Category Archives: North America

Sights seen at Mendocino’s Rattlesnake Creek, Hole-in-the-Wall swim Site.

Posted on July 21, 2010 by | 3 comments

Warm weather lured us up U.S. 101 to the Hole-in-the-Wall swim site on Mendocino’s Rattlesnake Creek. Right off the highway, down a neatly hidden, meandering trail, it hides in plain sight. If you didn’t know it was there, you wouldn’t know it was there. We took the half-naked otter handyman of Timbers (not to be confused with the half-naked muscle-bear handyman of Sunfair) and his monkey-man hobby photographer boyfriend. Down the trail to the water and the picturesque rock formations that give the place its name: the cool hole already hosted a half dozen hippies, a few cute naked nature boys, a woman-and-kid or two and some dogs. [photoevent: 9 July 2010]

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More San Francisco Street Art Seen

Posted on July 6, 2010 by | Leave a comment

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Here comes Captain Cupcake! …and other Humboldt sights.

Posted on July 1, 2010 by | Leave a comment

A trip up the coast to eat fish yields some sights from the Seascape Restaurant in Trinidad, California’s smallest incorporated city with a population of about 300. The tiny town hosts the Trinidad to Clam Beach Run in February and the Fish Festival in June. It is also home to Humboldt State University’s Fred Telonicher Marine Laboratory. Humboldt County has six other incorporated cities, about 60 unincorporated communities, and about 75 ghost towns…from Acorn to Wilder.

Here Comes Captain Cupcake - from the Eureka Times-Standard

Trinidad Head

Skater in Hoodie out the Window of the Seascape Fish Restaurant

Seascape Fish Restaurant Trinidad California

Caps in Red Booth

Seascape Fish Restaurant Wait Staff

Coffee Sugar Chrome and Gold

Carson Mansion in Eureka - Now a Mens' Club

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Sights seen at scene site: San Francisco Pride Celebration

Posted on June 28, 2010 by | Leave a comment

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Pink Saturday Shootings in the Castro. One dead, two wounded.

Posted on June 27, 2010 by | 2 comments

Police secure the crime scene at Castro and Market Saturday night

On the eve of San Francisco’s annual Gay Pride parade and celebration, a young man was shot and killed. Another man and a woman were wounded. The suspect is in custody and the weapon has been recovered. The victim, Stephen Powell, and the suspect are both 19 years old.

In recent years, the Halloween celebration in the Castro has been plagued by “bridge and tunnel” violence, including some fatal incidents instigated by straight youths who use the masked occasion to settle beefs imported from the ‘burbs. It is not known at this time whether this incident was gang-related, gay drama related, a bashing…or what.

In other news, former Mr. SF Leather Ray Tilton reports via Facebook that he was roughed up by four unknown assailants outside of the 440 Club, site of the former Daddy’s bar. He is shaken and sore, but otherwise alright.

Local news and KPIX video is available at the CBS news channel 5 website.

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San Francisco Street Art Seen

Posted on June 26, 2010 by | Leave a comment

San Francisco Street Art Seen on June 26th, 2010 in the South of Market (SOMA) neighborhood.

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Surveillance at Kansas Kum & Go

Posted on June 19, 2010 by | Leave a comment

The proprietors of convenience stores are not the only ones interested in pointing cameras at their customers. A quick stop for gas, snacks and  corn-fed, slushie-finished boy-shooting on the way out west.  May, 2010.

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Sign of spring in SoIL: “Fleas & ticks are here be ready!”

Posted on April 16, 2010 by | 2 comments

Sign of Spring in SoIL. c. Jordy Jones 2010

Southern Illinois. SoIL. So Ill it’s practically Kentucky. Weather in the 80s has brought out both blossoms and bloodsuckers. Humidity is rising in the Mississippi flyway. Pink buds, strange signs and an impending exodus…we’re going going back back to Cali Cali. Thirty days and counting.

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Smuggling songbirds up another man’s pants? OC man pleads guilty.

Posted on April 15, 2010 by | Leave a comment

Duc Le of Garden Grove has plead guilty and faces up to five years in prison for smuggling exotic songbirds from Vietnam. The LA Times reports that his co-defendant, Sony Dong, apparently the brains of the bird smuggling business, faces up to 20 years. Dong plead guilty last year after authorities discovered 14 songbirds strapped to his legs on a flight from Vietnam to Los Angeles. The birds, which survived the trip, would have brought $400 each on the black market. Another 51 birds were found at Le’s home. AP photo.

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Houston press Hairballs says fire at gay-friendly church was arson

Posted on April 14, 2010 by | 2 comments

According to  Hairballs, the on-line journalistic branch of the Houston Press, a fire that destroyed the gay-friendly Servant-Savior Presbyterian Church was intentionally set. According to their mission statement: “We are a church with many artists…(we) have responded to God’s call to us to be a garden…we strive in all ways to be earth friendly…(and we) welcome people of any nationality, race, sexual orientation, or religious affilitation. Our mission is to promote justice, peace, and acceptance.”

A wall at the church displayed crosses from around the world. Many were destroyed, but a few were saved. To donate to rebuilding efforts, go here.

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