"It makes cycle traffic more fluid and avoids bunching up cyclists when the traffic lights go green for motorists," said municipal authorities. read more

Games with Golden State tend to generate amazing numbers, and this one was no exception: David Lee pulled off a … read more

Along with what seems like the rest of the country, I too have been watching Masterpiece Theater’s Downton Abbey.  I really liked the first season and was anxious for the second season to begin.  Strangely, I have found the second season to be wei... read more

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linkIf you were watching the Super Bowl on Sunday, chances are you saw this video. Made by the Chrysler Corporation, it features Clint Eastwood using football allegories "It's halftime in America" and so on. My initial impression was that I liked ... read more

Will someone PLEASE have a talk with Rachel? Because she simply won’t listen to us.   Rachel McAdams attends the premiere of “The Vow” in Los Angeles in Vivienne Westwood. That dress looks amazing on her, she’s sporting some gorgeous jewelry and h... read more

I am starting a new feature on the blog. I hope it will serve me manifold: that it will impart a little more structure into my oh-so-random-blog, and that it will give me an opportunity to share some of the strange and fleeting notions that enter ... read more

Super Burro Bowl One did not get off to a great start.Lucy immediately got a 5-yard penalty for offsides...... then Alan took advantage of her mistake and ran for a first down.The ball exchanged hands mouths throughout the first quarter.Lucy: I ha... read more

We saw the sun this weekend. The SUN! That warming thing in the sky!? WE SAW IT! It's REAL! Once the low, thick ceiling of cloud has lifted off our tremendous city, the sky becomes immeasurably high. Instead of flat white, you look up and see a d... read more

Little Known Ryan Gosling Fact: While Ryan Gosling is to silent stares what Captain Kirk was to strategically torn Starfleet uniforms, people don’t realize how close the new Hollywood heartthrob came to losing the part of “Driver” (the quiet... read more

We finally got to taste our New Years Ale this weekend. We were a little worried about it carbonating because we had a hard time getting the honey to incorporate before bottling. But as you can see, that wasn't a problem at all. The beer tastes wo... read more

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This is Bossy dancing down yet another Soul Train Line at a blog conference in Chicago five years ago. read more

Today would have been a perfect beach like day IF it was July.  However, it’s February in Bakersfield.  I need some cold weather to kill the bugs, rain in the garden to settle the dust and clear the air, and snow in the mountains to use ... read more

I just noticed that a blogger whose blog I read every so often is going to be featured in a book. No sooner had I read this than I turned green with envy and got all ga ga eyed. A … Continue reading → read more

Loft 1513 on Church Street A prime empty retail space on 24th St has filled quickly: A sign in the former Urban Nest storefront announces Loft 1513's move from 1513 Church St. to to 3927 24th Street. The sign reads: LOFT 1513 is a new kind of Bou... read more

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When we make a good dish, but I don't really have enough for a blog post, I often post a picture on twitter instead. For those of you who don't follow along with those tweets, I figured I'd do a round-up of some of the pictures here on the blog. ... read more

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Besides that little patch of rain the other week most of our days have looked pretty much exactly like the above, sunny and beautiful. It’s hard to believe it’s not spring. I think the plants are having a hard time … Continue reading →... read more

Returning is only over when you are back at a place you recognise as home, waking up in a bed that remembers how you like to spread out at night, for more than a week. By that yardstick, I’ll be home on Wednesday and you will get delicious audiovi... read more

Chuck Pfarrer will be speaking at Embry-Riddle in Daytona Beach, Florida, as part of the Aeronautical University’s President’s Speaker Series. Delivered through 90-minute presentations, the Speaker Series seeks to engage the student body, the camp... read more

On Monday, we were all scheduled to leave, some by plane, some by car, and some by train. We were staying on the East Side, so with the short time we had left, some of us whipped over to the MoMa, and had a quick trip through. There is always so m... read more

It was June in Sonoma—when all everyone expects is sunshine and blue skies for miles—but it rained. And rained. And every event in the area was cancelled. Except one: the second annual Huichica Music Festival. In fact, it’s our belief that the inc... read more

Since everyone does such a great job on their projects each week, I usually don’t spotlight any one project. But... more read more

As I often convey an opinion or an observation with an unrelenting flurry of words, the lack of any commentary as I stand at Mather Point and look out over the Grand Canyon causes my fiancee, Lisa Gallagher, to ask me if something is wrong. My gaz... read more

A shadowy figure broke into my house, into my room, into my dreams. In that way dreams have of telling us what’s going on I knew he was a burglar but he didn’t seem interested in burgling anything. All he did was cut me. Over and over he cut me: s... read more