Shortly after midnight last night, Leon picked me up at the airport in San Francisco, drove me through In-N-Out Burger, navigated around the Bay Bridge construction detours, and brought me back to Berkeley ( Read more... )

Oh, yes, I was there.Leon stuffed two feather pillows in crisp white pillowcases into his backpack and then met me on a BART train headed to San Francisco. We smiled at each other, feeling sneaky and covert, like we were up to no good. But our cover was more or less blown by the number of people who opted to carry their pillows in plain sight, so ( Read more... )

So, Leon and I went to see his favorite band, the Celtic-influenced rock group Carbon Leaf, in San Francisco last night, and they were pretty awesome. I was once again on the fence about the coolness of lead singer Barry Privett, as I watched him try to rock it out while simultaneously acting completely touched by his own lyrics. It was a ( Read more... )

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Yesterday was Leon's quarter-of-a-century birthday, and we celebrated at Radio Alice's Now and Zen Fest (site is currently down). Our primary interest in the concert was Carbon Leaf, who opened the five hour show with a set that was no longer than twenty minutes ( Read more... )

My Sunday birthday somehow turned into a birth-weekend, and I managed to eat out at six different establishments. (That's all birthday celebrations are, right? An excuse to eat out ( Read more... )

I never used to understand how people could forget to put on deodorant ( Read more... )

This is an interesting article explaining how expensive housing in San Francisco is driving families out of the city and into the East Bay. (And Leon and I think the East Bay is expensive ( Read more... )

My parents will be in town this weekend, and so far it seems that everything I want to do with them is either absurdly expensive or questionable in terms of how well it'll entertain everyone.

The first thing that caught my eye was the Teatro Zinzanni, which is something of a circus being performed during a five-course meal. It ordinarily might ( Read more... )

This afternoon, Leon charged more than $1500 in car repairs to our Discover account. And we're not finished with said repairs ( Read more... )