Flying Books in North Beach

Pre-New Years Eve night.

Flying books in North Beach. (we didn't take the photo of the ground) on the sidewalk of where this flying books were installed, there were random words. I'm guessing this is a tribute to the Beat Generation writers and poets (i.e. Ferlinghetti, Snyder, Kerouac, Ginsberg, etc...)

The Taste of Tea

"Meet the Harunos, a rather unconventional but happy family and loving family. They live in a small town in the mountains just outside of Tokyo where life is good and quiet -- but that doesn't mean they don't have their own little problems.

Eight-year old Sachiko is bothered at inopportune moments by her own giant-sized double, who hangs around sitting on buildings staring at her, while her older brother Hajime privately wrestles with raging hormones and love-struck crush on a pretty new classmate.

The grown-ups havetheir difficulties too: the mother struggles to come out of retirement as an animator, and the father is a professional hypnotist who occasionally plies his treade on his own family with often-funny results. An uncle drops in for a visit, but he also has a hidden agenda as he comesto terms iwth a romace that ended years ago. Another uncle who is a successful manga artist also stops in for his birthday, wanting to give himself something special. And finally there's Grandpa, the most eccentric and perhaps the most perceptive of all, who continues to search for a better way to live life to the fullest.

Written, directed and edited by Katsuhito Ishii, The Taste of Tea is a unique and gentle family portrait tackling the universal themes of time, family and life."

Anthropologie

http://www.anthropologie.com/anthro/index.jsp;jsessionid=43E76D9B6BCF867F2B346B5F7D33AC54.app42-node3

I love this website/brand. I especially love going to their website because of how the pages are arranged and designed. Dainty and so pretty. Also, I adore their clothes and things - lol.
Check it out.

2009

Good Luck to you and Jon this coming year - 2009!

I wish you guys all the BEST!

Always take care!

"Under the Boardwalk... We'll Be Having Some Fun"

"Peace to the World"


I wish Everyone a joyful and healthy New Year! -a

Special Memories with this one. Although she (Laffin Sal) can be so freakin scary...

Kidz...

Whenever I'm driving down to Santa Cruz this [very] rundown house by the road, always catches my eye and I've always wanted to take a photo of it. Today, I was finally able to do that. Sadly, it is being sold.

The gorgeous Pacific Ocean (off HI 1)

Lovely Madonna and I=) are enjoying the scenery and just relaxing before things get hectic again.

We were driving by... and suddenly we saw these Two, leisurely walking by the road. Aren't they beautiful!

I raise my glas to the new year, may it be a good one.

GordMckenna

I can truly feel
Christmas,
the one that
passed.

I can feel it on
my thighs
my midriff
my buttocks
my insides

Needless to say
something
must be done.

So I am off.
For a couple
of days
down south
with my love
and my surfboard.

And I shall
return
slimmer than ever.

In the
mean time
I hope
you will have
the best of
New Years!

- E

Ho ho ho...

Track Santa by satellite!
Published: Wednesday, 24 December 2008, 3:20PM

For web-savvy kids everywhere, Santa's journey from the North Pole can be tracked online.

The North American Aerospace Defence Command (Norad), which is responsible for aerospace and maritime defence, has teamed up with internet giants Google to make Santa's busy 24 hours visible online via the www.noradsanta.org site.

It appears he has already dropped off some some gifts in Russia, Japan, Fiji, North Korea, New Zealand and Australia and will be heading to the UK later.

So you'd better be good for goodness sake...