blowin' in the wind

 
 
 












The sky above san francisco has been dramatic and ever-changing. In these pix, taken in the afternoon, to the west the sun is brightly shining, while to the east, there are some big black clouds coming down. And windy, cindy.

Smoochy is afraid of the wind, and crys like a big baby when it's windy. That's why one of his nicknames is Crybaby. He also cries if u just barely, not even step on his foot or tail. According to HUMAN4, german shepherds feel pain more than other breeds of dogs.

No tour or shows or anything. Too busy crocheting a white shawl. Toodles, people. 

get me my green pants

 












BFF Rich made a lunchtime presentation at Stacey's bookstore 2day...he was brilliant (of course). And these r the pants he wore. BFF Rich was promoting his new book WHOOPS I'M IN BUSINESS, published by nolo. Took BFF Rich out for a celebratory lunch at Boulange de Cole in Cole Valley, after being thwarted at Limon on Valenica Street.

P.S. to HUMAN4: our lunch at Limon is hereby cancelled due to the owner being a total loser.

P.S. to BFF Rich: they called u greenie they called u green. i love u BFF. 

stairway2hebbm

 












All the wildflowers r blooming on the cliffs and hillsides. i gott ta gott ta gott ta LOVE cali in the winter. I remember being in michigan as a kid, waiting in 6 feet of snow for the school bus, thinking...hmmm, i dont know if this is working 4me. Then, when i got older and was driving my Jaguar XKE convertible on the freeway in the winter, and the car slid right off the road, i thought THAT'S FUCKIN' IT!!,i'm getting the hell out of here. So i packed up my bags and moved to Ocean Beach.

No tour or shows or anything...altho i did see that wolfgang's vault.com is selling an acc poster... for $40! that's kooky! ok yall...late. 

oui oui (new link added...le monde moderne...chek it out)

 












Just like jerry lewis i'm big in france, hey, i've sold some records there, they even ordered in advance. :-)

oh oh...not french. north carolina. well i guess im big there too. big enuf2get this nice review. x0x0 

dbl rainbow

 












Not visible in this picture is another rainbow, to the right of the one u see. It was more pale than the first one...maybe that's why the camera couldnt catch it, but i hope u believe me, there WAS a 2nd one. It was very red at the point where it touched the ground at Twin Peaks, and looked like a small fire, because it appeared hazy there, like smoke. Very exciting.

No tour or shows or anything...2 exhausted after astanga yoga class ..the instructor was like a drill sargeant. An israeli drill sargeant. A 100 pound israeli drill sargeant.

In sam framcisco right now, this very minute/second, it is fiercely thundering and lightening. Hang on, all u pets, especially dogs. (Do cats react2thunder?)
The way u love me is frightening. Think i better knock knock knock knock knock on wood. bye yall. 

i got knocked down, my head was swimmin'

 












...i wound up with the dean of women. Dont u love all the "speed raps" dylan used2 do?

i was sleepin' like a rat when i heard somethin' jerkin'
And there stood rita lookin' just like tony perkins

and,

i was shadow boxing earlier in the day
figured i was ready for cassius clay
i said 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
cassius clay here i come
99, 100, 101, 102
your ma wont even recognize you
14, 15, 16, 17, 18...
gonna knock 'im clean right out of his spleen.

Now THAT's rappin'. Am i right, or am i right? When you're right, you're right, am i right? that pimp "song" that won best song at the oscars was an embarrASSment. How lame WAS that, anyway? Pathetic. Sick. Venal. Some day a real rain'll come and wash All the scum off the streets.

Speaking of streets, found my Streets cd, Original Pirate Material...i still like him...IT'S TOO LATE is so sad. And the beats on SHARP DARTS...i still cant hear/figure out what the hell. Very interesting. He was on a bill with Luna in the UK a coupla years ago. Those must've been fun shows.

And speaking of shows, none for me. :-( 

content-free

 
 
  

memories

 












Yeah...white crosses. Remember those? They were these cute lil white speed pills in the 60s and 70s. Really tiny and cute. They were good for driving, hell they were good for just about everything. I remember taking a handfull to make a drive from lower michigan to upper michigan. And as i was cruising along in my little chocolate-brown karmen ghia, an entire metal structure SPRANG UP right in the middle of the road, good lord it looked like the eifel tower or something like that. And i drove right thru it. Yeah, the good old days. haha!!
Well, that's it for memory lane today boys and girls.

p.s. no tour or shows or anything. However, u mite like2know that dean and britta are finally in the studio with tony visconti, recording their second cd. u know it's gonna be so lush and beautiful. Stay tuned! I dont have any tour of my own, but i can report on theirs, if u'd like. Bye. 

just another day in paradise

 
 
 
 












No tour or shows again today...but you could play WAY OUT WEST while looking at these pix...

