tour de gay
[brace yourselves, it's random, possibly drunken, photoblogging...whatever happened to the term moblogging? do people still use it? am i hopelessly 2006?]

And tho it's a bit dorky of me to admit (like that ever stopped me?), I love pride. I'm completely a flaming happy pride queer. Even the tourists don't annoy me as much, and for the most part, I love seeing the dang bay get all fabby and gay. Yes, the world is a scary place, and I'm thankful everyday for the little corner of the world (and this pocket in time) that I get to call home. Ok, enough verklempt...

Riding the Firetruck!
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Fire dog: I get to ride with rupert! He's sucha love, I forgot to pay attention to the throngs of gorgeous people screaming at us. Well, a good dog is a good thing. So no biggie.
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Clean indoor plumbing rocks dyke march: This was a stellar year for indoor plumbing. I didn't have to use the portapots at all. (Now, pride sunday was a whole different matter--yeeech!)
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Muffs: Oddly cute and cuddly. I'm a little troubled by these, but only a little. Plus, we spotted loo and ramen-head here, so I was happy happy happy (aka gay!) by this point.
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Free beers! Some people give out lollipops, some people give out condoms. But some people give out Tecate! Now that's love.
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Yay! A big part of the march is all the love. There's literally an outpouring of love from all the windows and cars and peeps all around. I never can get enough of this...
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Ice Cream! Part of the beauty of the dyke amble (not really much marching going on) is being able to duck into Bi-Rite Creamery and get a double cone.
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Yay! Gay! I <3 queers! Dolores park before the dyke march. It was much warmer than it looks, and thanks to jy and ang, we had a primo spot and got to hang out comfortably on blankets, and watch the world go by...
Labels: moblog, queer

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:: Friday, June 27, 2008 ::

tour de gay--diy activewear!
my first foray into textile screenprinting. we'll see how it goes. the blue areas will be the positive print, and when it's dry (hopefully tonight), i'll add the screen filler. when that's dry, i can rinse, let dry and then it's screenprinting sweatshop at belly palace! (we're aiming for saturday late morning/afternoon for the production run, and final product in time for sun-gay-day! :-)

if you wanna get this on your shirt, byos (bring yer own shirt) to class saturday, k? if you wanna help or whatnot feel free to comment below.
Labels: diy, queer

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:: Thursday, June 26, 2008 ::

creature of habit
Turns out that most nights i generally sit in the same seat on the bus home. Partly cuz in the back, it's more likely tha i won't hafta share. And i like the view of sf, alcatraz, and the ggb. But considering how much time i spend looking at my phone (got tetris?) I gotta admit the obvious: aino good wit change.

tomorrow, i'm wearing all black. ok, not all black, and i wear black all the time. but it's the end of an era, y'all.
Labels: bay area, change, commute, heartbreak, pizzawhirled

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:: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 ::

Inadvertent tour de bay

It's the inadvertent tour de bay. I've a bad habit of hopping onto the wrong bart train and ending up all over the place. (And yep, i'm sober. It's more a case of inattentiveness than inebriation)

luckily, my only pressing concern is getting my shoes off as soon as i can.

there's a metaphor in all this somewhere.
Labels: bay area

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Oops :)
New haircut, stuck in richmond (took the wrong bart)

and i swear that this haircut has me getting the attention (nothing big, just looks) of young straight chicks. which is so *not* hawt. but kinda funny (we're talking super young--like half my age young--and also super straight). guess i'm not bad for a 12yo geeky boy (and no, i'm not twice 12, it just sounds funnier that way).
Labels: bay area

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Bellini

Tour de gay, dinnertime.
Labels: foodie

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carrots!

this has been a good summer for veggies. i couldn't resist these gorgeous carrots--who thought i'd ever say sucha thing? despite all the agro nonsense, berkeley bowl has a really amazing produce section...
[in the background, the last of our heirloom tomatoes from the vung homo.]
Labels: foodie, garden, homey

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:: Saturday, June 21, 2008 ::

