I had to go to the South Bay for work today.  On the way, I made a few quick calls - one of them back home to the South Bay in which I grew up - the one in SoCal (which is what my mind stil pulls up first when I hear “South Bay” at all).  Maybe it’s nomenclature, maybe it’s the sprawl and the lack of leafy foliage - but this more northern South Bay is comfortable to me.  Sure every freeway there is perma-under construction.  Sure it’s not SF proper.  But it’s warmer and familiar.

Of note on the drive down - a man painting on the side of 19th Ave, just North of Geary - easel and everything.  Couldn’t really tell his subject.  Further proof that in San Francisco art can happen anywhere, anytime, and in any form - even shockingly traditional forms.

Lastly - since this is partly a what to see/do/watch/eat/hear/touch kinda site - I have to praise 97.3’s nightly radio program “Chill.”  Does it make me pedestrian to admit to liking corporate radio?  Should I only fess up to BBC, NPR, maybe KFOG or others?  Probably.  Maybe my cred is gone already.  But I dig it - on Sundays from 10 - 2 and Mon - Thurs nights from 10 - 12, 97.3 plays what they describe as electronica and, uh, something else.  It’s good to blog to at night in bed.  And even better - take your walkman to Reverie (at Carl and Cole - now serving booze! will be great for my study habits!) in Cole Valley on a sunny Sunday - grab the paper, and sit on the back deck and bask in the air and the sound.

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