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• Category: San Francisco Journal
  • San Francisco Photos – October
  • On Tranquility of the Mind – Seneca Quote
  • Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2024
  • Traffic Lights, Artificial Intelligence and Driverless Cars Stopped at Red Lights
  • Kamala Harris and Tim Walz – How Myths and Fiction Become Reality
  • Fort Funston – Fantastic Views of the Pacific Ocean
  • Bob Garfield, Julian Assange and The Definition of Journalism
  • 4742 Mission Street, The Old El Tapatio now Almost Finished
  • San Francisco Carnaval 2024
  • Emerson Quote
  • OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Adaptability
  • News from SF – The Quarterly Report – May 2024
  • Washington’s Dream – SNL – Weights and Measures – Excellent Slow News
  • Louis Menand Quote About Music – The Free World
  • San Francisco Photos – March 2024
  • Books I Read in 2023
  • News from SF – The Quarterly Report – February 2024
  • Dear New York Times – Please Unsubscribe Me to Your Publication
  • The April 2023 Atlantic Essay That Went Under the Radar – The Moral Case Against Equity Language
  • BREAKING NEWS: San Francisco Aqua Surf Shop Holds Gnarly Surf Contest at Sloat
  • News from SF – The Quarterly Report – October/November 2023
  • Quote From the Road
  • Lucca’s New Drive Thru Window
  • A Father’s Day Story
  • San Francisco’s First Juneteenth Parade
  • Carnaval 2023 – It Just Gets Better and Better
  • History Books are Not Meant To Make You Feel Comfortable
  • Parking Tickets in San Francisco
  • The Bitter Sages of the North Coast
  • Books I Read In 2022
  • A Stitch In Time
  • California College of the Arts November 2022 Ground Breaking Ceremony
  • Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2022 – Preview and Recommendations
  • Free Jokes about Our “Big World”
  • Unbearable Words and Strange Paradoxes
  • Republicans Buying Elections, DINOS and the Politics of Party Affiliation
  • Let’s Form a Well Regulated Militia
  • Judge Kentanji Jackson and Definitions
  • Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World – 90 Years Later
  • Vesuvio Cafe
  • Book Banning and The Question of Literacy In the First Place
  • Our Strange Brave New World
  • Law and Order
  • Dear Senator, I have a question
  • Photos of Sunsets – Ocean Beach, San Francisco – Winter 2022
  • Books I Read in 2021
  • 2022 – Happy New Year
  • Breaking News! It is Definitely Raining in SF
  • Remembering Pat Martino
  • Recommended Reading: BIG by Matt Stoller
  • 2021 California gubernatorial recall election – Official Endorsement – VOTE NO
  • Bernal Heights Library – Yesterday and Today
  • Photos of San Francisco
  • The Quarterly Report – May 2021
  • Why Going Solar is a Great Idea – A Break Down of the Savings
  • Catching up with Ralph Nader
  • The Chicken Lady – Thanksgiving in Guatemala
  • Why Facebook is Not Like the Bulletin Board at the Laundromat
  • Kamala Harris Quotes
  • Late Night at the Pelican Cafe – Candela at El Rio
  • Remembering Bahia Cabana – 1600 Market Street, San Francisco
  • Surfing Ocean Beach in the Winter
  • Books I Read in 2020
  • The Treason of Donald Trump and the Republican Party
  • Donald Trump Gets Covid-19 – Why Are People So Concerned?
  • Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2020 Awards Will Take a Break
  • Is Amy Goodman the new Walter Cronkite?
