Jim's funeral mass is tomorrow (Wednesday June 12) at St Clement Catholic Church, 750 Calhoun Street, Hayward at 10:30am. Burial will follow at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, 26320 Mission Blvd., Hayward ( Read more... )

Our friend Jim Cunningham passed away this morning, after being beaten senseless in the Castro last week while out walking his dog and never regaining consciousness. We'll remember Jim as a sweet, smart and funny guy who loved country music, the Monkees and Prince. One of our fondest memories of him is when we vacationed together in Las Vegas with ( Read more... )

That was the strongest earthquake I've ever felt!

And since it's my birthday, I'm going to make an effort to get back into Live Journal. Just been stressed out these past three or four months, what with the mom thing, money worries, tenant issues, health, work, life, the universe, everything ...

Hey, SF-area LJers ... erstexman will be in town this weekend, and I'll be showing him the sights and stuff, but more importantly there's an LJ dinner Saturday night at Firewood in the Castro. Just be there by 7 p.m. and join us!

My online pal Linas draws posters for the national Blowoff dances thrown by Rich Morel and my buddy Bob Mould ... and he asked me to pose for one! So here I am, immortalized in his art.

( Click here to see me ... )

Well, I am going out to Tennessee, at the end of the month. Will be there to help clear up my mom's mess, overlapping with my brother for a weekend and with my sister for most of a week.

Fortunately both of them are on top of things, which is good, because I still feel like an emotional wreck.

Just talked with my brother about going back to Tennessee to get our mother's finances squared away. He wants me to join him and my sister so we can put up a united front, but, unfortunately, the week they've chosen is the week after Thanksgiving. It's difficult for me to travel non-rev (standby) then, because of the elevated holiday traffic, and ( Read more... )

Feeling a bit better. Growing less mad at my mother, and more mad at the scam artists who took advantage of her.

However, if she fights in any way our plans to make sure this doesn't happen again ...

So I was working out today at FitnessSF, the former Gold's Gym here in San Francisco, and listening to music on my iPod nano watch, when it struck me, with all the dance music blaring, that I was probably the only person to ever exercise there while listening to Henry Mancini's soundtrack to Hatari!More of my co-workers at Virgin are pregnant. ( Read more... )