hello

Morning weight: 187.6

I'm back.  I'm browner.  I'm hairier.  I'm thinner.  I'm relaxed.  I'm hopeful.  I'm on the move.  I'm energetic.  I'm happy.  I'm excited.  I'm faster.  I am not stronger.  

Bye bye fog, hello motherland.

...8..7..6..5..4..3..2..1...Kaboom!!  (worst count down ever)  

I'm off to Greece tonight.  I cannot wait to see, taste, smell, fell, and touch down in Greece.  It has been a long time coming that my I get to finally experience Greece with my brother.  I can see some great times ahead of us.

I'll see the rest of you when I get back.  Do me a favor while I'm gone, ring San Francisco out....this city is too soggy for me.

For crying out loud.

Morning weight:  190.2

Last week cyclist Kirk Janes was struck and killed at the intersection of Fulton and Steiner.  

Yesterday a cyclist was hit, and is listed in critical condition, on Bayshore Blvd. near the Cesar Chavez off ramp.

There have been countless others that I have been reading about both in and around the San Francisco Bay Area as well as out of state.  Please drivers, be mindful.  There are some daredevils in the cycling community but for every unlawful, daredevil cyclist out there there are hundreds of oblivious drivers mowing down the rest of us law abiding cyclist.  So please, just be aware.  Stop driving like you are in a bubble.

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Morning weight: 192.8 lbs.

Well, my birthday has come and gone, sort of.  The day actually slipped by this past Tuesday.  What a shitty day to have a birthday on.  Tuesdays are even worse than Mondays.  Anyway, it slipped by with out a peep.  I planned nothing, I did nothing, and I enjoyed doing nothing.  Emma and I had a sleepy night watching movies from bed and snuggling up with some blankets and pillows.

Emma already gave me her present and it is probably the coolest present I have ever gotten.  She signed me up for sailing instruction and certification with OCSC Sailing.  I think Emma just one the best girlfriend of the year award, thank you very much.  

This weekend I will be heading out to Concord to spend some time with my folks and siblings and to celebrate my birthday again.  I cannot wait to hang out in the kitchen with my Mom.  For years I have been her prep cook/sous chef.  We are having lamb shanks, spanakopita, pastitsio, horiatiki salata, garlic bread, beer/wine, and who knows what else.  I love to eat.  

So there you go.

Oh yes, Greece, the countdown starts today.  Well, it should have started yesterday, the 21st.  So here we go...

THE MOTHER LAND, GREECE, HERE I COME.

In 10...9...

I figured I'd do two to make up for the late start. 

For our beautiful Rebecca (New York)

For our beautiful Rebecca (New York)

For our beautiful Rebecca (New York)

JCS's big advice for this weekend:

Don't have any babies. As a matter of fact, don't ever have a baby. It'll be the greenest thing you will ever not do.

Both Both, Tonight

BOTH BOTH READING
Tonight, Friday the 16th.

from JOHN SAKKIS....and then posted by LRS, stolen by me and reposted below:

Friday May 16, 7pm
415 Pierce St. #3 (between Oak and Fell)
San Francisco


BOTH BOTH means LOVE...

I'm very excited to be bi-coastally (all the way from Brooklyn) hosting Julian Brolaski and Tracy Grinnell for the next BOTH BOTH (5/16/7pm).

I'm also San Franpsychotically stoked to announce that local SF hero, Lauren Kohne, will be gracing the walls of my apartment with new art works/ installation.

this BOTH BOTH is the magazine issue...just like the old print format; 2 writers/ 1 artist

per usual some cans-o-beer will be provided but please bring your own liquor of your choice. and per usual snacks will not be provided (the economy!) so bring your brown bag lunch if you want to eat.


w/

Julian T. Brolaski is the author of the chapbooks Letters to Hank
Williams (True West Press, 2003), The Daily Usonian (Atticus/Finch
2004), Madame Bovary's Diary (Cy Press 2005) (under the name Tanya
Brolaski).

Brolaski lives in Brooklyn where zie is an editor at
Litmus Press and writing zir dissertation on rhyme and the poetics of
authority in medieval, Renaissance and Apache poetries.


E. Tracy Grinnell is the author of Some Clear Souvenir (O Books 2006) and Music or Forgetting (O Books 2001), as well as the limited edition chapbooks Leukadia (Trafficker Prees forthcoming 2008), Quadriga, a collaboration with Paul Foster Johnson (gong chapbooks 2006), Of the Frame (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs 2004), and Harmonics (Melodeon Poetry Systems 2000).

She lives in Brooklyn, New York, where she teaches writing and edits Litmus Press and the journal Aufgabe.

San Francisco based artist Lauren Kohne creates sculptural art-pieces. She investigates social structures, habits and standards through materiality in bookmaking, painting, mixed and multi media pieces. Her work has been shown in Portland, San Francisco and Los Angeles as well as published in various poetry chap

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