Justb4 the sun goes down
Along the sea highway
The hills turn pink
And everything...
Way out west.
And just b4 the stars come out
Along the sea highway
We'll watch the waves at the end of the day, hey
Way out west.
And a sundial clock is always
Always on time
And way out west
Is mine all mine.

Yup i sure do love cali. Well, northern cali i should say. Come on, take me in your arms, and rock me baby. Toodles4now, blogbrains. x0x0 

untouched by human hands

 












Ive looked at clouds from boatrides now, from inn and house and still somehow, it's cloud religion yeah you all, we really all love clouds real well. This picture not shopped. Just came as it was, as it is.

PLease help me stop eating this whole bag of Newmans Own cinnamon graham alphabet cookies.

And speaking of cookies, where is HUMAN 4ANIMAL? I guess we just have2hang in there...she'll be back when she is ready i guess. WELL FINE. We've nothing better2do than hit"refresh" every 10 or 20 minutes...

It's the weekend, everybody. Relax. Go2it. (dont4get2use your pill-divider...more accurate that way.) bye. oh yeah, right...no show tonite. thank god, ive eaten WAY too many of these cookies 2 fit the accordion on. Bye yall. 

pretty

 
 
 
 












Hello. Just showing u these pix... 

rest area

 












Here is the spot where i let out my inner couch potato. Features mags, phone, internet, books, and snax... salted peanuts, tofu cuties, maybe some peanut butter crackers. Not pictured is previously-mentioned biggass tv. 2nite's movie: Blow Up, or is it one word, Blowup. No, that doesnt look right. Anyway, we r loving watching movies on the big flat screen. Having no cable rules, people! Go2your window, go 2 your window now, and shout that u r not gonna take it any more. Isnt your cable bill creeping up? And Tivo becomes 2much2manage...tedious.

I think tv is mostly for sports fans. The only thing we know about sports is, there are fewer people out when a big game is on, so that's a good time2take your bike ride, without some butt-hole yelling "hey! can i smell your seat?" which actually happened 2 a gal we know as she was bike-riding. Uh oh, gotta dash all of a sudden...going to Pizette! yay! If u live around the outer richmond district in sam framcisco, and u like pizza dont4get2check itout. california street/23rd avenue.
No, no tour or show or anything2nite. Sorry(not really). :-) Ok, bye, love from pizza-breath corpus christi. 

this is absurd...uh, how's your bird?

 












Hello all u bird trainers. Here r some talking bird stories:
My friend george had a girlfriend named tommy. And tommy had a huge parrot, named tuesday, who loved pizza. Whenever the pizza-delivery guy would come up the stairs to george's apartment, tuesday would smell the pizza and would get all excited. But instead of saying "i want pizza" or something like that, tuesday would make flirty eyes with tommy and say " tommy,i love you", and bat his eyelashes and act coy. Also, whenever anyone reached for the bong, tuesday would make the gurgling water sound.

Another person, who is not very nice, taught her little birds to say "i'm a bird-brain." Isnt that mean?

And when this blogger worked at tower records in san francisco, there were vinyl records for sale that u could use 2train your bird 2 talk. They had beautiful colorful covers. One of the employees' mother used 2raise birds, and she used these records, and the interesting thing is, her birds would learn and repeat the vinyl sounds along with the words. So they would say "hello baby, want a kiss?" with the pops and hiss. Funny, huh?

Have u seen the movie Birdy with matthew modine and nic cage? A must-see. ok people, later! 

knock knock knockin on heaven's door

 












I see that smoking is not allowed in heaven anymore. That's good. It would be sad 2see a bunch of cigarette butts all over the place.

Remember that Psychedelic Furs song...i never knew exactly what ol' Richard was saying..."and heaven, is a hole in the heart"...was that it? They were a great band. I think i saw them once, maybe at the Greek Theater in Berkeley? or was that the Cure? It's all a bit hazy fantazey.

And speaking of great songs, if i knew how2send an mp3, i would send I AINT MISSING YOU to my lostie...I aint missing u, since u've been gone...away...i aint missing u at all...

