Staying home
I’ve been wearing the same shorts for a week now / Just noticed they’re actually swim trunks / Money is acting all weird / I paid my stylist not to…
2020
Pancetta and crimini mushroom risotto stuffed peppers. Cast iron seared...
asparagus. #cucinamia
The virtual music/dance calendar is filling up! Let me or...
Joaquin Cunanan know if you want your event listed
Demonstration of my family's recipe for Sicilian meatballs...
Click for video:Demonstration of my family's recipe for Sicilian meatballs https: / medium.com/cucina-mia/rigatoni-e-polpette-94d95ea2c065 /…
Jeneen is spot on to think about the future. What do we...
want the post-COVID-19 world to look like? Do we want our favorite restaurants and venues and all of our wonderful bands to be there for us? Then now…
#MAGA?
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Lacey vs. Gascón: The Devil You Know vs. The Devil You Don’t
As of yesterday, in the race to pick Los Angeles’s next District Attorney, it became mathematically impossible for Jackie Lacey to avoid a runoff…
Is “late deciding voters” journospeak for “our polls sucked?”Is “late...
Is “late deciding voters” journospeak for “our polls sucked?”
This morning Deborah Denehy and I...
Click for video:This morning Deborah Denehy and I performed a lead-follow (no choreo) lindyhop routine to Big Joe Turner's Switchin' in the Kitchen…
So happy to support my dear friend and teacher @[1581014910:2048:Deborah...
So happy to support my dear friend and teacher Deborah Denehy this morning by being her dance partner for her performance at her school’s…
Despite all the facts about my case being on public display (see:...
Bikelash: How San Francisco created America's first bicycle felon), Gascón's campaign staff is calling me a murderer. I know everyone's focused on…
Chris BucchereThe ChainI'd rather be playing accompanist and sound engineer...
to Madeline than political hatchetman to George Gascón, but this weekend afforded me a little time for both.
Will always cherish this memory. Taking my daughter...
Click for video:Will always cherish this memory. Taking my daughter Madeline to see Theo Katzman/Vulfpeck for her first concert at the Fillmore!
Liberals Against Gascónfacebook.comThe former San Francisco District...
Attorney—George Gascón—who framed me for a fatal bicycle/pedestrian accident in 2013, is now running for DA in Los Angeles as a Democrat. (More on my…
Liberals Against Gascónfacebook.comWith so much insanity at the national...
level, it's easy to forget that there are plenty of awful things happening locally too. George Gascón—the DA who lied to the media over and over and…
Okay, something not about our asshole president: a coworker showed me a...
replica of his 1920s-era "driving watch." If worn on the inside left wrist, the ~20° clockwise rotation meant that drivers could easily get an analog…
This is nothing short of fucking terrifying. The...
rapture/end-times/apocalypse is a DELUSION, people. Unless we make it real.
My happiness that we're supposedly not going to engage in (these) war crimes...
is overshadowed by my fear of our government's utter and complete dysfunction.
I haven't seen Sienna but I'll keep an eye out. In the meantime, I have to...
tell you that your public library quote is sad, hilarious, and awesome.
“Psychological projection is a defence mechanism in which the human ego...
defends itself against unconscious impulses or qualities by denying their existence in themselves while attributing them to others.”
I’m not feeling super ambitious but I think I can do a little better with my...
New Year’s Resolutions
2019
Dancing with Kate at Cat's
Grant captured this great photo just before lindyhop—and anything like it—was shut down due to the pandemic.
One way to assess the quality of a workplace is by the number of *former*...
* team members who visit. Second one today at Lab Zero
STD Testing
So we kinda had the talk / Me and my newish girlfriend / We’d been friends for years / But only lovers for a few months / It felt silly / We were…
22 hand-picked live music events where you can lindyhop this Thursday,...
Friday, Saturday, and Sunday in the Bay Area. Do you have an excuse for not dancing? If so, this ain't it. Full calendar: https: / bit.ly/sflindycal
With his permission, sharing the wise words of my new friend and mentor,...
Master Luke Kilpatrick
Madeline and I lindyhopped away our blues to the...
Crescent City Maulers' first set at Swing 46 Jazz And Supper Club in New York City - Manhattan - Nyc last night. As we were leaving, the entire club…
My beloved 96-year-old grandmother Antoinette "Nellie" DiBona passed away on...
Monday surrounded by family members and loved ones. Tomorrow, we will lay her to rest beside my grandfather in Staten Island. Grandma Nellie…
If you plan carefully and show a little hustle, it might be possible to beat...
the record Deborah and I set by dancing at SEVEN live shows tonight. Don't forget about KnoWhere! Their schedule isn't publicized, but they've been…
When you walk into a wine bar in San Francisco, they're playing swing music,...
and THIS TIME, the bartender turns out to be a baller lindyhopper. (What is it, exactly, with me, wine bars, and swing music?)
Burratta caprese, rigatoni e polpette, rosé poached pears, and a key lime...
pie with marshmallow cream meringue from Madeline. My dear friend Natalie supplied the tomatoes, Anaheim chillis, and pears from her garden/orchard.…
No dancers at the Jellyroll People in Plazas lunchtime show today.No dancers...
No dancers at the Jellyroll People in Plazas lunchtime show today.
The bartender scowled at us and had a really bad attitude. I guess I forgot...
that I was there to serve her and not the other way around.
Maddy’s working on a new uke arrangement for ImagineMaddy’s...
Click for video:Maddy’s working on a new uke arrangement for ImagineMaddy’s working on a new uke arrangement for Imagine
Hiya! My lindyhopper friend Diana Lopez might be in Oahu in the next few...
days. Could you give her the royal treatment like you did for me and Sara? ;-)
Our 4-track cover of Someone You Loved by Lewis Capaldi
Click for video:Our 4-track cover of Someone You Loved by Lewis Capaldi / Maddy: vocals and ukulele / Me: vocals and pianoOur 4-track cover of…
I don’t like doing dishes
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