I’ll be reading today at Green Apple Books on Clement in SF (or an exotic location not far from there, perhaps?) along with other contributors to the Tales of the San Francisco Cacophony Society book.

Get there by 6pm, because by 6:30 we may be heading somewhere else for the rest of the readings.

Here’s an image from yesterday’s SF Cacophony talk at Maker Faire yesterday…

Charlie Chaplin on an American tour with the Fred Karno Troupe 1912 (possibly in San Francisco) via chaplinfortheages

Great 1940’s street scene: San Franciscans queued up outside Curran Theater where Tallulah Bankhead stars in Foolish Notion. Via SFPL & tenderloingeographicsociety

My latest post for laughingsquid on the monumental Bay Lights public art project which went live this week. Check it out, lots of great video and images. A really exciting and fitting addition to San Francisco nights.

The All Worlds Fair is February 22 and 23rd at The Old Mint in San Francisco—I’ll be a part of making this amazing art event happen. Here’s more on laughingsquid:

All Worlds Fair, A Two-Night Art Experience in San Francisco

More great holiday fun on the very small stage of The Dark Room in San Francisco’s Merry Mission district: “Merry Christmas, Charlie Brown!” not to be missed! via oftenon:

Hey, uh, do you guys like kid-friendly Christmas plays featuring characters wearing handmade dresses (pink dress by yours truly)? Then come see Merry Christmas, Charlie Brown! playing at the Dark Room Theater at 8pm for the next two weekends.

Note: Lucy’s eyes are luminous on stage, but not in the same way as in this photo.

tenderloingeographicsociety:

November 28, 1957, Father Boeddeker carves a turkey at the (old) St. Anthony Dining Room.

vintage-y SF Thanksgiving greetings via the SFPL

My latest post on laughingsquid is about Long Now’s new salon/bar project. I’ve actually been helping out some on this project and have a lot of friends involved. Biased as hell in fact, but then it’s easy when the concept, mission, design and alcohol are all top notch. Check out the post, I got to share some fantastic new interview footage about the redesign by Because We Can and the special spirits being made by St George Spirits.

The Long Now Foundation Salon Redesign and Limited Edition Spirits

I’ll share another interview video here that’s not in the post. Dave from St George, as he grinds coriander for Long Now’s gin, talk about an artistic approach to distilling and the historical importance of spirits to people around the world.

Long Now Salon: Dave discussing the ingredients going into the gin from The Long Now Foundation on Vimeo.

Architectural clocks were a bit of a theme this week as I was hanging out with some of the UX/Untergunther crew who were in town to speak at Long Now.

They restored an historic clock in Paris without permission and without being detected. Some friends and I had the pleasure of sharing a few Bay Area activities and locations that matched their particular interests including the roof of another area clock tower.

I’ve been up to the top of this tower, too, years ago. Photo of San Francisco Ferry Building clock tower lit up via webuiltthiscity.

Just in case you hadn’t heard The Princess Bride Live, the ridiculously successful small theater show that I’m in in San Francisco right now, added 3 performances. Thursday-Saturday on Labor Day weekend.

All advance tickets are ALREADY sold out for the 3 added performances (as well as this weekend’s 3 shows which were in the original run). But you can queue up like an hour before the show as there will always be a few seats night of. But there’s a lot of people lining up for those. Get there early. No, earlier than that, if you want to get in.

If have tickets sit as close to the stage as you can cuz… it’s more fun there.

Above a vintage Lucky Strike image by an unknown artist via mudwerks & oldcarguy41.

Below image by Cameron Eng for Foul Play Productions.

Princess Bride Live! rehearsals pix from our rehearsal process on Flickr give a glimpse behind the scenes at how we built Princess Bride Live! over the last 2 months. The play opens Thursday, August 2nd at Dark Room Theater in San Francisco’s Mission district and runs through August 25th (Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays). Details and tickets at the Dark Room site and on our producer’s website.

Provocative and disturbing and memorable art by Mr. Ted Vasin of San Francisco via hifructosemag:

Ted Vasin’s “Poison Bliss”

Multi-media artist Ted Vasin’s blog (http://tedvasin.com/blog/) looks to be evidence photos of a person on a hallucinatory bender; a mix of electronic equipment, newspaper/magazine clippings, wires, medical marijuana, dildos, and art supplies. While that’s fun and all, it wouldn’t be worth investigating or mentioning if the end result wasn’t such a fantastic body of provoking art works. Vasin’s mix of graphite and acrylics creates a startling swirl of imagery, iconography and bursts of color. Combine that with his vertigo-like points of view and you’ll find pure uncut Vasin magic. I still wouldn’t suggest that he date your daughter though. Take a look at Ted Vasin’s latest work, “Poison Bliss” just opening at 101/exhibit (http://www.101exhibit.com/) in Miami.