Here’s a cloud seen in Los Gatos near my house. And the next picture shows a pair of donkeys up on the hill. Christmas donkeys.

I got a little more info on Ta Moko from Ray Quah: There’s a book of photos by Hans Neleman Moko-Maori Tattoo. Also there’s some modern ta moko in the movie Once Were Warriors.

Robert Anton Wilson is still alive and, if not kicking, at least blogging. Great to see he’s still at it.

The other day, as an Xmas treat, I went into SF and met up with John Shirley, my son Rudy, and hacker Marc Powell. First we went to a show of Croatian electronic art at the Tenderloin RX Gallery. It’s so funny how the totally scuzzy Tenderloin is wedged in on the same side of Market Street as the big tourist hotels and Union Square.

Marc is into “food hacking” now. Check out his site and figure it out. He said if you blog something before someone else, you got the “blog drop” on them. So maybe I have the blog drop on Marc right now.

We four went to see Rancid at the Warfield. It was so great to see Rancid. I love those guys, especially Tim Armstrong and Lars Frederiksen (Tim in the middle, Lars on the left). I think they’re both from Campbell, California, a suburb of San Jose near where I live.

It’s always nice seeing a concert in the Warfield, with its plaster moldings and painting on the ceiling. Using the old SF analogy machine: the people who painted this mural in the early 1900s are in the same relation to Rancid’s music as the designers of the contermporary Metreon Center are to ——- (fill in blank with some type of performance in the year 2106.)

I’ve only seen Rancid live once before, and that was when they did a free lunch-time concert outside the student center at San Jose State, more than ten years ago. At the time I was so happy and surprised to see that punk was still alive and, indeed, as good as ever. John S was happily beating time to the Rancid music. He says the latest popular punk band out the gate is The Horrors.

Rancid's first song: “When I've got the music, I've got a place to go.” That says it all.

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