So, no tour/shows or anything, but ACC's web presence is not bad, not bad at all!
And speaking of web presence, we saw a cool short-short web movie, KETCHUP HANDJOB. Dont u love all these cool free little movies that r available now?

And speaking of cool short web movies, BFFRich has made an outstanding movie, MY COMMUTE. Honestly, it is just fantastic. So arty and cool. That's BFFRich, alright! He's ALWAYS been arty and cool! HI RICH!!!!!! Bye, yall. 

biscotti anyone?

 












Here is some delicious-looking biscotti. Biscotti is a favored snack of our long-lostie, and she sampled it from different places during her visit to SF. We didnt believe her when she said the biscotti from Pizzette tasted like shrimp, but it did! Ewwww! Sounds bad, huh? It was.

HONK IF U LOVE PRUNE TACOS. I saw that on a bumper-sticker once. And this one: STOP HONKING! CANT U SEE I'M ON THE PHONE?!

Dinner2nite shall be pseudo-quasi mexican: "spanish" rice, beans, quesadillas, and corm bread (no that's not a typo...lately i like to switch the m for an n).

And in comclusion, go fuck yourself amtrak. (trying to arrange a trip) :-( 

this little light of mine

 












I'm gonna let it shine,let it shine let it shine let it shine.
I think i remember singing that on a bible school-bus. And, joshua fought the battle of jericho, jericho, jericho. And, rock my soul in the bosom of abraham. I never knew what the hell we were singing about.

Sure seems quiet around the house now that our lostie is gone :-(
And it's been raining ever since she left.

Attending an a.m. ashtanga yoga class tomorrow...kinda like boot-camp yoga. hup hup hup. Namaste yall, namaste. 

is it time2eat yet?

 
 












Eat eat eat. Eat eat eat. Mmmm good. Do u ever eat your dessert b4 dinner? I'm recommending it, because that way, u can have TWO desserts...one b4 and one after. And a little capuccino b4 dinner keeps u nice and alert while u r waiting2b served.

These pix were taken at il fornaio in san francisco, where, once upon a time, the actress debra winger tried 2pick up yours truly. I had 4gotten all about it until the other day when strolling with my lostie.
It was a beautiful day with the sun sparkling on the fountain at levi plaza, and the wild parrots of telegraph hill squawking above our heads as we walked up the greenwich steps to coit tower. At the top, we came upon a movie set. Johhny knoxville and (maybe?) mischa barton were doing a picnic scene (not sure if it was mischa because the actresses tresses were hanging down covering her face.)

ok, gotta go run 2 burn off the tiramisu and zabaglione. bye! and as human4animal would say: "stay beautiful". 

beautiful girl stay with me

 












Long-lostie's last day in san francisco...over the bridge on a bike again, in the afternoon, and b4 that, rode around crissy field/marina/fort point/aquatic park. In the morning, took a car-ride to the Conservatory of Flowers in GG Park. There is a special orchid exhibit there that is so well presented and thought out... misty and magical. Words cannot express, and a picture is worth a thousand dollars, and my damn camera's battery needed charging and i didnt know it. :-( so maybe if u r in the area, u can go there and see. so amazing and wonderful. Didnt make it to stow lake and the japanese tea gardens. Maybe next time :-)

Love ya, lostie! Have a great reunion with your cats. Thanks for coming to visit A&R. 

overwhelmed in north beach

 
















Hi everybody. Here's my lostie standing outside a gallery that was hosting a Beat Exhibit. She tapped into all the feelings and emotions and history that the gallery was filled with, and i felt my lostie from across the room as she was feeling. Many pix of jack, allen, gregory, and all the other beats...poetry books, paintings, posters, etc. If you're going2san francisco, be sure2wear some flowers in your hair while u visit the gallery, Live Worms. Sorry, cant recall what street it is on... the same street as the savoy tivoli. Until then, check out www.kerouac.com and the beatmobile, "spreading the spirit of the Beats across America". Itsa beautiful thing... 

what color is your trailmix?

 












Having fun with our long-lostie...took her hiking on coastal trails, bike-riding over the golden gate bridge, she saw people smoking crack on haight street (how quaint!), ate lunch in sausalito (veggie tostada), watched the parrots of telegraph hill documentary on our new big-ass flat-screen tv, and the weather has been fantastic the whole time. ok, hope u r getting2gether with your long-lostie soon!