Took off early Friday morning/driving along the coast, The Hives punkin it up with “Go Right Ahead” on radio:
“Our god is a sinner, our king is a con
The room’s about to crumble as I burst into song…”
…Then The Dave Clark Five in a surprising rocker, “Wild Weekend,” part of great selection by British DJ Michael Des Barres’ rock n roll program on Little Steve’s Underground Garage on Sirius Radio…the new span on the Bay Bridge is such a disaster, a horse’s ass of a design; the towers look like bad special effects (compare to Golden Gate Bridge towers)…The western span of the Bay Bridge (the old one, at left) is elegant by comparison…
Graffiti at Ocean Beach, San Francisco
On my way to The Maker Faire in San Mateo…
About Lloyd Kahn
Lloyd Kahn started building his own home in the early '60s and went on to publish books showing homeowners how they could build their own homes with their own hands. He got his start in publishing by working as the shelter editor of the
Whole Earth Catalog with Stewart Brand in the late '60s. He has since authored six highly-graphic books on homemade building, all of which are interrelated. The books, "The Shelter Library Of Building Books," include
Shelter,
Shelter II (1978),
Home Work (2004),
Builders of the Pacific Coast (2008),
Tiny Homes (2012), and
Tiny Homes on the Move (2014). Lloyd operates from Northern California studio built of recycled lumber, set in the midst of a vegetable garden, and hooked into the world via five Mac computers. You can check out videos (one with over 450,000 views) on Lloyd by doing a search on YouTube:
Graffiti at Ocean Beach, San Francisco
I was a young man when the old bridge went down on my 35th birthday in 1989. This coming Oct 17th I will be 60! The process of replacing it has been a fiasco of monumental proportions in every category, timeliness, financial cost and seismic functionality. It seems this new span may be less sound than the old one! The latest failure in the news just yesterday:
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/New-Bay-Bridge-defect-could-be-trouble-in-5482092.php