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If you live in SF and enjoy visiting Glen Canyon, to walk your dog, play soccer, ultimate or baseball, picnic, hike, or just enjoy the owls and woodpeckers - contact your Supervisor THIS WEEK. The full Board votes in early Dec. Say NO! to the 10-Story Monopole! secure.everyaction.com/wIkKztm-nECa...

Spent the day moving our kids and their critters into their new spot in the Southland. 🐕 🐈‍⬛ 😎

Metaphor alert. Long Beach Island, New Jersey, August 2025.

Great news, to hear that @zachlowenba.bsky.social is headed to the Ringer. Welcome to... (whatever the new pod will be called)!

(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.

All in, for Project 1963.

Now that the NYT, WaPo and LA Times have knelt and kissed the ring, what’s the last American newspaper of record standing? The Boston Globe? Chicago Tribune? My hometown rag, the Philadelphia Inquirer?

Looking back on this year, the two most interesting pieces I cut were a business hagiography for Ann Winblad and an elegy for Sandy Robertson - more for the fun of the archival image treasure hunts than the (also) engaging stories themselves.

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I free-caught a punt near the end of the half in a high school 🏈 game some 50 years ago, tried to convince our head coach that we should go for the free kick. He thought I was nuts, wasn’t aware of the rule. We took a knee. Happily, it didn’t matter - but it could have. What a great, vestigial rule.

Egad, these #Vikings unis and helmets are hideous. It feels like I'm watching Penn State. Or the old Colts. #MondayNightFootball

Annual reminder: Die Hard is about using impossibly limited resources to defend a tower from foreign invaders. Die Hard is a Hanukkah movie.

If we’d speak more ill of the dead, maybe it would remind the living not to be assholes.

Sidenote to the set of stories I just finished up this week: lots of archival material, which I polished, extended out to 16x9 and upscaled significantly using quasi-AI tools.

Wrapping up 3 profiles I cut every year this season, for a business awards show. Invariably, I fall for the people and their stories. I'm thankful that, for the most part, the plutocrats in our town are socially conscious and left-leaning.

Stopped by the (very) soft open for India Basin's new park in Hunter's Point. It will be a nice greenway , for walkers, riders and kids. And birds!

i can attest to at least one puerto rican voter in pennsylvania who was not planning to vote and now intends to vote for harris as a result of last night’s display

The @nytimes, @washingtonpost and @latimes' advisory boards all voted to endorse and support Harris. These papers' owners blocked the endorsement. They are afraid of retaliation by a future Trump administration. Harris should note this fact publicly, and thank the editorial boards for their support.

FWIW, Harris worked at the McD's on Central in Alameda - which for those who don't know is an island adjacent to Oakland in the SF Bay. I worked near there by the Oakland estuary in the mid-'80s. Would occasionally eat at that McD's. Missed her by a couple of years. Bummer!

My guess is, the reason Donald Trump malaprop’ed January 5 as Election Day earlier this week is that he’s been party to a lot of J6-24 conspiracy planning these past weeks, just let the cat out of the bag in a senior moment. The 2 months after Harris’ election are going to be extremely precarious.

If Harris wins the election, Madame President should refuse to be sworn in by the complicit Chief Justice, and instead choose either Jackson or all 3 left-leaning justices. Roberts has lost the standing to deserve the honor, by his actions this past term.

One thing positive about a week-long heat wave: our community garden is popping off. Fall workday was a success, the new gardeners are up to speed and our pumpkin's oranging up.

Still waiting for a statue of Jefferson Davis trying to evade capture by wearing a woman’s frock. Lee begging Grant to accept his surrender. Stonewall Jackson getting fragged by his own men. You know, Southern heritage

The cult surrounding a white guy whose father’s tax fraud scheme made him a millionaire at age 8 insists that the daughter of two first generation immigrants couldn’t have gotten to where she is on merit.

The staging area for my canvas for Biden in NH is "week before the election" levels of packed. I don't think we have an enthusiasm problem.

This is one of the greatest relationship enhancers, ever. I'll have to make sure my SO never sees it. She might want 38 back-orders filled.

It must be June solstice in San Francisco, because Karl just rolled in and I can't see across the street now.

Curious, anyone know where I can lay a small wager on the outcome of the Trump election fraud trial?

Spending my lunch break enjoying some actual warmth, at our community garden at the end of the street. Bumblebees, honeybees and hummingbirds are busily doing their thing. #LifeByTheCanyon

I just heard the most Lou Reed quote ever. Apparently when Talking Heads stopped touring, Lou told drummer Chris Frantz, "Ya know, you gotta tour. The fans want to view the body."

Just trying to imagine if people a few hundred years ago had been here to witness, in the span of a few weeks, an eclipse, an earthquake, a supernova as bright as the North Star, and an unexpected appearance of the northern lights.

Had an interesting remote media interaction just now- turned on YouTubeTV for the news during lunch, got a splash screen asking "would you like us to record some shows for you?". 75% were for conservative media. Google, you know I'm in SF, what I watch, read & scroll. Surely you can gauge me better.

A workaround: if anyone feels that mail-in D ballots are being waylaid in their neighborhoods, take a ride over to a ritzy R part of town and drop your ballot at a post office or box there. Then, track it until it's counted. www.commondreams.org/news/louis-d...

Our gal Riley caught some birdshot from critter chasers, as a stray pup in the Southland. A rescue org brought her up to NorCal and we were fortunate enough to adopt her 6 years ago. She loves people, and understandably gets a bit skittish around loud noises. Would we ever harm her? Are you kidding?

Why, just why did the #Pacers not foul, up-three with 6 seconds left? They had smoke opportunity. Insane! #NBAthreads

Just devastated to hear about the passing of Trina Robbins. We were friends for 40 years, and co-founded Friend of Lulu together. She was a force of nature and did so much to tell the history of comics. Her memoir is a colorful history of unforgettable times and her own pioneering work.

I cut a set of spots for a long-time client the other week. Hadn't seen them since before the plague. While they weren't with me in the sessions, it was great just to be with them, on the phone, back and forth emails, fell right back into it.

To everyone who seems hell-bent to get Biden to opt off the ticket: Barak Obama is sitting there, draftable. Disqualifying amendments are passe, this election season.

On our way back from Mendo and the North Coast to SF, we paid a quick visit to the beautiful, tiny Sea Ranch (non-denominational) chapel. For godless heathens such as ourselves, it offers a moment of peace and quiet. Avail yourselves if you ever have the opportunity.

On today's plate: cut down a brain health expert conversation, and refine a short memorial for a local business titan who was a true mensch. And, muck my way through a sneaky, nasty croup.