http://sfbulldog.com/alexandra Sun, 17 Aug 2008 21:32:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en of the 2008 Hard Drive Data Retrieval OlympicsSTAGED BY POWERBOOK GUYin Suite 1090 of the historic Flood Building at 870 Market Street. They recovered a great big part of my past, which I am always reluctant to part with, and for this they deserve the highest accolades, or at ... http://sfbulldog.com/alexandra/2008/08/16/axfiles-0838/ Or are you boring?OR AM I BORING YOU?Is your brain not being stimulated? And I am the one not stimulating it? Or are you the one not stimulating it? I can't imagine having nothing to do. Not because I always am doing something--I'm plenty capable of ... http://sfbulldog.com/alexandra/2008/08/11/axfiles-0837/ the more prizes.UNPACKING UNMARKED BOXESof treasures or trash, I run across a wooden box of miscellany, a carved parrot on the lid. Contained therein are a flattened penny and quarter, that my true-blue buddies Pete and Tom, at Union Station Portland to see me off, had placed on the tracks ... http://sfbulldog.com/alexandra/2008/07/31/axfiles-0836/ wilt I find peaceIN THE MIDST OF CHAOSThou wilt find peace, was a “fortune” handed to me at a Renaissance Fair in Oregon. Fortune, refrigerator magnet motto, blessing or prayer—of the many things it may be, I know only that it was handed to me.  I have it wedged into ... http://sfbulldog.com/alexandra/2008/07/30/axfiles-0835/ Time flies when you’re having none. REMINDS ME OF THE LINE from “House of Games,” “Happens to the best, happens to the rest.” A reader commented, on “How the Tempus Fugits,” that the tempus fugits even when you’re not having fun, perhaps more so. True over the long haul, I ... http://sfbulldog.com/alexandra/2008/07/22/axfiles-0834/ when you’re having fun!!! MORE INPUT ON “THE SECRET” to creative longevity and prolificacy. David Amram has provided the answer to Philip Glass’s inquiry, “Get up in the morning and work all day. That’s the secret. Is there another one?” Yes. Have fun while you’re doing it. I don’t really see Philip ... http://sfbulldog.com/alexandra/2008/07/16/axfiles-0833/ it was looking for me.AND IT FOUND ME.Well, it’s the Fourth of July, which I hate and never celebrate because it was the last whole day of my beloved Jackson’s life. Zazu sleepily raises her head when a furious fussilade of whistling fireworks goes off outside my kitchen window, ... http://sfbulldog.com/alexandra/2008/07/10/axfiles-0832/ pride--gay and otherwise WELL, I MISSED THE OPPORTUNITY to play “gay for a day” with my great Brooklyn friends Jon and Oscar. I had other things to be proud of. They arrived Friday on the Coast Starlight from Seattle, bemoaning the lack of gay visibility in Seattle, a travesty balanced ... http://sfbulldog.com/alexandra/2008/06/30/axfiles-0831/ Place between two roasted garlic Triscuits BUT FIRST admire the beauty and power of your shroom. Turn it slowly in your hands. Take note of the gradations of color, the blue veining, the wrinkles and gills so concentrated with magic it’s already radiating in your hand… Wow, that was an ... http://sfbulldog.com/alexandra/2008/06/26/axfiles-0830/ And don’t throw your shoes at anybody. NO SIR, YES SIR! My shoes? I ask, when I keep beeping going through security at City Hall. I’m wearing a sterling silver rattle dangling from a mother-of-pearl teething ring I made into a necklace, so I take that off and keep beeping. ... http://sfbulldog.com/alexandra/2008/06/21/axfiles-0829/