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 3300 steps and 49 feet (15 meters) elevation over two and a quarter hours, (half an hour moving).
Figure 1. Cover of If We Burn by Vincent Bevins, published 2023-10-02 by PublicAffairs, a 368-page hardcover.
Covering 2010-2020ish, this caught me up on a lot of the struggle I had been oblivious to before 2016 and been distrusting of various sources since. Pretty remarkable work. Bevin succeeds, to me, at detailing the process and outcomes of what seem to have been predominantly anarchist movements he’s sympathetic to.
Figure 1. A map of San Francisco, California. The path of a three and three quarters mile (six kilometer) walk is indicated. About 7400 steps and 459 feet (140 meters) elevation over two and a half hours, (one and a quarter hours moving).
We have potted plans from at least three friends who left SF (and CA, it turns out), and one is an orchid that I never figured out how to do much with beyond keep alive for two years.
so we asked at the garden center and they suggested orchid food (sticks and spray) and sure enough, when fed, the primary sprout poked back up and grew 12" or so in the past few months and now we’ve got maybe four flowers to look forward to.
idk if/how we could have helped the first four buds which died off.
Figure 1. photograph of our orchid in an white orchid pot (holes in the side in a cross pattern, with set in a dish so that you can’t over-water it) on our credenza next to a red/green prayer plant, in front of a very light pink wall. A few large green leaves spill over the pot and one long trunk clipped to a stick in two places rises 12” before bending over at 90” on a gradual arc. At the top and end are four buds, the one furthest from the tip being the oldest and largest nearing half an inch in diameter and the others smaller and younger in diminishing size.Figure 2. top down photo of the same orchid plant and buds, macro on the buds where you can now see that there were three or four earlier buds which withered away and left nothing on the plant but a brown tip like a broken-off branch.
Was catching up on the O.G. after suggesting this doc to a friend and found out / was reminded maybe/why Donald Fagan’s response to being asked to be involved in any way was to say "fuck you”
Standing in a band labeled 30-80lbs that is wrapped behind and around the parallel bars of a chin up bar getting ready to do the 8th and final chin up of 3 sets of 8 when the band slips off my heels and thwaps me across the shoulder blades like only a 2" wide rubber band supporting my entire body weight can thwap
My lynch story is that a friend convinced us to fly to LA for one of his film festivals where this premiered (or at least was shown?) in a full theater of his fans https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BSgM56SSJ0 and the next day I got to ride in an elevator with Blondie who was also at the festival
