Out & About With Will

Wasp Nest (floating mount) Windmill (print on canvas) Narcissus (top) Flowering Plum (bottom) Beholders and Speakers (Acrylic on canvas - 2013) 2-Point Buck in Velvet ( Eric Way 's trophy...) Five Palms (enamel on sheet metal) The Scarlet Blade . Dave Stewart's 'Jennifer' (found object, enamel on particle board)

Laugh if you will, New York, that San Francisco rolls its sidewalks up at sundown, but here's a virtual itinerary to a night you might spend (it is to be hoped, not puking or puked on) in old (just not Polk Street old), gay Baghdad by the Bay: Start at Toad Hall , at the site of the old, then predominantly African American Pendulum - this is named for a Harvey Milk era bar (verkligen, it featured, IIRC, in the 2008 hit starring Sean Penn as the irascible gay icon...) ...And if the line isn't putting you off (Waiting! I say I hate waiting!), get in to Badlands for a drink and a spin... ...Of *course* Walgreen's , at the corner of Ooh Girl & Fierce, ought to be on your way across Castro Street towards the Mission; always something needful there... Then, on the North side of 18th, Starbucks, The Mix (it's patio might still be serving up grilled burgers...?), and (lol, not pictured of course, the Castro Country Club - who knows? You and your...

Camp Tipsy 2018 is on for Summer 2018! Enjoy all kinds of hijinks come June 24 at East Park... (This is what the road from Stonyford currently looks like): Lot of improvement by the county!!! *** Would love to meet the good folks who've had to make their homes in sometimes forlorn downtown San Francisco offices and outer district storage units... My hunch is that they're typically superlative, resourceful folks whom somebody ought to make documentary subjects... *** Irises still in bloom outside the DeAngelis Government building: *** PSA: Toluene, formaldehyde, dibutyl phthalate and and other chemicals used in manicures can be harmful to humans, so think before getting your claws did! For example, San Francisco has about 250 nail salons employing over 2,200 mail techs who are primarily women of childbearing age. Repeated exposure to these chemicals can be hazardous to health and can cause reproductive harm! (For Bernard.) ***

Four pics of Ladoga, points South...

Vilkommen to my new blog, a departure from the hollow man . Expect pictorials and three dot essays... *** Some may say, "animal cruelty," but a rodeo is not the running of the bulls or a cock fight; any informed opposition to continuing this ranch and cow country tradition usually concerns itself with the dangers faced by riders and other participants. This year's Stonyford Rodeo however seemed quite well attended, and as of early Sunday afternoon there were no arrests of overly racuous or law-breaking types, and no injuries requiring evacuation to a hospital....