[sigh] You don’t have to be an urban planner, or a designer, or an architect, or have any interest in how built environments improve our lives. You just have to want to go up stairs and GET somewhere. Let’s look…
Plaza Fail
Posted in San Diego Tagged with: architecture, design, park, plaza, public space, public transportation, urban planning
Parent/Normal Person: The Dividing Line
Parents aren’t normal people. Normal people can enjoy simple things. Parents worry and ruin EVERYTHING. Don’t believe me? Let’s go for a walk with Number Two, a calm three year-old boy. Well…calm for three. Oh look, a fountain in a…
Adonis
He’s strong and golden, a god among men, a lover among gods. The Festival of Adonis was celebrated by women sowing seeds of wheat and barley, so it’s an appropriate name for a beer. And Adonis was worshiped by girls…
Providing Food and Drink
In the earliest days there were creatures around a fire and someone’s job was to keep the food and drink coming. I trace a hairline in my genetics back to that first server. Despite all the other advances in my…
Creepy Dolls
Who is ready for some scary dolls? Had bad dreams as a kid? No? Well, you will after you see these “beauties”. Found in Old Town Sacramento these dolls are either part of a historic display or are motionless during…
Portraits and Pints
CH did her first portrait of me, one that required posing and time and deliberate work. This was her first drawing that wasn’t a stylized representation (eyes, mouth, hair) but a recreation of what she saw when she looked at…
Card Hospital
Is it a real hospital made of cards? Is it the hospital of a town called Card? No. It is a hospital for sick and injured playing cards. I’ve said it before, there is not limit to the creativity of…
Sometimes They Are Good
Here’s how parenting goes: there’s always a fire somewhere. Either it’s coals under tinder, ready to explode, or you’re throwing handfuls of water on a Viking pyre. Either way you feel you can never completely relax. And here’s the other…
Never Give Up
Sometimes you give up too early. I’ve written about beers that didn’t work when I thought they would be great, and others that rose from the ashes to be wonderful. Last night I went out to the beer fridge int he…
Posted in Brewing, Uncategorized Tagged with: beer, brewing, harvest ale, home brewing, malts, spices
Holiday Battle Rage!
Who thought it was a good idea to sequester children in a small house, set their constitutions alight with sweets, then have them rip into piles of presents like hyenas going after a water buffalo? Christmas is madness, a ready-made…
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