San Francisco has always been one of my favorite places to visit and revisit. I once declared it as “the only place in the West Coast that I like.” I know better now, but this wisdom doesn’t eclipse my love for the land of Ghirardelli, Haight Street, and that bearded Starbucks barista at Beach/Hyde that […]
Reading I’m currently in the middle of The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison and Yes Please by Amy Poehler. I’m thinking of dipping into Eric Gamalinda’s The Descartes Highlands for a bit of fiction. Writing A tinyletter and some travel backlog posts. Listening The last two episodes of BBC’s Good Omens (here). Three days left […]
Although I have a pretty massive backlog, I’ve hit a brick wall with my travel posts, so here’s an interlude. On the first weekend of January, Sarie and I managed to catch the last day of the round of shows over at Finale. I’m pretty bad at keeping track of which shows are going on, […]
OK, I'll admit it: this is going to be a mishmash of things that have been “casually consumed” in the most general sense of that phrase. So, instead of only ultra-specific articles of pop culture, I'm going to mention a few other things (you'll see what I mean as I go along). Ahem. FILMS Aside […]
We spent two nights in Massachusetts sometime in late September, before heading off to our next stop, New Jersey. I’ve been to Boston before (the same year JK Rowling gave her commencement speech at Harvard; I was there about 2 days earlier) but never on this side. It was a lovely side trip, even though […]
