Some of my best friends from New York City and San Francisco came together this weekend to rent a house at Lake Tahoe. We had 13 people at the table and Dav had a clever photo idea:
I shot the same moment from the Apostles’ point of view:
(Click the photo thumbnails to view originals on Flickr).
“You have only to take that one step toward the gods, and they will then take ten steps toward you.” – Joseph Campbell
“If you take three steps toward the gods they will accidentally trample you. Then they will curse and scrape you off their boots like dog doo.” – Campbell Joseph
“There are no bedbugs in the forest, because there are no beds in the forest.”
Directions:
1. Download and open this PDF file.
2. Buy a pack of 3 1/3″ x 4″ white inkjet mailing labels. (About US$10 for 150 at any office supply store).
3. Print the PDF file on the labels.
4. Apply labels.
Doing this early and often will bring you good luck.
Want to alter it? Here’s the original Word template file.
Separated at Birth?
Rocket Dog Shoes (founded 1997):
…and my neighborhood coffee house,
Duboce Park Cafe (founded 2006):
UPDATE: Quick, look: www.duboceparkcafe.com
“Customer service needed in the antacids department. Customer service needed in the antacids department.”
Note to self:
To avoid looking like a suburban dentist or lawyer, never get:
- a tattoo
- a shaved head
- anything made by Harley Davidson
I returned from holidays on the East Coast to find this postcard in my mailbox. It’s the guys from Meetro (a startup here in San Francisco) done up like Bill Gates and the first Microsoft team back in the 70s.
Bravo, Paul & co. Details here.
For several weeks it seemed the Shaker thang going down around here was just another flash-in-the-pan San Francisco quirk:
But now our correspondents are chiming in about similar happenings from the sidewalks of Milan:
…to the boutiques of Shibuya:
Now the pattern is clear. For Spring 2007, woodcut is the new black. You heard it here first.
Hemingway wrote a classic 6-word story, supposedly on a bet: “For sale: baby shoes, never used.” (In my book, just one supershort story tops that: Julius Caesar’s classic “Veni, vidi, vici.”)
Flickr’s Caterina Fake sent out a call for new 6-word stories. What fun! I threw these into the mix:
