Trainspotter (n.): someone who has the innate ability to read extremely small, moving type, especially in the dark.

While doing some online medical research, I accidentally (I swear!) stumbled upon a French “Cyberpharmacie” featuring, among other regular prescription drugs, a brief overview of recreational substances, their use, risk and chemical properties.
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Yesterday was a special holyday in France… Actually more a kind of make-believe holiday like “grandmother day”, “secretary day”, “sauerkraut day” etc.
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Eventually managed to hook up with Cheu’s friend, Mie, who lives in Tokyo but has also been living in SF for a while…
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taken with my lovely little digital camera (impossible to whip it out without prompting a strident kawaiiiiii-ne! from every single female in a 10 feet radius)…

Anyway, these are from some small dinner parties at the house last week and a recent outing to some izakaya in Kamata. Elena going back to Brazil, the discovery of a pretty damn good bottle of California red, and the fact we just felt like it, were respectively deemed sufficient reasons for these bouts of partying.

You can see the whole lot here.

Looking for an old friend’s address, I stumbled upon BM’s website… been a long time.

Trying to stay clear of I-told-you-so’s and it-s-not-what-it-used-to-be’s, it is still hard to ignore how crassly commercial Burning Man has become…
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because every once in a while, I dip in my rather, ahem, eclectic collection of music and put whatever I get my hands on first (sometimes it can be atmospheric d’n'b, other times chopin), I was listening to some old Led Zeppelin stuff and through a brief association of thoughts, ended up reminiscing about a rather random party snapshot from a few years back…
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Ok, thanks to a conjunction of events, such as: no special plans to go out, no work tomorrow morning, some leftover brown substance donated by a friend and a mood for cooking…
I decided to make magic brownies…

Yes, I sound like I have a bit too much time on my hands…

But of course, I also cooked a large batch of regular brownies, to share with a few people. They both had a lot of success.

Quite baked right now…

Well anyway, the combination of brownies and Apocalypse Now redux was quite a success…

right now, I’m the litterary equivalent of the drunk frat-boy sticking his head out of the prom limo to yell at the passerbys. So I’ll stop here…