Part of my heritage:
At one point the city was my best friend. We spent a lot time alone, made each other feel good, and I have many memories of being intoxicated with her beauty. (I think I almost got her pregnant back in the spring of 2004). Now I wake up at five to spend my days in Vallejo and there is the sense that SF and I have drifted apart a little. But it was a sunny weekend of wandering around town around and it felt good to remember that old, mischievous spark.
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And then, while I was wading along Ocean Beach, two tall guys from Amsterdam asked permission to photograph me for their Dutch design magazine. “We take pictures of people in the park,” they said. They had bad teeth. For fifteen minutes I posed.
And then we surprised A-kik-o (trivia team: general knowledge, handicrafts, geography).
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And then Joe and Ana arrived in town for the final leg of their honeymoon.
And then I skipped my open studio show completely because who cares about a bunch of postcards?
August 4th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
[…] Another month, another wedding. Devoted readers will recall feather2pixel’s breaking coverage of ex-Explainer Akiko’s surprise birthday/marriage proposition party in October. Well, she accepted and nine months later her and eighty of her friends and family were getting drunk at the summit of Pacific Heights on a clear Saturday afternoon. Anna from Germany was there. The mushroom soup was excellent. […]