these days of leiderhosen

The long awaited Flickr Photo Set: the First Annual Pretentiousville Christmas Pie Fight Off topic: c raving wild strawberries .

I was here during the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake . Although, it was a 6.9 serious rumble, caused some damage and collapsed the Oakland end of the Bay Bridge , it was a goddamn picnic compared to the last nine days of Haiti (7.0). I mean this literally; I walked across town a few dusty hours later and rode out the aftershocks with some very nice friends over salmon and candle light. How bourgeois . 63 people died. A couple thousand had to find new digs and a few -boo fucking hoo - quabillion dollar beach chalets took a dive off Opal Cliffs. Over all, we were really fucking lucky. In the theme of disaster, I moved out of state two months later and for years afterwards the sound of a garbage truck would make me leap under chaises and grab complete strangers. We were lucky, mostly because of the devastation of 1906 across the Bay shook us up (killing 3,000 plus) to now be preparing in earnest for "The Big One", which California drags into the headlines whenever news is s...

Plotting: Beef and Carrots ! Waiting to Read: The Happiness Project . Please don't revoke my cranky old coot card . (Apologies to Cat Mum: coot cards .) Weather on the Seventh Floor: Stormy to shiny clear. Amazing theater! Source for bad ass pound cake, especially the lemon variation: Dorrie Greenspan