1. Morning Walk

    Figure 1. A map of San Francisco, California. The path of a two mile (three and a quarter kilometer) walk is indicated. About 4000 steps and 66 feet (20 meters) elevation over one and a quarter hours, (three quarters of an hour moving).
    Posted on Strava about a year agoon May 27, 2025 - 2:27 PM and archived here at /strava/2025/05/27/morning-walk/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/strava/2025/05/27/morning-walk/ in the Strava collection in both HTML and markdown.

  2. Did a little 20 mile bike loop from the mission mission to glen park, lake merced, sunset dunes park, gg park, doubled back to the pump track + skills track to meet the fam (the plan all along)

    jr pushed his scooter around the skills track boards for a bit, we hung out on the logs further north, then they went home and I continued on through GGP and the wiggle

    just by a rough eyeball count of blue “stand with joel” vs yellow “recall engardio” signs on the houses facing the GH, joel is doomed

    my bike, rolled up off the path onto the ice plant, leaning against a logit’s an ~10 year old gravel bike w/ slicks on it (an all-city macho man with disc breaks and 105 components) red on the front half and white on the back, with a buncha stupid stickers on the white half. I’ve got two water cages on it use both, a panier rack and bag.
    Figure 1. my bike, rolled up off the path onto the ice plant, leaning against a logit’s an ~10 year old gravel bike w/ slicks on it (an all-city macho man with disc breaks and 105 components) red on the front half and white on the back, with a buncha stupid stickers on the white half. I’ve got two water cages on it use both, a panier rack and bag.

    pictured: joel engardio himself, as seen from Sunset Dunes

    photo of the back of someone’s house, which faces the new Sunset Dunes Park in san francisco. Thy’ve got a wooden fence about 8 foot tall, the house is yellow with aluminum windows and a black pitched roof. Peeking over the roofline of the fence is one of those giant skeletons people get for halloween. Only the skull is visible but it is probably the entire thing behind the fence, and it is facing kinda northwest toward Sunset Dunes. Even cooler, someone put a fake pigeon (?!) on top of the skull, which, like, nice job.
    Figure 2. photo of the back of someone’s house, which faces the new Sunset Dunes Park in san francisco. Thy’ve got a wooden fence about 8 foot tall, the house is yellow with aluminum windows and a black pitched roof. Peeking over the roofline of the fence is one of those giant skeletons people get for halloween. Only the skull is visible but it is probably the entire thing behind the fence, and it is facing kinda northwest toward Sunset Dunes. Even cooler, someone put a fake pigeon (?!) on top of the skull, which, like, nice job.
    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon May 26, 2025 - 11:11 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2025/05/26/114576659465963469/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2025/05/26/114576659465963469/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  3. Afternoon Ride

    Figure 1. A map of San Francisco, California. The path of a 20 and three quarters mile (33 and a half kilometer) ride is indicated. About 768 feet (234 meters) elevation over two and three quarters hours, (one and three quarters hours moving).
    Posted on Strava about a year agoon May 26, 2025 - 7:39 PM and archived here at /strava/2025/05/26/afternoon-ride/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/strava/2025/05/26/afternoon-ride/ in the Strava collection in both HTML and markdown.

  4. At the picture shop a few days ago getting a julian lage sf jazz residency poster framed (I caught the solo acoustic show and the duo with marc ribot, who is just the coolest 😍) and while I was trying to decide on a ready-made or not, the other table became the center of attention w/a full size (huge) star wars poster, which looked mint.

    the owner helping him says he worked at lucasfilm in the 80s and that this was one of two sizes or something? he was very excited

