So, it's not a Pulitzer....
Jul. 19th, 2008 07:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gurdymonkeyBut I submitted a couple of photos to the SF Chronicle's website and they seemed happy enough to take 'em.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/contribute/sn/photo?plckPhotoID=b93f935a-2719-459a-893b-d00a5da307c9&plckGalleryID=ebd3d576-0841-4ad1-b61b-ae24969a801a
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/contribute/sn/photo?plckPhotoID=99155e48-b1ac-40c1-b74b-7e5b87f2f93e&plckGalleryID=ebd3d576-0841-4ad1-b61b-ae24969a801a
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/contribute/sn/photo?plckPhotoID=c256498d-b4c3-4276-aae8-7a1079c8b210&plckGalleryID=5e261a99-201b-4fd4-a059-88e7360a0850
I had my tea and still felt cold and thought, "I know, it won't be cold on the other side of the hill." I drove up to Walnut Creek, turned the wrong way on Mount Diablo Boulevard, so I decided to stop at the Ross up there on the principle that it would not be as picked over as the ones down here. It wasn't, but I didn't really love anything enough to take it home. Went back down Main Street in the right direction. Woe, Bonanza Books is gone. So I hopped onto 680 and went up a couple exits into Concord.
Bay Books is still in the strip mall on Willow Pass Road. (Yay!) Found that budget copy of Northanger Abbey, the ceramics and pottery volume from the Heibonsha Survey of Japanese Art (and for $8.95 too), and, of all things, a paperback on the making of the miniseries Shogun. Most of the production stills are in B&W and the quality is at best so-so, but the costume design sketches and color stills were well worth the $10 I dropped on it. Costume designer Shin Nishida is shown sitting at a desk littered with books, one open to a page showing this painting of early Edo beauties! (Look!. A kosode with BUNNIES on it. And the woman in the dark kosode with the gold roundels, second panel from the left - she looks like me! Well, a bit.) And yeah, Richard Chamberlain did cut a fine figure in wafuku back in the day - even with all that fluffy 80's hair.
Took a spin through the nearby Cost Plus on basic general principle and picked up a bottle of sake that was in the wine clearance bin but had a date stamp on the label that didn't make me immediately set it down again. It can go for the HCM* party at Purgatorio.
Unfortunately, my headache is back.
It occurs to me that the person who was looking for a bagpiper for Purgatorio has not gotten back to me in more than a week. I tried. I am not going to chase him down. Ball is in his court.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/contribute/sn/photo?plckPhotoID=b93f935a-2719-459a-893b-d00a5da307c9&plckGalleryID=ebd3d576-0841-4ad1-b61b-ae24969a801a
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/contribute/sn/photo?plckPhotoID=99155e48-b1ac-40c1-b74b-7e5b87f2f93e&plckGalleryID=ebd3d576-0841-4ad1-b61b-ae24969a801a
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/contribute/sn/photo?plckPhotoID=c256498d-b4c3-4276-aae8-7a1079c8b210&plckGalleryID=5e261a99-201b-4fd4-a059-88e7360a0850
I had my tea and still felt cold and thought, "I know, it won't be cold on the other side of the hill." I drove up to Walnut Creek, turned the wrong way on Mount Diablo Boulevard, so I decided to stop at the Ross up there on the principle that it would not be as picked over as the ones down here. It wasn't, but I didn't really love anything enough to take it home. Went back down Main Street in the right direction. Woe, Bonanza Books is gone. So I hopped onto 680 and went up a couple exits into Concord.
Bay Books is still in the strip mall on Willow Pass Road. (Yay!) Found that budget copy of Northanger Abbey, the ceramics and pottery volume from the Heibonsha Survey of Japanese Art (and for $8.95 too), and, of all things, a paperback on the making of the miniseries Shogun. Most of the production stills are in B&W and the quality is at best so-so, but the costume design sketches and color stills were well worth the $10 I dropped on it. Costume designer Shin Nishida is shown sitting at a desk littered with books, one open to a page showing this painting of early Edo beauties! (Look!. A kosode with BUNNIES on it. And the woman in the dark kosode with the gold roundels, second panel from the left - she looks like me! Well, a bit.) And yeah, Richard Chamberlain did cut a fine figure in wafuku back in the day - even with all that fluffy 80's hair.
Took a spin through the nearby Cost Plus on basic general principle and picked up a bottle of sake that was in the wine clearance bin but had a date stamp on the label that didn't make me immediately set it down again. It can go for the HCM* party at Purgatorio.
Unfortunately, my headache is back.
It occurs to me that the person who was looking for a bagpiper for Purgatorio has not gotten back to me in more than a week. I tried. I am not going to chase him down. Ball is in his court.
