SWATboy Reunion Summer 2004
Bay Area-wide
Brad and Jay came out to hang in SF for a
few days. Even though I've lived here for over 20 years, I'd never beem to
Alcatraz. Brad wanted to go, so off we went to Fisherman's Wharf. We
saw wildlife. Brad had an exotic
camera, which made him look not at all like a
tourist. We marveled at the attractive, cozy studio apartments with Bay views available on the island.
Brad tried one of them on for size and found it snug and authentic, if a little "broken in". I was
having a bad hair day - no, actually, that's the
paper mache head used by the Clint Eastwood character in "Escape from Alcatraz"
to fool the night check by the guards during the only escape attempt that
might have actually worked. The screws like to say the sharks got
'em, but you never know.
Then we met up with Jay and headed out to the
Hoadleys'. Brad wound up in the women's
bathroom at BART. That was funny. We sang the old songs and told the old stories while
we waited for Jim to pick us up in Walnut Creek. Jim picked us up,
and then he sang the old songs and told the old
stories, too. Jim proved manliness in the barbeque pit. We wallowed in the dappled
sunshine of Jim and Dot's hillside 60's house, posed for the
latest in a series, then went out
for ice cream (Cold Stone, overrated). A splendid day around the Bay
with the SWATboys.
Also and later: Brad and the Bs went to see the rumored-to-be-cool
art in a church on Potrero Hill. It lived up to its billing - saints (official and not so) dance around the walls and the night sky decorates
the ceiling - also here, here's lady godiva, here's
john muir, here's a nice man with a bear and
here's ella fitzgerald and anne frank.
An unlikely but interesting outing.
We also went to dinner at Peña Pacha Mama in North Beach, had a
fine Peruvian dinner (appetizers, dinners
one, two and three) and saw one
of the manifestations of Ancient Future. Brad, ever cosmopolitan, had
a mojito, and yes that is a cocktail joke. There are other scenes from
this reunion that you might enjoy - here's a fishcar
on the embarcadero, an only-slightly-doctored shot
on the border of north beach and chinatown and a figleaf.
There are additional images from the Alcatraz trip here.
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