Created by June Morrall
Michael Powers announces his return from his latest adventure in the Far NorthWest.
Where the Strait of Juan de Fuca empties into the Pacific Ocean
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Powers returns to the unusual home he almost-single-handedly built on the shores of Half Moon Bay. In the 1970s, former Coastsider John Essa (center) posed with friends in front of Michael’s creation.
Update: See Joyce Walder’s piece on Anado in the New York Times (Home & Garden), October 23, 2008: “His Theory: Color Chaos” Click here
I had a brief yet torrid friendship with Bryant years ago when he lived in Tunitas…we would run into one another over the years and had healed a rift that had taken place. I last saw him in a coffee house in San Francisco before we moved to Mexico…it’s an odd feeling that I had…thinking this will probably be the last time I would see him…every so often I would google his name on the computer…last night I saw this heading: Bryant Wollman 1947-2008….it was so hard to believe….I knew that Funky man very well….from the depths of his lonesome sadness to the heights of his joyous abandon…he is resting…Viva Bryant!
Anado
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***Image: Return to the Source, Mixed Media Assemblage, courtesy of Made by Anado
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All photos from San Mateo County Chamber of Commerce
We drove by this “beautiful new house in San Mateo,” before passing fields of chrysanthemums. Then crossed Crystal Springs Lakes.
It was hard to decide which road to take. Highway 92?
Or Tunitas Creek Road?
We wanted to see the big redwood on Skyline and the Big Tree Inn at La Honda.
With Manuel Sousa in the lead.
Hey June:
I have been handed down a large library of his photographs and posted them at the following site. Let me know if it would be OK to include your article as a part of this site. I have a bunch of 8mm movies as well that I plan to transfer and upload.
Feel free to pass on this link or post it on your site. http://web.me.com/mantoani/Spanish_Dons/HalfMoonBaySpanishtownDons/HalfMoonBaySpanishtownDons.html
Yesterday we saw Burn After Reading,
the new Joel/Ethan Coen movie starring Tilda Swinton, George Clooney, Frances McDormand (who is married to Joel; I didn’t know that), John Malkovich and Richard Jenkins, whose name you might not recognize but you’ll know his face.
And Brad Pitt, who was obviously coached by one of his kids on how to play Chad Feldheimer, the silly character who works at the 24-hour Hard Bodies gym. Chad sympathizes with fellow employee Linda Litzke, played by Frances McDormand.
It’s Linda Litzke’s obsession with getting several cosmetic surgeries that push and shove the movie forward.
Which made me think: if all the Pitt-Jolie kids choose future acting careers, the Pitt-Jolie children could become the most powerful acting dynasty since the famous Barrymores.
Burn After Reading isn’t a crack-up. But it is smart & funny.
All week long, the pundits have told us that the political conversation has been held hostage by a “pit bull wearing lipstick.” Sarah Palin’s now famous comment: What’s the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull? Lipstick.”
On the Chris Matthews Show this morning, I heard him say that the Palin lipstick comment was intended to throw Obama off message, away from the real issues facing America today.
But Mr. Obama, if you wanted to change the conversation to the scary things that are happening to our economy right now in a humorous–and reaching- out- to- women- way– you might have said: What did you pay for lipstick ten years ago? And what are you paying for lipstick today?
Follow the money….
