Are you ready for an epic picture post? Do you care? Do I? After the jump.
Christine Shields and Phillip Franklin at the Villanova house Thursday night. It was beautiful. I think she's got a show coming up. Phillip is her multi-instrumental secret weapon. You can get her album at Phono Select and it's really good.
Fuck, Sonny Smith was good. I think both times I saw him this year are making my top 10 of shows. I'll post that list after the Four Eyes show, which will probably be number 1 with a bullet. He only sang two songs and then told stories and it was wild and gender-bending and saucy. He fucking rulez please someone book Sonny and the Sunsets for a show in Sac?!?!?!?
Spent the weekend in Stinson Beach. Mt. Tam was crystal clear.
Nice hike at Slide Ranch
I'm likin' this picture
So we hiked to this dome at Slide Ranch. It's at a group campsite and has a stove and sink and I was like, "fuck yeah I am booking this and having a group trip in March" and picturing the late night hangouts inside around the tables. Not so fast. It's 2100 bucks a night? Fuck that. That's some anti-hippy shit. That's for the 1%.
If you hike down to the dome you pass a grove called the bone yard and there are tons of animal bones. Some scamp had arranged the bones this way.
This goat is kind of a metaphor for life, right? Deep.
Too many beach photos I know. The birds were perfectly reflected in the wet sand and we were trying to capture it.
We ate at
Osteria Stellina in Point Reyes. I really recommend this place. Here's beans and greens.
This is baby octopus stewed in tomato with onion. It was fabulous.
This is a puntarella salad. It's a kind of chicory. Chicory must really be in season in the coastal area because it was on every menu. The puntarella had a wonderfully bitter flavor and heft to it. Dressed with a simple red wine vinaigrette.
They have good pizzas, too.
The mussels were a little anemic and the housemade sausage was just ok.
This is from Cowgirl Creamery. It's thin-sliced ham with soft Mt. Tam cheese, dijon mustard and bread and butter pickles.
On our way home we went the the Marshall Store. A spot (in Marshall, natch, on the northerly part of Tomales Bay) to sit by the bay and eat raw, smoked or bbqed oysters.
or a pulled pork sandwich.
The raw oysters were the best. The mignonette had cilantro in it. What a Cali touch.
BBQed oysters with grilled sourdough garlic bread. I will not lie, these 12 oysters set me back a painful amount.
Picked up some videos thrifting. I have high hopes that this one, on how to carve meat, from master carver Merle Ellis will be worthy to send to the Found Footage Festival guys.
Can't wait to watch this one.
16 comments:
there is nothing the man can't air guitar on.
Nothing.
-Natalie.
I won't lie. I had to be coaxed in to doing that bone solo. I don't want the ghost of some dead bobcat coming back to haunt me.
-miller
Especially Bobcat Goldthwaite.
-omf
Bobcat Goldthwaite is not dead. He is seriously bringing it lately.
Also the celebration of the virgin is going on at the church by Southside park today. With food booths.
gbomb
Straight to the Dome, a MFing $2100 hit
I hear he totally shreds.
(ghost of the bobcat not goldthwaite)
-Natalie.
Becky- you said that dome is hippie-proof? Can I get the number?
-omf
Scott saw a bobcat but I didn't see it and started freaking out that it could be a mountain lion (which they probably don't have near the coast) and made us carry big sticks and make barking noises on the rest of the hike.
I know it's boring to talk about dreams but I had the funniest liberal fantasy wet dream last night (not literally). In the dream I got to tell George Bush that he had trampled on our constitution. It was the best.
It wasn't a bobcat. It was the ghost of the bobcat whose bone I soloed on.
-miller
I've been to Drake's Bay, and yeah, it's a good idea cuz it's so much cheaper. I had just read something about the Marshall Store so I wanted to check it out. But next time I'll probably do my own.
Mountain lions can be found in coastal regions. I've seen many bobcats, coyotes and bears in the woods, but never a mountain lion. I've never met anyone who has, either. You probably don't see them until they are about to attack you.
what was the deal with the bone yard? Why all the animals bones in one place?
--knowcebo
I've twice seen mountain lions, and trust me, if you see one you'll know what it is. Where bobcats look like cute little kitties, mountain lions look like, er.. lions. LIONS WHO WILL EAT YOU!
biz
I don't know why the bones are there. It's the bone yard.
That is useful information, Biz. Scott said it looked like a cute spotted kitty.
Totally cute. My first instinct was to kneel down & put my hand out!
They move all the bones they find to that area - it's like a place to take school groups. To teach them how to do a bone solo.
-miller
I want you to be very careful when discussing teaching bone solo's to children.
-Natalie.
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