  • Artie Shaw Quote
  • The Quarterly Report – July 2020
  • The New York Times Comments and Censorship
  • Op-ed: U.S. Supreme Court and Bostock vs. Clayton County
  • McLaren Park – It’s Bigger Than You Think
  • Pelicancafe.net Has Reopened
  • Facebook’s Strange Terms of Service that Facilitates Fascism
  • Alia Volz and How Time Flies
  • Reflections on an Erratic, Narcissistic President
  • The Quarterly Report – April 2020
  • Mark Zuckerberg’s Lost Notebooks – Further Proof that Facebook is Not Your Friend
  • Hiram Johnson, Grooms and Corpses
  • How to Replace a Main Control Panel (Overlay) on a Modern Stove Made in 2016
  • Zoe Lofgren States the Obvious
  • The Quarterly Report – January 2020
  • Haight Ashbury Music and Wise Surfboards Closing
  • Please do not pray for the President – It Creeps Him Out
  • Photos of Ocean Beach from the Cliff House
  • The Atlantic – How to Stop a Civil War – The December 2019 Issue
  • Theodore Roosevelt and Elizabeth Warren – The Similarities Abound
  • The 2019 World Series and a Geography Lesson Ignored
  • Harry Belafonte – My Song: A Memoir of Art, Race, and Defiance – A Review
  • Northern California Coast Photos – Friday 10/23/2019
  • El Tapatio Closed for Good – Another Live Music Venue in SF Gone
  • The “Prime Directive” and the Master Plan – Atlantic Magazine
  • 2019 Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival Awards
  • The Quarterly Report – October 2019
  • AI and the Metamorphosis – The Atlantic Article
  • Sunday, September 29, 2019 – News, Opinions & Gossip
  • Kamala Harris Taking a Stand
  • Technology, The Digital Era and the Shaping of a New Geography
  • San Francisco Carnaval 2019
  • SFSU Graduation – Nancy Pelosi Commencement Address – May 2019
  • “Surfing the Internet”, “The Cloud” and other Silly Acts of Language Appropriation
  • Lucca Ravioli Co., Nothing Lasts Forever
  • The San Francisco Quarterly Report – March 2019
  • Thoughts on the New APA Guidelines for Men
  • AJ Lee and Blue Summit – Don’t Miss this Band!
  • A Week In Havana, Cuba
  • The State of the Narrative
  • 2018 Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival Awards
  • Epiphanies from Hotel Stebbins
  • John O. Lyons (3 September 1927 – 7 September 2003) – The Wiki
  • YouTube’s Content ID – A Case Study
  • San Francisco Jury Duty – A True Story
  • The Worlds’ Greatest Hitchhiker Quote
  • Official Privacy Policy Updated – Pelican Cafe
  • Zorba the Greek and Thugs, Leeches, Shouting and Playing Piano in the Lobby
  • It is all George Carlin’s Fault – He Died
  • Mavericks Surf Spot Breaking
  • The San Francisco Surf Report – November & December 2017
  • Why Facebook Really Sucks
  • California Fires – News from Anderson Valley Advertiser
  • 2017 Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival Official Pelican Café Awards
  • 2017 San Francisco Shakespeare Festival – Hamlet – The Review
  • News from San Francisco – Quarterly Report
  • In Europe – Photos and Ramblings
  • San Francisco Pride Parade 2017
  • San Jose Ave in San Francisco Has Been Paved
  • Skiing on June 15th in the Sierra Nevada Mountains
  • The 10th Anniversary of the Google Content Id System – BETA forever…
  • News from San Francisco
  • Where is Janice Raymond?
  • Hector’s Hauling & Clean Up
  • Mission and Valencia Street Repair Finished
  • BREAKING NEWS! We Insist! Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite – Temporarily out of stock.
  • San Francisco and the Saga of Terrible Roads
  • A Day in the Post Office
  • The U.S. Constitution and White House Interpretations
  • Prediction – Spring Skiing Will be Good in California
  • The Fence
  • Double Parking in the Bike Lane
  • Cool Photos of Bugs
  • The Last Doctor’s Lounge Bluegrass Jam – San Francisco
  • Nine Out of Ten
  • Quotes of the Week
  • Presidential Addresses
  • Gloria Steinem Quotes – From My Life on the Road (2015)
  • Digital Millennium Copyright Act 18 Year Anniversary
  • The 2016 Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Awards
  • Echos of New Orleans
  • Photos of Hang Gliders at Fort Funston
  • PIERS LEWIS… I still have your surfboard. It is the last one that works.
  • Google Buses and the Changing Geography of the Mission in San Francisco
  • A Few Photos of Homeless in San Francisco
  • San Francisco Carnaval 2016
  • Ocean Eats Second Parking Lot for Breakfast – Ocean Beach, San Francisco
  • Beauty Operators at The Doctor’s Lounge – Every Third Thursday
  • Johnnie Gibbson’s Hammer
  • How to Park in San Francisco
  • New Year’s Resolution Suggestion for Mayor Ed Lee
  • 4 Best Documentaries on Netflix Streaming
  • “Saving Capitalism” – Robert Reich is Looking Up
  • BREAKING NEWS! After over 8 years, Google’s Content ID system is STILL IN BETA!
  • Azabache CD Still Available but Most People Stream
  • Ocean Beach Surf – November 29, 2015
  • Remembering Allen Toussaint
  • The Google Buses have Invaded Valencia Street
  • Ocean Beach San Francisco – The Many Moods
  • The Official Privacy Policy
  • Fred Dean and the Zen of Exercise
  • Chata Gutierrez Mural Celebration
  • The 2015 Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Awards
  • Butterfly Jazz Trio – CD Second Year Anniversary
  • Who is the Real Bill Evans?
