In San Francisco, we have these public commodes.


Some like them, and some hate them. The diss is that they are attractions for drug deals and quick hook ups by hookers.



I ususally give a a wide berth to from them on my walks through The City.

True story, I told the San Francisco city worker, "damn, that's a crap load more electronics than I expected to see in a public commode."

Here's an advertising campaign that makes me want to open my wallet for my wife to shop......

Tribe Fan in SC/Cali wrote:Nice Sunday day ending as the sun has settled and the stars have risen....

The KCSM PBS station out here has a nice treat from the early 70's, "Ladies & Gentlemen, The Rolling Stones."

Excerpts from four Texas concerts in 1972.

My favorite Jazz station, and has been for some time. Thank God for internet radio (and Roku!).

And back on PBS, we had a PBS show tonight, Soundtrack for a Revolution.



Here's just a minute and seventeen seconds of television and History worth watching:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0FiCxZKuv8


And I remember every minute of the day that my Dad awoke me to tell me Robert F. Kennedy had been shot in California. We were Irish Catholic and at that time I still thought I was a Democrat. Our team.

I learned of RFK's passing while sitting in the parking lot of a hamburger stand with my Dad after baseball practice.



Later in 1969 I walked holding candles one evening in a "moratorium" with a girl named Connie. I wasn't all that political at that time. She did go to the Catholic school down the street and I thought she looked really cute in her issued skirt and shoes.

"All we are saying, is give peace a chance."

My favorite Jazz station, and has been for some time. Thank God for internet radio (and Roku!)



I first heard 91.1 KCSM while in an MRI in Dr. Arthur Ting's office. That's where I was sent for the evaluation before my achilles tendon was hacked and rebuilt. Turned out Barry Bonds was visiting Dr. Ting around the same time.


I sent KCSM fifty bucks via a pledge on my way home that day. I'd bet all the roids in China Barry Bonds never sent KCSM a cent.

Perhaps I'm wrong.

I tout a PBS show called "California Gold" often. I love it because it's just one guy...Huell Howser...from Tennessee.....who goes around looking at historical and natural places and conversing unscripted with seemingly anyone who shows up. What seems like just a single camera operator is present.

Tonight's rerun has him at Richard Nixon's boyhood home, being lead on a personal tour by Julie Nixon Eisenhower.

I don't believe I ever knew that Richard Nixon's father was both born in Ohio. Columbiana County. He worked in Columbus until he was a young adult.

Ironically, the Bush family's Prescott Bush was born in Ohio and had worked in Columbus. That I knew already.

I also didn't know until this evening that Julie Nixon Eisenhower supported and donated to Barrack Obama. That wasn't in the show. I just looked it up.

When my wife and daughter get back from the mall we are going to a late sushi dinner.

I think I might have the sea urchin gonads. "Uni." I've mentioned them before here.

I learned about them initially by watching them being harvested from ocean rocks in The Channel Islands near Santa Barbara. On a "California Gold" episode.

If I don't have the sea urchin gonads I might have the lightly fried squid arms.

This place has a diverse and tempting menu, so I might change my mind....

Dick Van Dyke with a stellar performance as a guest on Jay Leno tonight.


He nailed SupercalifragisticexpealiYankeesscukdocious.

I caught Van Dyke as well. I only hope I am as lively, alert, and in as good health as he appears to be when I am 85! Apparently my local station edited out the "Yankeesscuk" from that song.