RIP Harvey

An awesome straight man for Carol. I watched him my entire young life.

He taught me how to treat the ladies...Althought I am so much the opposite character as well. Like with my 'Lines...They just came one day'.

Super station TBS

Joey Day

I missed posting this on Joey Day. I loved watching this video on MTV back in the 80's when they actually showed music videos.

My childhood pal Unca Jesse celebrated Joey by attending this celebration in NYC. I wish I could Stow away in his bag on his NYC trips.

YEA JOEY!!!

Lotsa Good News!!

This picture is from the SF Dyke March last year. I had such a quandary about what photo or video to post today I just settled on a bunch of queer girls.

Kimm and I are quite happy about the California State Judicial Court stepping in and making things right for once. And yes we will be getting married. Although we're not sure when. Maybe if there is a hitchin' tent at the Dyke March next month we'll get the deed done there (that means you too C and S)!

Also our two very good friends N and M who both founded the Media Factory in Berkeley were just presented with Emmy's--YES EMMY'S. There's a picture of them on their site holding the golden statues. Awesome! The film they won for is called 'Sikhs in America'. It will be showing on PBS Monday the 19th (tomorrow). Check it out. I can't wait to see it. I'm so proud of them!

EMMY'S!!!

The Fall

I remember watching this on MTV back in the "120 minutes" days. By that I mean I remember watching 120 minutes by pizza at a joint near the dorms. I watched with Kris, Ken and Liz. Dreamed of Jesse in California and waited with baited breath for visits to SLC where I would buy something good at ??? What was the name of that store? The only Punk Rock Record Store in SLC in the late 80's???Does anyone remember? Near the RR tracks? My friend BYU friend Mark from Arizona had a sister who lived in sin with the owner...He had a "hardcore" show on the local station? U of U station?

Anyway, I love the Fall. I think this must have been the first Fall song that I'd ever heard. It reminded me of Redding in many ways. The spotty guy in this video is Leigh Bowery. Kimm and I are watching a documentary on Leigh as I write this. Leigh rules!

No Water

This picture looks down from our front deck onto our two water containers. Actually they're just two clean garbage bins. Lately we've been saving ALL our water. If we take a shower we catch the cold water that comes out before the hot water with a bucket. Or if I'm washing the dishes I'll put a deep bowl into the sink to catch the cold water there. Then we pour both of these containers of water down from our front deck into the garbage bins.

This water then gets used for the garden. We're pretty confidant that it will be enough.

WE'RE SCARED OF DROUGHT!! We already know we are in one. Much like the "Recession?", California is in a "Drought?".

In our garden, the two frames on either side of the wooden box are for beans and peas. Kimm read that if you build a frame out at an angle the beans and peas will hang straight down and be easy to pick.

We also have a brand new lemon tree-"meyer". (Second picture) on the left inside a round cage. Our cat Yuki was clawing on it.

We don't have much in the garden yet. Only Fava beans, beets, basil, lettuce and tomatoes. AND marigolds for natural pest repellent. AND if you look in the first picture straight down from the garbage bins past the green blob of spent poppies you'll see about 6 green starts. These are SUNFLOWERS which we grow every year and they get taller than our front deck. I'll show them at the end of summer and you can see them from start to finish. AMAZing!

NINES!

We just recently went to nine hour days at my park. This means that every other week we get 3 days off instead of 2!!! I like this.

Here's a picture of Sunol Park. Me with doggies. Sunol is an amazing park. It's the park in my district everyone wants to work at. There's a part of it they call 'little Yosemite'. You can actually get a permit to hike in and camp. We really want to do that but we can't bring the kids. Anyone want to babysit?

My New Local Faves

The Whoreshoes! They play some good ole timey music! You just can't hear enough good music like this in my opinion. They got the myspace page and the website. And tho' these pictures don't show it they all sing together which I love--AND they switch off instruments which I've never been successful at doing in my bands. Other instruments played but not shown here were banjo, keyboards, dobro and mandolin. And all hot chicks! You just get everything you want with these girls!

The gal playing bass is my neighbor and this tranquil setting is her backyard. It was a nice ending to a perfect Oakland day.

By the way..they do tour so keep an ear out for them at your favorite local bar.

This Ain't No Picnic

I love you Minutemen. D Boon is a Guitar God Extrodinaire!