  • The 40th Annual Father’s Day Festival
  • On the SOTA Arts Proposition in San Francisco – Rethinking Arts Equity
  • 2015 Best of Excelsior District – San Francisco
  • Simón Bolívar Statue and Semour, the Western Gull
  • Stolen Car, 1,192,809 and The Warm and Fuzzy Car Story
  • Why I am Voting Yes on Prop E
  • 2014 HARDLY STRICTLY BLUEGRASS FESTIVAL OFFICIAL PELICAN CAFÉ AWARDS
  • Happy Birthday Kiddo!
  • Grand View Park
  • Thinking has its own laws… a Kitaro Nishida quote
  • The Birthday Song – The Year Now Cometh – Free Download
  • Live Bluegrass in SF as the Beauty Operators play all Weekend
  • Butterfly Jazz Trio – First Time Around CD
  • Adventures in YouTube. The Salsa Arrangements that Changed the World
  • A Week in the Western Highlands, Xela and Antigua Guatemala
  • Twenty Fourteen WordPress Theme – Very Cool
  • Thoughts on a Music Called Jazz
  • I feel better now
  • The Art of Cuing a Salsa Band – The Spontaneous Arranger
  • patching up some holes in ocean floor notice
  • 2013 Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival Official Pelican Café Awards
  • San Francisco Never Takes a Break at the Meters
  • Letter from Brother Ted
  • Jerzy Grotowski Quote
  • Kitaro Nishida Quote from McLaren Park
  • The Semantics of HTML and Web Sites – Why Markup Matters
  • How to Create Your Own File-Based Image Galleries with php, ftp, Shadowbox and a Groovy File Structure
  • 2012 Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival Highlights
  • Bootstrap Carousel – Two on the Same Page – A Clean Example
  • First Glance – Surfing Ocean Beach in San Francisco
  • Our Local Lawn Mowers
  • Monday Nights at The Union Room at Biscuits and Blues – Mike Olmos and Jeff Mars
  • Guatemala 12,000 feet… Looking Down
  • To Be Ready
  • The Vapid State of Affairs – Facebook and the New Narcissism
  • Piers Lewis… please pick up your surf board
  • Best Programming Jokes
  • 19 Tips for Helping Your Performing Arts Kid Apply to College
  • From a Wall at the SFUSD
  • The Quartet Sings Guastavino
  • Category: Cheap Thrills in SF
    • JFK Drive in Golden Gate Park
    • Aquatic Park Pier – Is Now Closed Due to Safety Concerns
    • Crane Cove Park in San Francisco is Awesome!
    • Riding “The Wiggle” on a Bike in San Francisco
    • Swimming in Aquatic Park Cove
  • Category: SF Quarterly Report
    • News from San Francisco – The Quarterly Report – September 2024
    • News from SF – The Quarterly Report
    • The Quarterly Report – March 2023
    • The Quarterly Report – December 2022
    • The Quarterly Report – July 2022
    • The Quarterly Report – March 2022
    • The Quarterly Report – November 2021
    • The Quarterly Report – July 2021
    • The Quarterly Report – February 2021
    • The Quarterly Report – October 2020
    • The Quarterly Report – September 2018
  • Category: Op-ed
    • George Washington’s Farewell Address – Warnings For Our Times
    • Kamala Harris for President and Local SF Election Picks
    • Digital Millennium Copyright Act 25 Year Anniversary
    • Banning the Wrong Books
    • Breaking News: The Field of Biology is Not In The Humanities
    • The Great Highway and the Save the Great Walkway Rally
    • What I Would ask Donald Trump
    • Softening the Edge – Examples of Weak Language at NPR
    • Observations on the Word “Feminism”
    • Tom Hanks and How the Hero Pie Gets Divided
  • Category: San Francisco History
    • Candlestick Park – Now Just a Field of Dreams
    • Remembering Robert Altman 1946-2021
  • Category: Photos
    • September in San Francisco – Photos and the Marine Layer
• Category: Arts & Culture
  • Category: Book Reviews
    • What Kind of Bird Can’t Fly: A Memoir of Resilience and Resurrection – A Review
    • Mitt Romney – A New Book “Romney A Reckoning” by McKay Coppins – A Review and Quotes
    • Discovering Blindness “Ensaio sobre a cegueira” by José Saramago
    • In the City of Bikes: The Story of the Amsterdam Cyclist – Great Summer Reading
    • Reflections on Thomas Szasz and The Manufacture of Madness
    • Thomas Merton, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, And The Protection Of All Beings – A Review
