As we head back into the city after a lovely Friday up north, crossing the Golden Gate and heading for okay Mexican food with sensational tequila… Oh San Francisco you’re so much fun.

Just a reminder that I’m helping get another remarkable SF institution started up: the Long Now Salon. An incredible design, to make a place that will celebrate conversation and long-term thinking. And serve incredible tea and cocktails. It fits San Francisco well I think.

Do you know about the Long Now Bristlecone Gin? The next 10,000 years will have a lot of happy hours. :) And, happy weekend!

Via laughingsquid: super awesome, a Composite Aerial Photo Map of San Francisco in 1938

Images of The Decameron which I’m performing in tonight and tomorrow. All shots are by me from a performance a week ago.

There are 10 acts each night. Amazing stuff. I’m writing and performing an original spoken piece each night, based on that night’s theme.

There are three more performances in total, through Sunday night. At the Firehouse at Fort Mason Center.

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.