i took some photos at this morning's pride parade (with loads of dykes on bikes) and at yesterday's dyke march.

happy san francisco pride! happy pride!

today is also the 40th anniversary of stonewall... how far we've come. how much further we have to go...

last night we went (WALKED from new apartment!!!) to see femi kuti at the san francisco fillmore. it was an awesome, amazing show. great dancers/back up singers. sweet african inspired beats blended with funk and jazz. and very political.

i highly recommend checking out femi kuti, especially live!

my photos from the day of decision are all up. they are all labeled and tagged.

all 128 of them.

the camera police was out in full force last night!

so my berkeley photos kind of suck. sorry!

i uploaded a few.

it was a MUCH bettter show! here is the setlist:

love of our lives
sugar tongue
fill it up again
yield
power of two
(michelle malone, who was playing across the bay in san francisco, played "tighten up the springs")
ghost of the gang
what are you like
ozilline
everything in its own time
driver education
digging for your dream
get out the map (yes, two emily songs in a row)
shame on you (amy fuck*ed up the first verse for the third time in a row)
prince of darkness
second time around
fleet of hope
FUGITIVE (!!!!)
watershed
romeo & juliet
i'll change
kid fears (surprisingly, NOT with matt morris. i LOVE when the audience sings the echo and that happened last night!)
closer to fine (w/ matt morris)

(encore)
heartache for everyone (w/ matt morris)
galileo

i seriously didn't write down the sacramento setlist, i was so disappointed after that show. but i am sure joey and i can remember it (with some help). i'll try to get it posted.

i am a MUCH happier indigo girls fan today. berkeley was AWESOME!

i took a bunch of photos last night in sacramento, but only uploaded a few. enjoy!

you want to see these.

trust me.


the rest are here. (or, there's a more uncensored version on my facebook as well.)

this is my favorite photo on flickr at the moment. look at the composition. and while it's stunningly (and artistically) beautiful, it illustrates a sad story. the poverty in rwanda is horrible, especially after the civil war.

the black and white enhances every aspect of this.

i LOVE it. (it has replaced a photo i took in a south african market as the wallpaper on my iphone...)

lately i've been obsessed with looking at photos from africa (mine and others'). as much as i love love love the amazing african sunrises and sunsets, wildlife, and rural life, i have been really interested and inspired by photos of urban africa. the cities of africa are just so complex and colorful: from cairo to cape town and nairobi to accra, there is just so much to photograph.

i started a flickr group for photos of cities in africa. i am encouraging submissions of everything from street life to tall buildings to people to events in these cities. i have added several of my own photos from cape town, johannesburg, and maputo. and as of now (i started this group yesterday), my new group has 41 members and over 100 photos in the pool.

i started this group for selfish reasons as i can spend hours looking at shots of urban africa. if any of you have any photos of urban africa to share, please join my group and add your photos. and if not, you should check it out because there are some amazing photographs in there already!

amy ray west coast solo tour jan 2009 pics!



more amy ray (and kaia wilson, melissa york, and julie wolf) here...

i am so tired and i leave for the pacific northwest first thing tomorrow morning.

the san francisco shows (show and in store) were amazing. the slim's show was one of the best amy ray shows i have ever seen. ever. and celebrating joey's birthday there (with so many of our friends) made it uber special. the all acoustic in store at amoeba records was fantastic.

here are photos. i seriously need to sleep:

slim's show

in store

i seriously love love love having amy ray in my hometown. and i am sad we're all going to the pacific northwest tomorrow (and not staying in san francisco). and i am sad the san francisco/bay area run is over. but the tour must go on! ;)

amy ray, west hollywood pics here.

they suck. my camera's settings were JACKED. the lighting sucked. and i might have been a little *too* close... ;)

photos are up (pomona, california - 27 jan 2009 - amy ray @ the glass house).

follow the link to go to my flickr.

here are photos from the black crowes' five night run at the san francisco fillmore. i went to all five nights but did not take pictures at all five...

i finally uploaded a few photos from the no on 8 rally on 15 november (saturday) to flickr...

obviously.

but i always feel a little silly blogging others' flickr photos.

there is an entire set of photos from the obama/biden families on election night. behind the scenes. on barack obama's flickr page.

these photos made me smile and cry happy happy tears on this rainy saturday night.

i am filled with hope at the moment.

click on the photo to see more.

amy ray's solo tour, fall 2008

pics from the midwest:

on my flickr

there are a few videos on my youtube too. i will add more later:

link to my you tube

i promise to post setlists soon.

