Hippy Bertha to my Pop!

...And also to {{Adrienna}}
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Hearing good things about the NH Ratdog show..Adding that to my wishlist.
I've seen a lot of great photos of the recewnt shows. Check Dozin.Com's pix. They hadnt put em at the site just yet but some of the shots are bound to be up on the dot org photosite.
PIX HERE TOO
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Quick Bobby fix
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Just ireniestuff below....
Managed to drag myself away from the TV & computer coverage of the flood.
Friday, returned to SF for the weekly walkabout. Met a friend at BART and we headed down 24th (the South Van Ness direction)
Our first stop was at the Mission Cultural Center which was a multifloored maze of studios. They were in the process of setting up a new exhibit, but we wandered through anyway. What a great place to create art.
Visited the Precita center -a combo of a gathering space for muralists and a supply shop. One can also go there to find a guide-a docent or a brochere-to see the murals. It's next door to Balmy Alley which is full of murals.
One mural depicting violence in Africa borrowed a quote from Yeats which so struck me wrt the whole delay with getting help to the Gulf region:
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned;
All in all, the murals were totally inspiring. Scott's been after me to do something in the den...I think it's because the wallpaper is driving him nuts- it doesnt really bother me.
Other fun finds in that part of the Mission were a high quality Mexican craft gallery/store and Phil's organic coffee shop.
Home again and back into CNNland for Larry King...Was glad to see Irvin Mayfield (Sat in with Ratdog 2000,NOLA)is okay but sad that he was/is missing family members. He said something about starting a collection of instruments to give to the street musicians of NOLA who lost everything..If anyone out here knows anything more about that- please fwd the info to me. We may be able to help out with that.
Rest of the weekend has been busy. Had a party to go to last night and today we checked out the King Mountain Art fest (located in Woodside).