Hustler of Culture
“Many indeed, who enjoy retreat only in imagination, content themselves with believing that another year will transport them to rural tranquility, and die while they talk of doing, what if they had lived longer they never would have done.” — Samuel Johnson
San Francisco, Thursday, 9:52 PM, March 6, 2026.
“Movement is a Blessing” — Egyptian Proverb, translated from the Arabic “Haraka Baraka” (via Rob Long’s Martinti Shot Podcast).
“The counterculture is always a mixture of ecstasy and depravity. “If you’re going to have a Ken Kesey, you are going to have a Charles Manson“
As seen in the book Season of the Witch by David Talbot) a great history of the 1960s and 70s in San Francisco I am currently reading. Has so many implications for how we study subcultures. Read it weeks ago am still thinking about it.
"Draw, Antonio, draw. And do not waste time"
— from a sketch/reminder Michaelangelo made to himself. Found in the draw of his desk after he died.
San Francisco, 3:10 PM, July 1, 2019
7.6.2019. 2:45 PM. San Francisco's Mission District
Short video biographies of the actors who do the interstitial sketches on your favorite albums.
Home. San Francisco, CA. 3:10 PM. February 27, 2019.
3:30 PM, Sunday, December 15, 2018. Bywater, New Orleans.