Saminda's World

Urban hiking is totally rad -to the extreme!

Todd and I are broke out of our individual "It's an overcast Sunday, winter is here" funks on Sunday by completing an epic HLP stairway walk from the hills of the Castro up to Twin Peaks.   At first, it was all idyllic and shit with us finding moments of serenity and pastoral beauty like this one lush green stairway:  

All idyllic and shit

But then we took it to the extreme!  A couple of beers and an especially delicious chocolate truffle later, we decided to go joy-riding in this deluxe yellow RV, obviously made for a team of five super-hot girl secret agents/models:

To the Extreme!

We also decided to move a set of blue "It's a boy!" balloons tied to someone's house entrance to another house a few doors down.  OK, so only one of those two things is true but it's definitely the more shameful one.

Hola, bitches (Mexico City)

Mexico City

So I went to Mexico City this week with the boys: Jeff, John, and Kris.  Saw a Mexican wrestling match, hung out at a gay bar (we were the ONLY straight people there so we got a lot of attention), drank a lot of tequila blanca, ate a lot of tacos al pastor (the pineapple slice is key), scaled some 2,000 year-old pyramids a hour outside of the city, and explored the city itself which is home to about 20 million peeps.  Some pics of my 4-day jaunt are here.

Happy Halloween, bitches.

Me as Todd

Boo.  My Halloween was kick-ass -how about you?  I had the pleasure to DJ at my friend Anita's house party.  It was ridiculous good fun.  Oh my god.  I think 150 people rolled through there.  I think it had the party seal of approval when a party bus pulled up at 2am and the people aboard had heard about the party that night.  Nice.  Pics of some of the mayhem are here. By the way, I went as my friend Todd who actually kind of looks like that.

I am officially old

I turned 35 last weekend.  Yeah, sad. 

But it turns out I have a lot to be thankful for including some amazing friends who showed up to warm up the new digs and celebrate my turn towards senility.

Me

Here are some more pics from the party.  I got the perfect gift from my friends (they are supremely generous); now I can play all my digital tracks as if they were vinyl -sweet! 

And here are pics of the new place I took before the party (cuz I wasn't sure it would survive afterwards -it did, though).  

The Cathedral

The Cathedral

On Saturday afternoon, I joined my friend Ryan who has been on a mission to photo-document all the graffiti in San Francisco.   He'd been recently scoping this gated warehouse in the Dogpatch nicknamed "the Cathderal" which was rumored to be a graffiti paradise.  We had to jump a few fences, etc. to get inside but we weren't disappointed.  Here are my spoils.