Hello Internet
Posted on | February 19, 2009 | 12 Comments
Hi Fan Club,
Back Fence PDX was last night and it was off the hook. So good. The tellers were on fire, the audience was in a great mood. It was just marvelous. I’m so proud to co-produce the show. Brew did some video. And I recorded it using Garage Band so we can get some MP3’s happening. It was just great!
And, if you missed out on paying to watch me speak to you, please know you can still do that! You can pay $65 for me and MediaChick to skool you on social media on Saturday. Link to the class here. There’s free lunch and by the time you’re done, you’ll have a nice, solid grasp on social media and how to write for the internets.
Finally, Recovering Californian has entered into a partnership with Face of the Cookie for a new blog feature without a name. Maybe someone can come up with a name? Yes, please come up with a name. Anyway, here’s the deal, Kiala and I were not meant to be apart. What’s more, my shiny-haired friend is living in a city that basically invented the sanctimonious white liberal. It’s ground zero for food snobbery and this repellent under-handed classism unique to former hippies, which involves said former hippies pandering to anyone of a different race, but the person working behind the counter at the Starbucks is nothing more than shit on their shoes. People in San Francisco never, ever make eye contact. EVER. Giving someone your phone number is a great way to ensure they will never call you. San Francisco is so isolating, it verges on soul-scorching. And before anyone jumps on me and defends the City by the Bay, know that I lived there for ten years.
And there’s Kiala. Living there and doing yoga. A lot of yoga.
Well, no more Internet. No more.
There are some cool things about San Francisco. And Kiala has yet to find them. So I’m going to send her out on assignments to go and find these cool things the city has to offer. And she’s going to send me out to find cool Portland stuff because, while I love this city, it can be *ahem* difficult to live in a city of half a million people, after living in San Francisco and LA.
We will give our assignments out on our blogs, and then the assignee will document her experience on her own blog.
Without further ado–
Kiala’s first assignment:
San Francisco loves giving a hand out to artists. This was especially true in the depression when everyone was broke but artists were like, hey! Money! There are a ton of WPA art projects that remain in San Francisco, including the amazing murals at the Beach Chalet, and some Diego Rivera work at City College. But Beach Chalet is at the beach, which is sort of far from Kiala, and City College is located in the armpit of San Francisco.
My favorite murals are in Coit Tower in North Beach. I loved them so much, Steve and I used to sit in the free part of Coit Tower and spend an afternoon with some pastels and sketch different parts. We were talking about this last night and how odd it was that suddenly I thought, “Oh, I know that I draw worse than a koala bear with a sharpie and a shred of toilet paper, but yes, let’s go sketch at Coit Tower!” But we did it. A lot. And it was really, really fun.
So, Krazybee you must go to Coit Tower and check out / draw the murals inside.
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February 19th, 2009 @ 9:36 am
This is going to be fantastic!!!!
I wish somebody send me to go do something.
February 19th, 2009 @ 9:37 am
would. Dammit.
I wish somebody would send me to go do something.
Like lean how to fucking write for christ sake.
February 19th, 2009 @ 9:39 am
Oh it’s happening! I will go to there! I am thinking of an assignment for you. Thinking thinking thoughting.
February 19th, 2009 @ 9:50 am
Ohhh! I want an assignment! And I want to GIVE assignments! I think I just like the word assignment.
February 19th, 2009 @ 10:19 am
Okay–call it COOL STUFF.
Then please find SOMETHING in MY town for me to investigate and write about. PULLLEEEEZZZZZEEEEE.
February 19th, 2009 @ 10:21 am
I should have added……HALF A MILLION PEOPLE? Try 38,000. Seriously. Just for a weekend. TRY IT.
February 19th, 2009 @ 12:07 pm
Next up: Kiala takes the ferry to Sausalito and back.
February 19th, 2009 @ 2:46 pm
You two are taking over the Internet with this! I am in full support.
February 19th, 2009 @ 5:03 pm
Last night was a blast! My entourage and I were VERY entertained and had a marvelous time. Too good, for some. The boyo woke up sick this morning, it was so good! OY!
Anyway, I’d like for you to call the blog, SUPERBAD! or something that’s totally rad and cool like that. Totally.
OR you could mix your two blog names and call it Recovering the Cookie. Hmmm… if you think about it, it’s kinda what you’re doing isn’t it? I’m reaching aren’t I?
Ok fine. Call it Purple Princess and be done with it! (This is the name of the soccer team of 5 year olds that keeps trouncing my best friend Ava’s team, the Pink Panthers…so it’s gotta be badass, right?)
February 19th, 2009 @ 5:59 pm
This is such a great idea!! I can’t wait to see what Kiala comes up with for you.
And when are you going to do backfence pdx on a friday or a saturday night so I can experience all the fun?!
February 20th, 2009 @ 9:26 am
That’s so weird because I was just recommending to a co-worker this morning where she should go in San Francisco because she is going to be taking a trip there. Sounds like a muy buena idea.
February 20th, 2009 @ 11:29 am
i could give the two of you an “assignment” you wouldn’t soon forget.
while on a leash held by my wife, no less.