let me tell you a slightly NSFW story

I finally joined facebook, and I plan to check it once a day in the morning.  So far, it doesn't seem that tempting cuz I can't really figure out what's going on.  

I just got back from the Stinson Beach area, so nice!  Even with the rain.  I missed a lot, including new Bow's first art opening.  Today is their first official day of business.  That's really exciting.

 Got some oysters at the Drake's Bay oyster farm.  They were good, but at this time of year some of them were really filled with eggs, or jizz, or whatever that milky gooey stuff is.  Oh welll, they still tasted all right.

 Secret beach in Bolinas area.  Email me and I'll tell you how to find it.  Or facebook me?  It's rocky but secluded.

 Rock man with seaweed for a hand

 There's a new cafe in the Pt. Reyes Station vicinity, as if that town could get any cooler.  It's Marin Sun Farms - owned by a 4th generation Pt. Reyes rancher.  This is their burger, which comes standard with bacon and cheddar, and fries fried in lard.  This was very, very good and I love the atmosphere of this place (you can eat outside sitting on hay bales), however, it was excessively rich.  I'm already eating a giant burger, I don't need you to soak the delicious pretzel bun in butter and fry the fries in lard.  Oh well, it was still awesome.  They also have other stuff such as lamb burgers with lamb bacon and a merguez sandwich.  And a good bottled beer selection.  They even have Blue Bottle coffee! Pt. Reyes is total yuppie heaven.

After the jump, I'll tell you a cool story with a tasteful, small NSFW picture that you probably won't get in trouble for looking at...

 OK, so we've had that photo on the bottom framed in our bathroom for at least a year.  I got it at the Pt. Reyes bookstore (which is a good one, although not as cheap as the crazy donation one in Bolinas) in a literary journal from the Pt. Reyes area from the '70s called "Floating Island".  I bought a copy that was all fucked up so I didn't mind cutting it up and framing the picture.  I've looked at it thousands of times, and wondered about the lady in it and the circumstances.  On Saturday, I was again in the Pt. Reyes bookstore and I decided to buy a different issue of Floating Island (I think only 3 ever came out) even though at 15 bucks it was kind of expensive, but it  had more pictures that I might want to frame.  I started chatting with the clerk about it, and mentioned I had a framed picture and she said "that's me!"  I stared at her in shock and realized indeed it was.  It was taken in 1974 when she was 22.  She still looks great!  She even told me where it was taken, in the cemetery near Pt. Reyes lighthouse.  She said she used to always go hang out there when she needed time alone.  She alluded to some pretty wild times in that area in the 70s, including some experimental theater and who knows what else.

 OK, no big deal, grilled cheese, but it's on some of my favorite bread in the world, Brickmaiden bread made right in Pt. Reyes, and it has Bellwether Farms San Andreas cheese on it, which is one of my fave California cheeses.  It's made with sheep milk.