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Monthly Archives: July 2010

They say it’s the journey that counts, right?

Friday, July 30, 2010

I rode my bike (and ferried a bit, since there’s no bike path over the Bay Bridge—yet!) from Oakland to Ross and back today, yet somehow I managed not to take a single picture along the way. In lieu of any photos of, say, the cute mama and baby deer that I saw grazing next […]

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Sport Utility Vehicle

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

I rode past this custom build on Telegraph Ave last week, and of course I had to stop for photos:

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Yet Another Candidate Enters Oakland’s Mayoral Race

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

I happened to mention the bakery Arizmendi in a brief post about electoral politics on Monday. The only stranger I have ever recognized inside Arizmendi is Joe Tuman, a professor at San Francisco State and a regular political analyst on CBS’s local TV and radio news. I wouldn’t typically write about a year-old sighting of […]

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Arizmendi, the Grand Lake Theater, and…the Whitman campaign?

Monday, July 12, 2010

This storefront on Lakeshore Avenue is frequently rented by political campaigns, but I was still a bit surprised to see that Meg Whitman’s campaign had moved in, with a cooperative bakery down the street in one direction and a ferociously anti-Republican movie theater in the other (and just a few hundred yards from where I […]

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