    • Barbara Ehrenreich – Legacies and Book Recommendations
    • The Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia Sofer – A Review
    • Kurt Vonnegut – A Man Without a Country – The Review
    • “Stamped from the Beginning: A Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America” – The Definitive Review
    • Review of Culture Crash: The Killing of the Creative Class by Scott Timberg
    • “The Knowledge Illusion” – Some Quotes
    • Cuba and its Music – Thoughts on Ned Sublette’s Amazing Book about American Music
    • “Into the Wild” by Jon Krakauer – Alexander Supertramp – The Real Deal
  • Category: Movie Reviews
    • Buried – The 1982 Alpine Meadows Avalanche – A Review
    • Rediscovering Dick Gregory – The One and Only Dick Gregory (2021) – A Review
    • Review: Country Music | A Film by Ken Burns
    • 3 Best Music Documentaries on Netflix Streaming – November 2017
    • “Smoke” (1995) by Wayne Wang – Auggie Wren and his Philosophy of Time
  • Category: Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival Awards
    • 2023 Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival SF Journal Awards
    • 2022 Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival SF Journal Awards
  • Category: Music
    • Kenny Wheeler and That Amazing Sound
    • John Boutte and Echoes of New Orleans
    • Ron Carter and the Finding the Right Notes
    • Ray Barretto in 1973
    • Overture, MIDI, GM Instruments, Audacity
    • Paul Bley – Time Will Tell – “A scale is a very ugly thing”
    • Michael Watson and Amazing Musicianship
    • Toots Thielemans – An Epic Life
    • The 2016 New Orleans Jazz Festival First Weekend Awards
    • Toots Thieleman’s Solo on Con Alma East Coast West Coast 1994
    • YouTube, Bob Marley and Following the Money Trail
    • Hunter S. Thompson Music Quote
    • Essential Toots Thielemans Albums
    • 1983 Open Letter – The Declaration of the “Sh!t Hit the Fan”
    • Toots Thielemans Solo on “Don’t Blame Me” – Jazz Harmonica Transcription
    • Category: Piano
    • Category: Harmonica
    • Category: Trombone
    • Category: Digital Audio
  • Category: Poetry
    • Symphony Bicicleta – July 2023
    • Swinging from Branches
• Category: The Sporting Scene
  • BREAKING NEWS: Man on Stand-up Paddleboard Surfs 15 to 20 Foot Wave at Ocean Beach
  • Category: Skiing
    • Donner Summit on November 14, 2021
  • Category: Surfing
• Category: Memoir
  • Minneapolis to Madison by Bicycle
  • The Virgin Guadalupe and I
• Category: Travel
  • Notes From the Road – The Midwest and Montana
  • Traveling from San Francisco to Seattle on Amtrak
  • Minneapolis to Madison by Bicycle – June 2022
  • Category: Rocky Mountains
  • Category: California North Coast
  • Category: Pacific Northwest
    • Historic Klamath River Dam Removal – Interesting Story Off the Radar
  • Category: New Orleans
  • Category: Midwestern United States
  • Category: Cuba
  • Category: Guatemala
    • Photos from Guatemala
• Category: Pick of the Week
  • Sept 21, High Noon in Every Time Zone – United Nations International Day of Peace in San Francisco
  • Bill Frisell Four at the Bijou Theater in Knoxville Tennessee
  • Catching up With Ralph Nader
  • Wil Blades Trio at Big Easy in Petaluma, California Thursday, December 1st
• Category: Quote of the Week
  • A Banquet of Consequences – Quote of the Week
  • Louis Menand Quote on History
  • Jay’s Wisdom
  • Being Impeccable With Your Word
  • Scheer Intelligence – Danny Goldberg: In Search of the Lost Chord
  • Quote of the Week
  • Ueli Streck and the Light Workout
• Category: Humor
  • Video Conferencing with Aliens
• Category: Technology
  • Open letter to Robert Thompson of NewsCorp
• Category: Repairs and Maintenance
  • How to Change the Water and Clean an Older Hot Springs Hot Tub – Spa
  • How to Defrost a Frigidaire Freezer in 2014
• Category: Psychology
  • Treating Symptoms, Not Causes – Why the United States Will Never Adopt a Single-Payer Medical System
• Category: Politics
  • Chauncey Gardiner, the Messiah Complex and How Jerzy Kosiński Got One Thing Wrong
  • Michael Cohen Warned Us In February 2019
• Category: Copyright
• Category: Slow News

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