Moxie and Pixley Wigglebottom (and Merci and Justing and Molly and I) had a great doggie day at Fort Funston this week.
Hole Swappin’

Super Worm Breeding

Pixmund & The Sea Monsters

About 5 years ago I decided to stop watching local news because of the paucity of news that is actually covered. Lately I’ve been skipping local print news outlets as well. So though I knew about the rampant numbers of wildfires in California, I knew very little. I’ll sheepishly admit I did not even realize [...]

California votes again. There are plenty of races and ballots that I have little or no opinion on. There are, however, a couple critical items that there is only one way to vote on. For those I offering guidance on how to cast your vote.
CALIFORNIA STATE BALLOT MEASURES
Prop. 98 : NO
By allowing eminent domain you [...]

I just learned today. I’m usually pretty keen into places and their history, but in a conversation with Robert Scoble today I realized I didn’t know. He did.
Here’s a picture from Mountain View to give you a guess

First correct answer gets a Dogster or Catster shirt of your choice!

I met up today with Ben Huh, CEO of ICanHasCheezburger.com to catch up and take in some SF culture. We hit the galleries and the graf and street-style stores in the Lower Haight and then took in the finishing touches of a 3-story LOL Cat mural painted by Josh aka Jazlink .
Fifty24 Gallery

Cosco Busan street [...]

Molly and I wanted a license plate that was positive, friendly and hip. So glad all the other phrases we wanted were taken.

digg story
Huge shout to violet.blue for the idea.

Northern California nurtures a wealth of blue and purple blossoms (a phenomena that has led me in fruitless queries for some geographical or meteorological explanation), but my favorite is the Pride of Madeira (Echium candicans).
A migrant from the Portuguese island of Madeira off the coast of NW Africa, once a specimen establishes itself, the [...]

The salmon population in the Pacific of the Wester U. S. is so decimated the Pacific Fishery Management Council has enacted a complete ban on all commercial and recreational chinook fishing.
This is not something that has happened before, ever. Since humans have lived in North America there have always been massive populations of chinook [...]

Tonight Nicole Lee posted a photo that got right under my cerebellum. I can only display images at 480px in my blog, so view the larger sizes (1024×683, 3784×2524) to get the original infection.
Here is the original (condensed to 480px)

Here are a series of 480px crops I took from the original.

I’ve had a friend that for years has been painting portraits I rather coveted. One day she finally said she was going to start selling them. Molly’s birthday was coming up so I immediately requested her versions of Billie Holiday and Holly Golightly.
Today I went to a show of her’s at the Sometime Gallery and [...]