The weather has been so ideal lately that it should be a crime not to go out and enjoy it. So yesterday, after breakfast, we took our children Happy Hollow Park and Zoo. We’ve been going there since Neil was a baby and it’s the near-ideal place to bring young children in San Jose. It’s [...]
The Spring/Summer 2007 collections for several designers included turbans on the models’ heads. Here’s a turban from the Ralph Lauren collection: and another turban from Prada’s show: Celebrities, including Jennifer Lopez and Prince (at the Superbowl) have donned turbans recently, and a minor English designer, Fashion East, went all out and put some of their [...]
Since Peter bought me a mountain bike for Christmas, I’ve become an enthusiast for biking in the wilderness. It’s like fast hiking, which lets me go faster, further, but it also requires some new skills to ride quickly over ruts and tree branches and to spin around uphill and downhill curves. I also like the [...]
I recently finished reading Red Zone, Aphrodite Jones’ book about a brutal dog maulting murder in San Francisco in 2001. It was particularly significant to me, because I remember the story from the news at the time, and I often take my children to parks in San Francisco with off-leash zones. Much has been made [...]
I appropriated Kelly’s MySpace page as my own. Now, news reports may give you the impression that MySpace is a place where teenage girls post embarrassing pictures of themselves, and pedophiles find victims to prey on. For myself, however, it’s become an excellent way to keep up with bands I like. For years, I’ve been [...]
England has two scary female celebrities who go by the single name of Jordan. The first Jordan is heads and shoulders cooler than the modern Jordan. I only learned about the first Jordan, or Punk Jordan, at the Vivienne Westwood exhibit. She was a clerk at Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood’s Sex boutique, and became [...]
The large majority of visitors to San Francisco’s major art museums are local, or at least American. But I’ll often overhear the accent or language of a foreign visitor, which is no surprise, since I’d be visiting their art museums in their country. What I do find surprising is that certain nationalities tend towards certain [...]
Kelly is not really convention ready. She’s at an age when she really likes to pick things up, examine them, restack them (often in a different place), and eat a lot. Many of the booths at Wondercon were remarkably indulgent: the man with the tiny voodoo doll keychains was especially nice, and let Kelly hold [...]
Wondercon was buzzing on Sunday, and Peter had to work at the booth until 3:30 pm, so he couldn’t simultaneously take Neil around the show floor. We needed to get away from the booth, so I decided to take the children to the Picasso and His Influence on American Artists exhibit at the nearby San [...]
I expected Wondercon to be quieter on Sunday. I’d worked at the ComicBase booth on Sunday last year, and the last day of the show was uncrowded, though not in a deadly way. There was no such luck at Wondercon. I arrived early, but by 11 am, the attendance was in full effect again. Inevitably, [...]
