Category Archives: Video

Daughter, Gay, Music, Photos, Street Fairs, Video

Oakland Pride

How often do you get to see the likes of Chaka Khan and Martha Wash for $5!?  I’m so glad we went.  My daughter and I took BART to 19th Street in Oakland.  She overheard some guys say “follow the bear”.  I met a few friends there and ran into a bunch of people I knew.  I’m glad I didn’t bring my dog, because the music too loud for me.  I can only imagine how hard it would have been for him.

Bears, California, Photos, Travel, Video

Adventure Weekend in Big Bear Lake, CA

After surviving some headaches the first day and some more altitude sickness, or bad food which caused my last night to be pretty bed and sink-focused, I must say that all in all I had a wonderful time at the pool with old and new friends in a new environment in a part of California I’ve never been to before, even though it reminded me in several ways of Lake Tahoe.

I’m also glad my car made it, despite some brake “burning” on the way down the mountain and a noise which my brother now believes was the wheel bearing. My friend Ed and I traveled about 900 miles round trip taking the scenic route up and down California in my Buick.

Here are the pictures from my camera and from others who attended:

Gay, Photos, Street Fairs, Video

Pride Week 2010

Videos and pictures – One of the videos is from the Dyke March gathering after which I first heard, then saw Wanda Sykes and her wife.  Wanda was amused by a completely naked man with a genital piercing so behind her sunglasses and with her short dreads, I saw her pull out her camera and take a shot of him.  I’m glad their twins were not there!

I can’t believe that a 19 year old kid was shot and killed at the Pink Party.  A few others were injured.  I left relatively early that evening and I had quite a week with six days of staying in the city with various friends visiting from London, Berlin and Philadelphia.  My friend Gene hung out with me a lot and he put me up for a night when two unmentionably flaky people from the Sacramento area left me high and dry at 1am after begging me to wait for them. I knew all the hotels would be booked this weekend of all weekends, so I had the prospect f sleeping on my office floor, which fortunately did not have to manifest.

I met a lot of nice men and women and came into town with my daughter and her two friends and my Yorkie on Sunday, but I didn’t stay too late as the week caught up with me.  I was just getting over losing my voice the week before, but I got a lot of walking in and I had most of my energy back.

Daughter, Photos, Video

Pictures and video of daughter’s graduation

She had rehearsal this morning.  She’s had my Mom and me there and relatives from her Mom’s side are visiting from all over the country.  She got a job, her driver’s license and her yearbook all in the past few weeks.  I’m very proud of her.  I just wish I had a VOICE since yesterday it started to go south, and I wasn’t be able to scream and yell congratulations to her tonight from the audience.  There were 710 people graduating!  It’s a good thing it’s one of the longest days of the year, since it didn’t start until 6:30pm and it was a long ceremony.  We also sat in the shade, which was comfortable when we first got there, but soon got kind of chilly.

Bears, California, Daughter, Gay, Photos, Travel, Video

Trip to Santa Cruz and Pigeon Point Lighthouse

Some pictures and a video of our trip around the bay today.

We thought the buildings by the lighthouse were for the staff, but it’s actually a hostel!  See http://www.norcalhostels.org/pigeon/