Rideout Fountain: All Soaped Up For 2012

Donna was on her way to work yesterday morn and spied this scene in Golden Gate Park. Looks like the panther & the snake fell victim to some pranksters on New Year's Eve...

Happy New Year, Rideout Fountain! Photo by Donna Mallard

The old "dish soap in the fountain" maneuver. Or maybe it's clothes soap. Doesn't matter.

It's kinda pretty.

UPDATE: Donna's pic got used by SFist! Sweet!

Previously:
Irving Street Crime Beat: Junior Edition
Rideout Fountain in Golden Gate Park, SF

Kale: It's Not Just For Eating Anymore

Donna's latest blog post inspired me...

Kale is good for you. And pretty, too. But, I'm not sure if you should eat the purple part...

Kale by Mother Nature. Painting by Donna Mallard.

Coincidentally (but not ironically), Donna made an awesome kale & couscous salad for lunch yesterday. Please note this was a different bunch of kale and not what we have in the vase at the moment...

And so it was that later

as the TV told a tale.

We had salad, made up mostly,

of a greener shade of kale
(with apologies to Procol Harum)

I hope you're having a great New Year so far!

Happy New Year's Eve Eve

This seems like a positive way to end 2011 (if you don't think too hard about it, I guess)....

From Jack Kerouac's novel Big Sur (1962) as seen on a mail sticker that's been stuck on a dumpster lid...

A film version of Big Sur will soon be upon us. Some of it was filmed earlier this year in my (very) old stomping grounds of the Lower Haight. SFist and Haighteration were on the case!

I usually don't make resolutions for the New Year. But, I would like to blog more in 2012. Hell, maybe I'll get me one of them Tumblr accounts that's all the rage with the young people these days. Mine will have less nudity, though. At least at first.

Have a fun & safe New Year's Eve, everyone! And a Happy New Year.

Previously:
"Hella Shit": Welcome, 2011