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Scenes from a Vacation, Part Four
It’s always nice to have a cooperative subject when taking photos.
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Scenes from a Vacation, Part Three
Saw this on a shelf in San Francisco and couldn’t resist taking a picture: Betty Crocker’s “Warm Delights” cake. A little water, a couple of minutes in the microwave, and you have a tasty snack. Like Patrick Henry said: “Give me convenience or give me death!”
In case you were curious, here’s a review of Hot Fudge Brownie Warm Delights from The Impulsive Buy.
We visited the Ginger Ninja’s friend from college, Jasmine, in Oakland yesterday. We took the BART to Rockridge station where I saw all this Valentine’s Day-themed chalk grafitti outside the station:
Having fun. Hanging out all day with the Ginger Ninja, enjoying cloudless skies, springtime temperatures and ridiculous hills. Did some fancy-pants shopping at Nordstrom. Bought Chances Are… and Survivor from City Lights. Ate some good Korean food and Cold Stone Creamery ice cream. More later.
The Chinatown gate on Grant Street in San Francisco.
Interior of City Lights bookstore, San Francisco.
Interior of City Lights bookstore, San Francisco.
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Photo: Bored Bears
The original title of the photo is Bored Bears, but I think they’re more relaxed than bored…
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The Police, Live at the Grammy Awards
Old fart alert: Yes, I bought the Police’s first album, Outlandos D’Amour, when I was a teenager (a too-young-to-drive one, at that). On a format that involved dragging a diamond needle over grooves on a spinning vinyl surface.
(For those of you are thinking, “Oh c’mon, record players aren’t that ancient!”, here’s something that will shock you. Natalie Portman had to be shown how to operate a record player for a scene in the movie Garden State; she’s from that generation that’s only operated CD players or newer devices.)
Even better, I saw them perform near the peak of their popularity in 1983 (when the album Synchronicity came out) at the Police Picnic, a Lollapalooza-like all-day concert series. The Toronto show, held at the no-longer-standing CNE Grandstand, featured:
- Canadian new wave act Blue Peter
- King Sunny Ade and His African Beat
- The Fixx
- Peter Tosh
- James Brown
- and as the closing act, The Police
Last night, the Police gave the Grammy Awards audience a taste of some of their live performance skills, which are still pretty sharp after all these years. Here’s their performance of their first hit single, Roxanne, which someone captured and kindly uploaded to YouTube: