We discussed this before , the Riverside Café in two of its emanations, (1) as a proper river-side café and (2) as a hill-top café in Ph...

Our title is misleading, as usual. And unfair to Warhol. Anyhow, while we are at it: somewhere around 1966, the term Pop Art made it to E...

Nordstrom on Market Street, San Francisco Michael A. to Nick Ch. (02 May 2014 07:25:14): ...just great to be in the US...so many ide...

While Chang and I were strolling through San Francisco yesterday, the conversation turned to the peculiarities of the street layout here, ea...

More from Redwooood Country north of the Bay Area where we are staying during the weekend, thanks to an invite of Karen, our landlady in Sa...

À la recherche du temps perdu...along those lines: how does one manage to arrive in San Francisco? We apparently can't make it stick. So...

Harvey Milk, former (and assasinated) gay mayor of San Francisco (Another picture from the superb artist Tony de Carlo , whom we discov...

We posted this once before, a year ago, in a post "not about erotic writing," and in blissful ignorance of our future. So here it ...

We arrive at San Francisco SFO (San Francisco International Airport, why SFO?) and the international press, the paparazzi ("paps")...

Potrero Hill, that's where we reside, on 1229 de Haro Street. "Potrero" means paddock in English, and the place probably was...

We're in San Francisco now, which means that the first thing in the morning would be a trip to Telegraph Road , Oakland, CA, where Morn...

Lets start with a picture:  Malaysia Airline advertisement (as found on Facebook; perhaps you can explain to us why a normal Boing 777 h...

Right. "Das Kunstwerk im Zeitalter..." Even readers of The New Yorker will know, this was Walter Benjamin . What they don't kn...

We know, we know, we should focus more; this has nothing to do with the mission of this blog. Anyhow, here it is, a Lufthansa Airbus 380 lan...