Category: Marcus

A letter from Uncle Frank

I wrote a letter to Uncle Frank and Aunt Wilda to send them my eatsforone.com business card and ask for their e-mail address. Yesterday, I got a letter back and it contained some interesting information, so I thought I would transcribe it to share with you.

February 22, 2006
Frank Hodgson & Wilda Rector
523 E Ladonna Dr
Tempe AZ 85283-2886

Dear Marc & Carol,
Just a reminder of our address — you sent your letter to 530! Our postman, Tom Walters, from Ohio changed it to 523! So even after almost 39 years in Arizona we still have an Ohio connection.

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Ghirardelli Square three months later

It’s such a beautiful day today!

I”d been busy writing all morning and hadn”t been out. After lunch I needed to go out and sit on a bench in the sun and read. I”m reading Writing Los Angeles: A Literary Anthology, and although I only started it yesterday, I”ve read Truman Capote, two stories by M.F.K. Fisher and six poems by Bertolt Brecht as well as some journal excerpts.

Just now I read the last entry, Beneath Mulholland by David Thompson where he imagined “Marilyn Monroe, fifty miles long, lying on her side, half buried on a ridge of crumbling rock.” It’s so refreshing to read literature after immersing myself in The Recipe Writer’s Handbook, Will Write for Food and Eats, Shoots and Leaves, although the latter is whimsical as well as informative.

Ghirardelli Square is close by, haven”t been there for a good while, they have comfortable benches in the sun.

Look what I found…
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An evening with Robert Towne

Robert Town in Last Woman On EarthI sat in the 4th row on the left aisle, Robert Towne arrived at the appointed time and sat in 2nd row, 2nd seat in front of me and nuzzled against a young Asian woman, obviously a colleague.

Immediately, a film strip with scenes from a number of his films started playing:

  • The Last Detail
  • Chinatown
  • Godfather
  • Shampoo
  • Tequila Sunrise
  • Personal Best

ending with a digital clip from his new film Ask the Dust which will open March 17.
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Unknown White Male

Unknown White Male

Unknown White Male (2005 )
Directed by Rupert Murray
Genre: Documentary
Tagline: If you lost your past, would you want it back?
Plot Outline: The true story of Doug Bruce who woke up on Coney Island with total amnesia. This documentary follows him as he rediscovers himself and the world around him.
Credited cast: Doug Bruce …. Himself

IMDB Page — iFilm Page

An unknown white male, mid-thirties in age, wakes up on a New York subway train passing through the environs near Coney Island, the last stop on the line. He is in wholly unfamiliar surroundings, industry and apartment blocks, gritty. At the end of the line, he has the facility to find his way off the subway to the street, he has no idea where he is, who he is or what to do about it.
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corridor of caps

I’ve amassed some caps over the years.

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Go Sox! Purchased at the souvenir shop across from Fenway Park. MLB model with no adjustment strap.

Go Giants! Purchased at Candlestick Park. The pins are for special games and such (like first interleague game vs. A’s, viewed in Tom’s corporate Tri Valley box [see future cap]).

SAAB A Christmas gift from Tom.

Fenway Park 75th Anniversary… passed out at the annual Patriots Day Game.
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Go Dogs!

“Is that a Portland Sea Dogs cap?”

I”m standing in line at the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market bank machine. Forgot to bring money this Saturday.

Winter is a strange time at the market. We”re looking at winter vegetables and stuff that stores well – beets, carrots, cabbage and the like — not the most exciting selection. Of course there is always meat and cheese and eggs and citrus. Way fewer farmers show up, there are no tourists and only the most die-hard shoppers, like me, bother to show up.

“It is,” I said.
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Unique Art in San Francisco

Recently, I went to see three new pieces of art in San Francisco that couldn”t be more different from each other; four, if you count the de Young Museum, itself.

de Young entrance

The new de Young museum opened in San Francisco in October and I took my first trip to check it out last week. The architects are Herzog & de Meuron, a Swiss firm well known for its museums, but this their first in the United States. John King’s review is especially interesting.

Two pieces of art were commissioned for the opening: An installation by Andy Goldsworthy in the entry court, and a huge mural by Gerhard Richter at one end of the lobby. Continue reading “Unique Art in San Francisco” →

Markie’s New Shoes

Dine about Town is going on in San Francisco. Each January many SF restaurants feature $21.95 fixed price lunches and $31.95 dinners. It’s the perfect time for a San Francisco day; lunch and the Chuck Close show at SFMOMA. But wait, it’s the first day of the NFL Playoffs. But wait, the first game isn”t until 1:30, Skins vs. Bucs, and I don”t care about it.

I made reservations at Campton Place for lunch. Asked for 11:30, but the best they could do was 10:15. That’s okay.
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