One of the many things that Jefferson warned Lewis and Clark about was mastodons.

Last Sunday I went to the Sutro ruins. I never had heard of such a thing until my friend told me about them over lunch last week. So I went. It was sort of underwhelming, but I suppose San Francisco isn't really old enough to have interesting ruins.
























Tuesday I met a friend at the Palace of Fine Arts for a glass of wine. It was a nice. Looking on at the Palace and hearing of my friend's recent visit to Seattle got me thinking. The Space Needle was built for the 1962 Seattle World's Fair, and the Palace was built for the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition. Although the Space Needle was built in a time with better construction technology, frankly, it's pretty lame while the Palace continues to amaze me.

Talent is luck. The important thing in life is courage.

Book Club:
I've reread The Informers in preparation for the movie being released this summer. It's my second favorite of his books. I don't know why I'm so transfixed by LA life in the 80's, but I am. With The Rum Diary finally being made, a new Bret Easton Ellis movie and John Krasinski's Brief Interviews with Hideous Men this is shaping up to be a pretty good year for adaptation. I've also read Y: The Last Man vol 1 and Fables vol 3 & 4. Fables vol 3, Storybook Love, wasn't as good as the other volumns, but other than that, Vertigo does consistently good stories. Now I'm rereading Rules of Attraction, my favorite of his books, and reading Lucifer vol 1.

What is the most important element of photojournalism: Light? Moment? Composition? You are wrong. - It's magic.

Here are some pictures of San Francisco as seen from my friend's apartment.

I don't know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing — a noun. I seem to be a verb.

Three Sundays:
3/29 - It's certainly, officially spring. First spring bike ride. First spring backyard party. I was going to go on a ride with Tanya, but family called so I went alone. It was a beautiful day. I rode from Tanya's house in Mill Valley to Mike's Bikes. It's a very short ride, 7 miles, but it was my first in a long time. After that people came over for a backyard party. I made tabouli and chocolate chips cookies. Fresh, simple for the start of spring.

4/5 - It's been wonderful weather, but for some reason I'm nesting. I spent all day cooking. Cooking and watching An Affair to Remember.













































4/12 - Easter. Tanya and I rode to Mike's Bikes and back. Another beautiful day, complete with egg hunting and a large feast of a dinner. I made a lemon thing for dessert. It started as lemon custard in a meringue shell, but I decided that was too much meringue, so I went with a standard pie crust, lemon custard and a meringue ring around the top. I think it turned out pretty well.