Maybe you’re wondering, while you sit at work and gaze out at the sunshine, or take a walk to coffee and listen to the birds, what is Caffe Trieste like? Well, here it is.

Oddnesses of life in North Beach: there is a slight brou-ha-ha over the shooting in Coit Tower two weeks ago. Something about how the citizens of Tel-Hi want more police, but neighborhoods like Hunter’s Point need more police with shootings 2Xweek, vs. once a year (tel-hi’s rate). Meeting tonight at the Tel-hi neighborhood center to chat with police and perhaps the Mayor. Will report back if I manage to lift myself off couch and walk the two blocks to the neighborhood center. I was trying to relate the gravity of this Teel-Hi shooting to a sibling in Baltimore, but it just doesn’t really work when, what, 1 in 3 black men in Baltimore under the age of 25 will die. The biggest crime I’m worried about is a tourist falling under a cable car. I mean, those cable cars don’t have brakes the way they careen through intersections.