    a normal sized (18x24”) poster for Julian Lage’s SF Jazz residence in dark blue, dark green, and maroon over cream featuring an abstract guitar, a telecaster control set, flowers, and a hand holding a pen for some reason.I was trying to decide between the closest wood I could get to an acoustic guitar, and a metal that in hindsight looks a lot like fret wire. the metal was 1/3rd the cost of the wood, so I went w/ the metal."Julian” is horizontal in a script font on the left in red and LAGE is in all block sans in blue and green. the bottom left corner lists the dates and says:plays 4 nightssoloduo????
    Figure 1. a normal sized (18x24”) poster for Julian Lage’s SF Jazz residence in dark blue, dark green, and maroon over cream featuring an abstract guitar, a telecaster control set, flowers, and a hand holding a pen for some reason.I was trying to decide between the closest wood I could get to an acoustic guitar, and a metal that in hindsight looks a lot like fret wire. the metal was 1/3rd the cost of the wood, so I went w/ the metal."Julian” is horizontal in a script font on the left in red and LAGE is in all block sans in blue and green. the bottom left corner lists the dates and says:plays 4 nightssoloduo????
    a giant table-covering poster labeled “STAR WARS REURN OF THE JEDI SERIES B ONE SHEET”which had been stored rolled, never folded, and in mind condition, I assume for 42 years (circa 1983) but maybe a repro?This is one of the illustrated headshot ones with darth vader in front of the second death star top center, luke under him, han under that, and the rest of the cast horizontal below Junior and I just happened to watch this one last weekend and it is pretty hokey, but the people in the store were all pretty excited by it.
    Figure 2. a giant table-covering poster labeled “STAR WARS REURN OF THE JEDI SERIES B ONE SHEET”which had been stored rolled, never folded, and in mind condition, I assume for 42 years (circa 1983) but maybe a repro?This is one of the illustrated headshot ones with darth vader in front of the second death star top center, luke under him, han under that, and the rest of the cast horizontal below Junior and I just happened to watch this one last weekend and it is pretty hokey, but the people in the store were all pretty excited by it.
    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon May 26, 2025 - 6:33 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2025/05/26/114575567069075283/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2025/05/26/114575567069075283/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  5. The high school fan in me was pretty disappointed w/ the “becoming led zeppelin" thing that just came out. I bailed.

    the second half is full of neat ‘68, '69, and ‘70 film of the band live, but not with the definitely available and in some cases highly regarded audio of those shows. Instead, studio or bbc session releases for completely different songs, and not even particularly good songs were used.

    "Living Loving Maid”, to pick one they used, sucks, and was never in their actual live sets.

    at least a band famously hostile to tapers (or passive to Peter Grant) and infamously noted for onion-on-belt songwriting credit lag didn’t profit off of tapers I guess? weird decisions.

    also, it is full of stock footage cultural contextualization, which, as a device, ugh, the worst dreck of romanticism imo.

    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon May 26, 2025 - 1:11 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2025/05/26/114574302260087327/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2025/05/26/114574302260087327/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  6. Half way through nabokov’s “pale fire” and istg every aside story in the commentary about stuff in zembla reads like a wes anderson scene

    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon May 25, 2025 - 10:11 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2025/05/25/114570760696937962/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2025/05/25/114570760696937962/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  7. carnivale

    Figure 1. A map of San Francisco, California. The path of a one and three quarters mile (two and three quarters kilometer) walk is indicated. About 3500 steps and 20 feet (six meters) elevation over three hours, (three quarters of an hour moving).
    Posted on Strava about a year agoon May 25, 2025 - 5:01 PM and archived here at /strava/2025/05/25/carnivale/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/strava/2025/05/25/carnivale/ in the Strava collection in both HTML and markdown.

  8. getting this julian lage poster framed and the guy at the other table has a proper theatrical run sized rotj

    Figure 1. A map of San Francisco, California. The path of a two mile (three and a quarter kilometer) walk is indicated. About 3900 steps and 26 feet (eight meters) elevation over one hour, (three quarters of an hour moving).
    Posted on Strava about a year agoon May 24, 2025 - 8:52 PM and archived here at /strava/2025/05/24/getting-this-julian-lage-poster-framed-and-th/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/strava/2025/05/24/getting-this-julian-lage-poster-framed-and-th/ in the Strava collection in both HTML and markdown.

  9. 'Let ‘Em In’ by Wings ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=re61B8sKQWk) has been in the rotation lately on mellotron ( https://www.lemellotron.com/) which I listen to on a JBL clip on the bike all the time.

    'Let 'Em In' - PaulMcCartney.com Track of the Weekhttp://www.PaulMcCartney.comThis week's track of the week is 'Let 'Em In', taken from the 1976 Wings album 'Wings At The Speed Of Sound'.What are your though...YouTube
    Figure 1. Link preview of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=re61B8sKQWk, "'Let 'Em In' - PaulMcCartney.com Track of the Week".
    Home - Vidéo Showsglobal music radiolemellotron.com
    Figure 2. Link preview of https://www.lemellotron.com/, "Home - Vidéo Shows".

    I didn’t grow up hearing much Wings so it’s just a delightful little pop thing w/ a good pedaling bass line to cycle to for me and not a Wings song I’ve heard a million times (some of those are great too of course) every time it comes on.

    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon May 23, 2025 - 4:35 AM and archived here at /mastodon/2025/05/23/114555286345524275/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2025/05/23/114555286345524275/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  10. lol

    Figure 1. A map of San Francisco, California. The path of a six mile (nine and three quarters kilometer) ride is indicated. About 157 feet (48 meters) elevation over half an hour.
    Posted on Strava about a year agoon May 22, 2025 - 11:03 PM and archived here at /strava/2025/05/22/lol/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/strava/2025/05/22/lol/ in the Strava collection in both HTML and markdown.
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