Category Archives: Northern California

Happy 4/20 at 4:20, 4/20!

Posted on April 20, 2012 by | 2 comments

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Dionysius of the Emerald Triangle makes a cyanotype self-portrait. Cool! The Buddha Nature grows his own. It takes one to Noh one. Happy April 20, green heads! And Hi, Kid. For Green Man Cumming, the Spring Equinox version, click here.

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Posted in Gardening, GAY GAZE: Visual Culture, Photos, Art, Comics, Film, Objects, etc..., Mendocino County, North America, Northern California, Photography, Sexy Holidays, Spirituality, Subcultures, The Buddha Nature, Youth

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Real Rural

Posted on February 14, 2012 by | 1 comment

This guy would spend his last dime to ride bulls…how about you?

New ad campaign I saw on BART today: Real Rural. Tag line is “Stories and Photographs from the Rest of California.”

-AidanAbroad

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Posted in GAY GAZE: Visual Culture, Photos, Art, Comics, Film, Objects, etc..., iPhone, Men, Northern California, Signage, Stanford University, Subcultures

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Suck Dick, Save the World

Posted on January 27, 2012 by | 2 comments

A note to my friendly neighborhood graffiti artist: I appreciate your beautiful message – sucking dick sounds like as good a way to save the world as any, perhaps better than most. However, you might choose a more contrasting paint color next time; with black-on-brown, your message gets lost. Next time, might I propose a tasteful shade of blue?
Sincerely,
AidanAbroad

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Posted in DIY and Maker Culture, GAY GAZE: Visual Culture, Photos, Art, Comics, Film, Objects, etc..., Men, Northern California, San Francisco, Signage, Street Art, Grafitti, etc., WORLD WIDE: Gay around the Globe!

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Pole Express

Posted on December 27, 2011 by | Leave a comment

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Sight seen in a cafe window.

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Posted in iPhone, Northern California, Photography, Signage, Strange Holidays

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Road Kill…why not?

Posted on December 27, 2011 by | Leave a comment

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Can you see beauty in ugliness? Or is it playing in the dirt? More here and here.

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Posted in ANIMALS: Human and otherwise..., Art and Artists, GAY GAZE: Visual Culture, Photos, Art, Comics, Film, Objects, etc..., iPhone, Northern California, Photography, Spirituality

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You’d Better Beware!

Posted on December 27, 2011 by | Leave a comment

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Not because of x-mas and the Nasty Santas. But all the time. Cause Big Brother IS watching. So is Big Lots. And Bob’s Big Boy and Big Mac and the rest of the big bad corporate people. What? They are people, aren’t they? Must be. Says so in the big legal tomes and on the bigger Internet. Prove they’re not. See? Now…prove you are. Hah!

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Posted in GAY GAZE: Visual Culture, Photos, Art, Comics, Film, Objects, etc..., iPhone, Northern California, Photography, SCANDAL: Politics, Crime, Revolution and More., Signage, Surveillance

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BART Reflections

Posted on December 15, 2011 by | Leave a comment

The third and final image from my BART commute this cold and rainy morning: Reflections in the window of the BART/CalTrain station in Millbrae, CA. Below, the CalTrain tracks and a northbound train; in the reflection, the canopy roof of the train station. The light of the rising sun on the clouds in the reflection adds a bright spot to the gray sky.
-AidanAbroad

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Posted in GAY GAZE: Visual Culture, Photos, Art, Comics, Film, Objects, etc..., iPhone, Northern California, Photography, Travel

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Singing to a Snake! Strange sexy old time Vaudeville Guy.

Posted on December 3, 2011 by | Leave a comment

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This old publicity still features early 20th century Vaudeville star Charles Kellogg singing to a snake. Kellogg was a California native, born in 1868, and he said he learned to sing to birds from indigenous local friends. Once the most popular act on the the Vaudeville circuit, in later years Kellogg was a keen conservationist and noted eccentric. He traveled around in what may have been the first RV: the “Travel Log” constructed from a redwood log over a Nash Quad chassis. More on Kellogg here.

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Posted in ANIMALS: Human and otherwise..., Collecting, History, Northern California, Photography, Subcultures

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JoJo Mendoco Kinky Gay Cali Manga

Posted on November 24, 2011 by | Leave a comment

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For lots more from JoJo Mendoco, click here

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Posted in Comics, JoJo Mendoco, Leather, Mendocino County, Northern California, San Francisco, Uncategorized

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UC Davis Professor calls out Chancellor: Police Brutality Is Your Fault. Resign Now!

Posted on November 21, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Nathan Brown, Faculty in Critical Theory, UC Davis

In an open letter to University of California Davis Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi, Assistant Professor Nathan Brown challenged her to take responsibility for the tear-gassing of peaceful, seated protestors.

Brown wrote: “You are responsible for it because this is what happens when UC Chancellors order police onto our campuses to disperse peaceful protesters through the use of force: students get hurt. Faculty get hurt.”

Among the injured were Professor Robert Hass, former Poet Laureate of the United States. For the full text of Dr. Brown’s letter, click here. For a slideshow of the Cal Occupation, here. And for another take on the police pepper-spraying students at Davis, here. Note the sea of camera-phones. The revolution will not be televised, but it may well be webcast.

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Posted in Activism, Berkeley, Internet, Military, Northern California, Photography, Scholarship, Surveillance

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