don't' want to buy an entire smores size package of chocolate.
I will also probably bring Pumpkin beer camping. Tis the season for fall colors, fall flavor's, and reason's to eat things like pie. I once brought an entire apple pie camping. I didn't bring it, my friend Matt hiked 2 miles through the snow with the damn thing so we could have dessert after our baguette and jelly sandwiches. We were going to cook steak but we somehow forgot there would be no dry wood for fires in a forest covered with snow. Yeah, we were in high school. Spontaneity won over clarity everytime.
Speaking of HS, Katy St Clair - the food, opinion, writer of all things interesting for the SF Weekly, wrote a humorous piece this week about her HS reunion.
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