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Remembering Bygone Days
Hotel Frank
386 Geary Street
www.sanfrancisco.com/hotel-frank/
(Hotel closed in Fall 2013)
"Braised beef brisket, lemon, Morrocan tomato jam, sunny side egg, chopped salad, cilantro, tahini"
$11.95
Tasty, but unfortunately gave me a really bad allergic-y reaction. (I'm sensitive to spicy food and this was spicier than I thought it would be.)
"Slow roasted spice rubbed pork shoulder, Taboonette BBQ sauce, cilantro, jicama-apple slaw, spicy cilantro mayo"
Pita: $8.50
Laffa wrap or rice plate: $10
One of my favorite things to eat in NYC, oh yes.
From the NYC Parks Department:
Also known as the Union Square Drinking Fountain, this ornate piece by German sculptor Karl Adolph Donndorf (1835–1916) was donated by philanthropist Daniel Willis James (1832–1907) to promote the virtue of charity to 19th century New Yorkers. One of a few public drinking fountains of this type left, the figural group contains a mother holding a baby with an infant at her left side. The fountain’s figures were modeled on the artist’s family and the granite is from Sweden. The lion’s heads on the fountain’s four sides dispense water; the fountain originally featured tin cups chained to the piece to allow passersby to quench their thirst.
The piece, located in an alcove on the west side of the park, was dedicated October 25, 1881. A civic patron, James intended his gift to function not only as a decorative work of art but also to propagate a lesson about kindness and charity. After visiting the artist in his native Germany and procuring a model of the fountain, James commissioned Donndorf to execute the piece. The fountain was most recently renovated as part of the reconstruction of Union Square, scheduled for completion in 2002.
In camera HDR with the Canon 5D Mark III
When in Union Square it makes sense to stop in here quickly. Not too much to say about this place, it's a comic book store that's been open forever. They have every action figure anyone could ever possibly want.
Ate there with Ed and one of his friends for the purpose of taking lots of photos. Result = meat coma.
Pillow Fight Union Square, organized by the folks at newmindspace. It was a mob scene: hundreds of pillows, as many cameras, and one lone police officer standing at the edge of the fray, looking bewildered.
Charlie Todd of the UCB and Improv Everywhere was there, and this was an altogether different event from his No Pants Subway Ride, though equally enjoyable.
Jessie, my partner-in-transferring and various other escapades is in town this weekend, we went together to shoot a bit, get smacked with some down, and left them forty-five minutes in, the fight still raging on.