Debate Watching with Gov. Palin
Updated 12:10 a.m.
By Perry Bacon Jr.

Aboard her campaign plane, after taking questions for the first time from the reporters who follow her every move, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin told the assembled press and two senior aides standing near her that she didn't want to watch the presidential debate "in my hotel room with just campaign staffers."

The campaign hadn't scheduled a debating watching party for her, but that plan quickly changed. After Palin spoke at a rally here, her campaign entourage of aides and reporters drove to a local pizzeria called Boli's on the Boulevard. Palin went casual, appearing in blue jeans and a purple windbreaker she had been given after her speech at the East Carolina University a few minutes earlier.

As she greeted the surprised crowd of more than 50 at the small pizza place, she posed for several cell phone pictures. When Dana Corey, who was about to start eating, realized Palin was there, he was on the phone with wife. He asked if Palin would say hello and the governor did, joking, "Libby, why is your husband here drinking beer without you?"

The Corey family lives in Wilmington, N.C., and Mrs. Corey explained to the governor that her husband was there because he was working on a construction project in Greenville.

As the debate started, the governor sat with Charlotte mayor Patrick McCrory, and the state's Republican senators, Elizabeth Dole and Richard Burr, along with Burr's wife, as several televisions in the bar showed the Fox News telecast of the debate.

At the onset of the debate, Palin took out a pen and some paper. And for the next hour and half, along with chatting with the politicians, she often took notes of what the two candidates were saying. Interviewed after the debate, Dole said Palin was writing down many of their exchanges on energy, while Burr noted that Palin was "focused on what Barack was saying."

Perhaps like anyone else watching the town hall, the governor looked away at times and spent some time texting on her phone.

Corey came over to Palin's table, this time with his daughter, a college senior, on the phone. Palin greeted her too. Dana Corey said Allie enjoyed talking to Palin but was still deciding between Obama and McCain even after the Alaska governor pushed her man on the phone.

The dozen reporters with Palin were seated in a different section of Boli's from Palin, although we could see her throughout. She smiled at some of McCain's remarks about energy independence and took notes quietly when Obama spoke. At the end of the debate, her aides brought reporters over to Palin's table.

Asked how the debate went, she was enthusiastic as usual.

"Great. Great. It was a great night for America. He's proposing real plans that will work for economic recovery and energy independence," she said of her running mate.

"I think Barack was even less candid than usual," she added, not explaining exactly what that meant. "But McCain has fought on and sounded very energized and it was a good night for him.... It's gonna be a great 28 days to go. Taking this message of reform on the road and just having it resonate more and more every day is what I believe's happening. And it's good. It's very good. I look forward to the 28 days."

But Palin is aware of her ticket's political situation. Asked on the plane about her reflections from her first month on the campaign trail, she used a word she would repeat at the rally here: "underdog." That analysis may have been unavoidable, given that she was about to touch down in North Carolina, a state Republicans have won for decades but where polls show Obama effectively tied.

"I've been an underdog quite often in my life -- and so has John McCain. And we both have come out victorious," she said. "I anticipate that's what going to what we see at the end of the day on Nov. 4."

source

and a fun photo:



i do wonder if she played the maverick drinking game. or (in the case of last night's debate, the "my friends" drinking game.

we went to the hoop for obama event by the embarcadero tonight. although the turnout was low (it's san francisco, no need to convince the masses here), it was a lot of fun. here's joey with one of the obama volunteers. more pics on my flickr...