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posts from 2025 / 03 / 02

  1. entering my Townes Van Zandt era even though lyrics normally pass over my smooth brain like the colored smoke over an efficient wing in wind tunnel tests reminds me of getting into Elvis Costello years ago and telling a hipper friend of mine “wow, did you know his first few albums are like, incredible?” and getting in response a very deadpan “yes, that is generally the consensus.”

    late-mid-century texas and bakersfield sounds are my jam lately, catching me by surprise.

  2. [incredulously] Who did this!?

    photograph from the north west corner of vienna and excelsior streets in san francisco, a residential neighborhood full of blocks of four-way stops and a few blocks from any commercial street corner, this block inexplicably has a round brick-layrd mound in the center, turning it into a roundabout.

  3. top of rack sourdough preferment and folds, bottom of rack primary fermentation overnight, easily more than doubled, let’s go.

    🥹🥹🥹

  4. Here’s how I plot out a potential walk before I go, sometimes: I use CityStride’s map pathing.

    Other times, of course, I just wing it. But I’ve been bit by missing a block mid-neighborhood in places before and my sense of completionism drives me to go back, so this helps.

    I’m also not completing every citystride “segment” so I ignore that mechanic - it includes a few alleys which aren’t actually open to the public and paths that don’t exist anymore.

    a map of san francisco, ca centering McLaren Park. Holly Park in Bernal Heights is the norther most landmark, and the 280 freeway crosses the map a quarter of the way from the top while the 101 freeway peeks across the top right corner . Every street north of 280 and west of 101 has a purple path over it of a walk I’ve done w/ GPS recording. The paths continue across 101 from Sunnyside and have completed most of the streets between 280 and Alemany. A blue dotted line marks a potential walk I might do this morning through the Excelsior neighborhood after taking a Muni bus south from the Mission where to a stop I’ve used a few times to get to this neighborhood for prior walks. The planned walk is just under 6 miles but I can bail at any time back for a bus home on Mission st.