The District of California

Paul is a great guy and does great work. Here’s his bio:

Paul Madonna’s strip, All Over Coffee, appears every Sunday in the San Francisco Chronicle and on SFGate.com. Paul’s drawings and prints are shown in museums, galleries, restaurants and cafes, and in 2007 a collection of All Over Coffee was published by City Lights Books. Other work can be found in various publications including the Believer Magazine, A Writer’s San Francisco, and the new collection Artists Sketchbooks. In 1994 Paul received a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University, and that same year he was the first (ever!) Art Intern at MAD Magazine, which he proudly received no money for. Paul currently lives with his wife in San Francisco

I saw Sandra, a local DC urban garden master, cleaning up the winter-trashed corner of a nearby park where she does her plant magic.  We talked about the new vegetable garden over at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. and a 60 Minutes profile of Alice Waters. Sandra was pissed. Alice Waters went to an SF farmers [...]

Here are a few links from one of of my favorite people in the District of CA, John Bosley.
May 10 will be 140th anniversary of the Golden Spike–linking CA to the East by the modern technology of the day, Railroads. Fast forward 139 years–wealth and an ethos that springs from silicon, not gold and [...]