Weekend Wrap-Up (Belated): Phyte Club Hike, Fetid Adder’s Tongue, Lemmy the Movie

Though everyone was getting on smashingly, I’d convinced myself the premier Phyte Club-sponsored (TM) hike was a failure: We’d yet to alight upon the otherworldly and intriguingly-named plant, the fetid adder’s tongue. Kelsey and I had discovered it last year at this time — low to the ground, initially inconspicuous, and totally phenomenal upon [...]

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One plant to bring them all and in the darkness bind them

my new shirt is actually bright green, like chlorphyll

Where oh where have I been? (Oh yeah, two back-to-back Sleep shows, more on that momentarily). I’m not sure how this 2008 film, being hailed as the definitive stoner rock documentary, escaped me, but it totally did. Such Hawks, Such Hounds, featuring celebrity personalities [...]

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Death Makes Angels of Us All: That New Doors Documentary

Soundtrack:

Not To Touch The Earth

A Feast Of Friends

Wild Child

At The Doors’ 1969 show in Miami, Florida, Jim Morrison was arrested and convicted for, among other things, simulating oral copulation on Robby Krieger’s guitar. The footage didn’t seem to prove this — Morrison was simply on his knees, his face an [...]

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California Native Watercolors

I finally visited A Year in Bloom, the watercolor exhibit by Linda Stewart Henley at the SF Botanical Garden’s Helen Crocker Russell Library of Horticulture (a wonderful resource in itself–though you can’t check out any of the books you can sit around all day researching amidst the cozy stacks. One of my favorite places [...]

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