I paid a visit to City Lights Bookstore today. My second visit so far. The first being last week, after I had watched the trailer for Howl and felt acutely embarrassed for 1) not having realized sooner that a famous bookstore is only six blocks away from my office, and thus 2) not paying my respects to the venerable establishment sooner ( Read more... )

Jeanee and I had planned to watch Never Let Me Go today. But we had to scrap that arrangement last night, because Jeanee discovered that the movie is on limited release and will not be showing in the Bay Area for some time. We were acutely disappointed, having looked forward to the movie all week. But we rallied around, and agreed to postpone our ( Read more... )

Last Thursday, I had the pleasure of viewing an exhibit at the de Young Museum, entitled Birth of Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Musée d'Orsay, with Yoojin and Nari. We rendezvoused at the museum shortly after 6:00 PM. Since our viewing was scheduled at 7:30, we had some time to wander the grounds. The museum gift shop was visited, the ( Read more... )