Summertime

Gorgeous day in the bay. It's "tour de gay" and we're in shorts and no socks, so i'm happy.
Labels: bay area

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:: Friday, June 20, 2008 ::

Drinkin

kjkwkmi's last day. remarkably, i had exactly zero shots. woohoo.
Labels: happy hour, pizzawhirled

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:: Saturday, June 14, 2008 ::

Organic love

Another delish get together at the vung homo.
Labels: foodie, garden

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:: Thursday, June 12, 2008 ::

beefcakin'
final product has arrived. the hoody's a bit fuzzy, so the print isn't as clean as i'd like (the black kinda shows through). and i'm getting some quizzical comments, but it's done. and in my world, there's only two types of projects: done and not.

funny thing, it's too hot in esseff for hoodies! not that i'm complaining *at all*. i love our little hot spells.
Labels: beefcake, design

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:: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 ::

workin for the kibble
Tired, and sloughing through work...and these wide-big-loping grinning dogs are what keep me working for the kibble. Sweet pups.

Before work this morning, I sat and soaked up our warm-cool breezy garden out back with toki, and the sunny patch of bed next my sweetly snoozing kee-de-hoe. Some mornings it's hard to leave our little belly patch and face the day. But ya gotta keep on keepin on to get paid. And getting paid is what keeps our pups in the kibble. So I guess I'm not workin for the man so much as I'm workin for the kibble. Or at least, that's what I like to tell myself.

It's feeling somber at werk. No, that's not quite right. It's more sober than somber. We're all keeping our heads down (right next to our morale). And you know, even the promise of happy hour no longer helps quiet the dragons of worry and fear. But there's cats to be herded, and details to be oriented, and sometimes a paycheck is enough.
Labels: belly palace, dogdogdog, dogs, homey, inspiration

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:: Saturday, June 07, 2008 ::

niche marketing

out and about this weekend (in the castro and oak-chinatown), talk about niche marketing. not sure if the royal tramp is a girl or a boy. or if that's just a bad translation. sy thinks it'll be a hit in the states.

...and lookit who we end up sitting next to at our late night dinner! (he's all grown and stuff. crazy.)
Labels: random

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:: Thursday, June 05, 2008 ::

Bedtime blathering
[Yep that's 325am. Yep i'm up and at em for work this am too.]

Must be my productive ovary kicking in, or it's the approaching launch of dogmo 2.0 (if you remember 'em, the bugs were beta, the current site is 1.0). 7 years is a pretty long life cycle, and I'll going to be glad if/when I can sit back and enjoy 2.0 for anywhere near that time frame. But something's had me cranking out side projects and doing yard- and housework (about time) like crazy...so, ovarian or otherwise, the inspiration is welcome.

Been thinking about design, and how it's about solving a problem, providing answers, that kinda thing.

First, I was giving the jim principle a fair amount of thought: make shtuff you like, enjoy the process and move on. which is cool, not getting wrapped up in external praise (tho I do), and making stuff that you like cuz you like to.

But there's more to it than that, at least a second step (and prolly many many more steps). The whole point of design is to get the client something they want to use. So there's something about that relationship that's not about ego, but that's still about negotiation and balance and bridging. I've still gotta chew on that a bit, because there's definitely a piece in there about making stuff that you love, and having that be the focus (i.e. I need to funnel some of this energy into painting more), but it's also feeling like I've come a long way in the intervening decade. All the jobs and projects and successes and failures have made me both more humble and more confident. Both more aware that I'm in a service/overdelivery field, but also more aware that some projects are not worth taking on.
Labels: design, inspiration

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:: Monday, June 02, 2008 ::

can you say procrastination?

ugh. i'm doomed. why's my site so large and outdated? sigh.
Labels: dogdogdog, dogs, toki

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toki looks at my resume... kehoe's not interested

today's a homey-work day. guess what, laundry's going, the largest of the hairballs have been captured...and I went to brunch. sigh. distractions distractions. but it is nice to have a random mellow day...ok. back to my attempt at work.
Labels: dogdogdog, dogs, kehoe, toki

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