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And for the kitchen...
Now I'll be able to see the palm trees outside our window when I do the dishes, and, I won't have to wonder how my hair looks as I feed the cats at 6:00 a.m. while my neighbor gets dressed.
2) Drive-thru ATMs that look like zombie brain juice filling stations?
3) Sonya Sohn (Kima from The Wire) is pretty amazing in person, too. She talked about having grown up in the projects and how she hated cops and how triggering it was to be in the neighborhoods of Baltimore, looking into the windows of houses just like her own, disassociating, and then running around a corner on queue to play a cop for the show. It was pretty intense but also really inspiring. After the show she got involved first in doing get-out-the-vote stuff in the projects for the Obama campaign, and then starting an organization, ReWired for Change, to use The Wire as a teaching tool to see if she can make a difference in East Baltimore. Pretty cool.
Sonya Sohn with Susan Sherman (my mentor and adviser at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health), 8th National Harm Reduction Conference, Austin, TX, November 19, 2010
The next day is Election Day and El Dia de Los Muertos. Hundreds of thousands of people rush to San Francisco to see the 11:00 a.m. parade. BART is crowded like a NY subway.
Traffic on the Hwy 101 is backed up all the way to Santa Rosa to North. Montgomery Station is so packed it's shut down. The remaining BART revelers ride on to Civic Center in style.
Little kids and old folks look fabulous in black and orange.
I think of Pete Morse (RIP), fan of all things orange, and how happy he would be to see Market St. awash in the hue of bright raver pants.
The crowd is so thick I can't see much of the parade, but I do see Giants player Audrey Huff waving his wife's red thong, which he wore for good luck during games.
And witness with awe a beautiful, shared moment in San Francisco history.
What a way to end 2010. (That's all for the sports enthusiasm, I swear!)
