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I miss San Francisco

Tonight, I miss San Francisco … I miss A Bicycle Odyssey in Sausalito (and Tony Tom, the owner) and City Cycle in the Marina (and Clay Mankin, RIP) … I miss the Hi-Ball Lounge in North Beach and I miss Spencer’s upstairs in the back room of the DNA Lounge … and I miss the [...]

January 27th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Category: Life | Comments are closed

Loiterers not welcome

No More Perks: Coffee Shops Pull the Plug on Laptop Users – WSJ.com

A sign at Naidre’s, a small neighborhood coffee shop in Brooklyn, N.Y., begins warmly: “Dear customers, we are absolutely thrilled that you like us so much that you want to spend the day…”

But, it continues, “…people gotta eat, and to eat [...]

August 6th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Current Events, Food and Drink | Comments are closed

Wow … blast from the past …

Scenes from the swing scene at the Hi-Ball Lounge in San Francisco, late 1998 or early 1999. My then girlfriend, now ex-wife Kim shows up three times in dance sequences … she’s wearing the black suit with red top, dancing with the big guy in the blue bowling shirt (whose name I’m blanking) and [...]

March 6th, 2008 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: Life | Comments are closed

Hi-Ball Lounge, San Francisco, 1998

Hi-Ball Lounge, San Francisco, 1998 Photo copyright © 1998, Maggie Heinzel-Neel

Yeah … that’s me with the cocktail …

December 27th, 2007 | Tags: , , , | Category: Photography | Comments are closed