What I found today

• Three Buddhist monks getting their photo taken on the pier, with Alcatraz in the background.
• An art gallery with a collection of Dr. Seuss paintings and mounted heads (his secret hobby was mock-taxidermy).
• A man wearing reindeer antlers and hiding behind evergreen boughs, scaring passers-by by waving the boughs and saying, "Whoo!"
• The Musée Mécanique, a museum with dozens of old-fashioned machines and other memorabilia. For $0.50, one machine read my palm and printed a ticket with my fortune:

• A family of skunks scuttling through the bushes.
• Late-afternoon sunlight on lettuce leaves.
• Sunset across the bay. (There’s a that Journey song that goes like this: "When the lights go down in the city and the sun shines on the bay, do I want to be there in my city?" Is it about this city and this bay?)

Comments

[Katie]

Looks like you have an enviable (if not entirely grammatically correct) future ahead.

I'm detecting a strong rival for Maine . . .

[Michael]

I think about that Journey song often around here, because, as far as I know, it is about San Francisco.

[Lawrence]

holy christ on a cross! you saw bushman! wow...i haven't seen bushman in like...a year. *sighs*

...the memories...i love you bushman.

[Peter]

Did the accurate assessment of you in the first three paragraphs help you accept the machine's credentials for writing the last three paragraphs?

[April]

Katie: I know, I know. But it's a lot cheaper to live in Maine.

Peter: I was a bit surprised at the first three paragraphs, but overall I don't think of it as anything more than a good $0.50 laugh.