tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81231982024-03-07T07:51:00.564-08:00Fair Whetherdiscourse - whether fair or ill - depends upon rational confidence, not impassioned diffidencedavis,brhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00573423396253314579noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8123198.post-1103534253555742522004-12-20T01:01:00.000-08:002006-12-14T12:30:22.523-08:00true colours: a xmas taleThis is a minor riff off a comment I just made to a guest post over at Michelle's ASV ...a wonderful vignette about "The Crap Tree".So we went out for Mex' tonight; the "usual place" - Mexico '70 Cafe - over near the corner of 65th St & Folsom Blvd. Great food; they make honest-to-gawd homemade tortillas by hand! Paper thin, and "To Die For", as they say. The kids there know us: we found the davis,brhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00573423396253314579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8123198.post-1096312223111760802004-09-27T08:27:00.000-07:002005-10-28T22:05:07.146-07:00one magical eveningShake. Tap. Tap. Tap-rattle, shake.I look up from behind the counter, down toward the long-hair tapping worriedly at the store's door window ...and sigh.I'm working late, and the door's already locked ...I'm balancing up the books. Finally. Long day. I motion toward the "CLOSED" sign, but the musician (of course it's a musician: who else, at Two Street Music) has that oh-please look, and motions davis,brhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00573423396253314579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8123198.post-1095646788851022892004-09-19T18:23:00.000-07:002005-10-28T22:04:51.050-07:00a little rain, and the occasional tree, must fallSunday morning, sleeping in.Sudden loud sound, that lasts for something like five long seconds: spheezzzht-craaacht (kind of like those ground fireworks that hiss, sizzle and spin like crazy, until finally ending their dervish dance with a sharp crack). I roll to the edge of the bed, and 7:58AM stares back at me from the LCD on the Sony....and jump as startled Wife, also awakening but with a davis,brhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00573423396253314579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8123198.post-1093847260488338802004-08-29T23:27:00.000-07:002005-10-28T22:02:51.273-07:00idiot california drivers not necessarily in blue carsSaturday dawned fair and warm, always a hopeful prelude to the weekend ...and a perfect excuse to get our fat butts out of doors and on the old, lovingly cared for Raleighs: a slightly modified Twenty folder (fairly stock except for aluminum rims on the recently rebuilt wheels), and the step-through Sprite w/basket (and much improved from its stock components, with much better wheels, alloy davis,brhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00573423396253314579noreply@blogger.com