Blowing Up! That's My Boy!

Have you watched the show, Beauty and the Geek? You’d be great in the makeover episode.
MM: We’re keeping the geek in the geek. I think the geek himself is beautiful and he should stay that way.

Read the interview. Then read this review. The check out the Distilled site.

If you are a skinny, geeky, fashionable man, pimp yourself out with Distilled gear. I've got a few things, and I swear to god, non-stop ladies. And I'm not skinny, geeky, or fashionable. It is crazy.

SF: Hole in the Wall Dining

Gridskipper is a cool site about city life that I never have the time to read. It is one of those millions of websites that I should check out more often (too much information, perhaps?). Check out their recommendations on "SF's Best Hole in the Wall Restaurants." I've only been to Emmy's, which was a little hip, but the meatballs and the pasta were great.

UPDATE: More from Gridskipper:

Best under $5 drinks in Chicago, where it looks like I may be next week!
And as a special treat for RM, a guide to the veggieburgers in New York!
And a special treat for me (1 for 5 this summer...)

Kim Cogan - San Francisco Cityscapes

A recent post over at JG's blog reminded me of a painter whose work I first saw at San Francisco's excellent WhiteWalls gallery with MM and EM a few months ago. Kim Cogan's paintings of San Francisco render the city as simultaneously urban, gritty, glowing, and ethereal - which manages to capture the spirit of the city pretty well. While his large canvas cityscapes are my favorites, capturing broad expanses of the city bathed in wonderful light, his street-level details are also excellent, capturing familiar street corners and underpasses with the same qualities of broad-brush stroke warmth and wetness as his more expansive landscapes. The paintings displayed on his website are well worth a look: www.kimcogan.com.

Underappreciated Comedians Series: Kasper Hauser

Kasper Hauser represent everything I failed to be. In a small sliver of my world. I.e, the ex-Sam Park Revue, the ex-OvalShow and their "legacy." Kasper Hauser are our forebears - irreverent, smart, and worst of all, funny. And on top of it all, functioning professionals and good human beings.

Truth is, Kasper Hauser have a tough job. In the profoundly awesome, open, beautiful, but unfunny and non-judgemental San Francisco, the boys of KH have made some of the weirdest, most touching, most disturbing, and most belly-shaking sketch comedy this side of, well, of the UCB.

PS - check out the awesome but illicit SkyMaul catalogue.

PPS - Check out their Craigslist postings.

San Francisco in Jell-O

From SF-based artist Liz Hickock. Courtesy of MM.