5 posts tagged “bay area”

Part of the joy of the internet is it allows me to find music without having to find music. Old news, right?

Check her out. Hopie Spitshard. She's from SF. She's not a woman doing hip hop. She's doing hip hop and she happens to be a woman.

LUV HER!

Apparently it's snowing in other parts of the country.

Not here.

 

Folks like different types of weather.  I love a nice blustery day.  I love rain too.  Prime cuddlin' weather.  I do NOT do well in the heat.  I'm impartial to Spring and only dislike Winter cus people drive like they don't know how when it gets super wet out. 

Some people think they Bay Area doesn't have seasons.  I beg to differ.  We get hot (72 degrees).  We get cold (53 degrees).  DON'T TELL ME WE DON'T HAVE SEASONS!!

Anyway.  My neighbors are having seasonal changes right now.

Floyd likes the snow.

Babette hates it.

I just thought it was funny to read both of these posts on the same neighborhood update page. 

I almost started an email with 'Hella' instead of 'Hello.'

 

 

My girl Lilia is up for Best of the Bay in the photography category.  Go check out her website and you'll see why she's the awesome-est.  Vote for her!

I wanted to be a news anchor growing up.

And it was, in part, because of Dennis Richmond.

His delivery and respect-commanding demeanor.  His tone of voice.  His stoicism while reporting news in the Bay Area; an area known for protests and progress and change.  In getting news, we need delivery without a hint of persuasion.  Without an eyebrow raise or a mouth twitch, hinting at taking one side or the other.  Without sensationalism or sarcasm or elitism or down-play-ism, Dennis Richmond delivered to us. 

He told us about Polly Klaas and the Moscone-Milk assassinations and Jonestown and Patty Hearst and Oakland and Richmond's (towns we know, towns we love) debilitatingly high murder rates and Ms. Kearney-Brown (my tenth-grade math teacher) and our tree huggers lovers and everything about the Bay Area, about the stories we need to know.  He's done this for almost 40 years.

He overcame prostate cancer and is a chairperson with Alameda County's YMCA fundraising drive and is on the board of directors for a child abuse organization.  He's a dad and a husband. 

I have an affinity Dennis Richmond.  If you are from here, maybe you'd understand.  I will miss you, Dennis Richmond.  And so will a whole lot of other people.

Please watch and enjoy.

Photos from The Poop.