More graveyard cake…

A recent article in the oft-loathed (at least by me) Pitchfork is like a SparkNote on my teenage musical coming-of-age. Nitsuh Abebe, the author of the piece, cites everyone from the Pastels to Heavenly to Tiger Trap to Bunnygrunt (oh Bunnygrunt, whose records I have lost to too many moves), and everything from C-86 to [...]

Last Tuesday I found a six-month-old kitten outside of my apartment door. Disheveled, lonely, and mewling grouchily, she was sniffing around under my door. My two cats crept under the bed, disturbed. I brought the little one in (she was tuxedo-colored) and crated her in the bathroom. I fed her, and wiped her down with [...]

Although every picture I took from our last day in Portland, and all the pictures from Seattle, have all vanished from my camera, the trip was still wonderful. Here are some highlights, top-ten style.

Best drip coffee and cinnamon-sugar pastry: Cole (formerly Royal) Coffee, Oakland CA
Best cold, gray, icy beach: Ocean Beach, San Francisco CA
Hands-down best [...]