http://www.faketalesofsanfrancisco.com side 2, track 3 Tue, 13 May 2008 03:11:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://www.faketalesofsanfrancisco.com/2008/05/13/kites/ For those who care about such ephemera, I am Sockettrousers on twitter. http://www.faketalesofsanfrancisco.com/2008/05/13/131/ Nothing to do with me BTW, just a photo I had on my phone. Anyone still reading this? http://www.faketalesofsanfrancisco.com/2008/05/11/testy/ Our last posession has left Ukraine. We've been in the US six months and finally the Discovery left Ukraine and is now sitting in a bonded warehouse in the UK. I have a buyer for it and all I have to do now is (remotely) wrangle it through customs. Seems like ... http://www.faketalesofsanfrancisco.com/2007/11/27/all-that-and-then-this/ The internet is a funny old thing but not as funny as the World of Warcraft wherein exist "Boots of Blasphemy". Jane and I stumbled on this concept whilst trying to read the whole internet (as you do). It immedaitely set us thinking about what the magical power of said ... http://www.faketalesofsanfrancisco.com/2007/11/17/the-boots-of-blastphemy/ Ho Ho. Sunday night is going to be festive. I'm trying to get to London... http://www.faketalesofsanfrancisco.com/2007/11/15/im-in-kyiv-its-cold/ We have a new member of the family. Burt is a 1998 Subaru Forester L. We adopted him from Scott who I work with for the grand price of $4500 - that's about four blackjacks in the old money if you still count Imperialwise. Cars in America don't age like ... http://www.faketalesofsanfrancisco.com/2007/11/07/meet-burt/ Halloween was a bit of a wash out this year - the city banned the usual celebration in the Castro. We turned up anyway, but the streets were empty apart from a small number of revelers asking a large number of policemen where they bought such good costumes. (Luckily we ... http://www.faketalesofsanfrancisco.com/2007/11/06/the-day-of-the-dead/ A friend took us to Club Sportiva drool over a $300,000 Ferrari. Sadly we didn't like the colour so we're considering the Lotus which matches Madame's eyes. http://www.faketalesofsanfrancisco.com/2007/08/16/does-it-come-in-red/ One day walking down Andrevski, we caught sight of an old guy selling oil paintings stolen from Soviet institutions. $50 later we were up one rolled canvas on Lenin. We smuggled him past the border guards rolled in a map of the world and then had him mounted at Edgewise Arts ... http://www.faketalesofsanfrancisco.com/2007/08/15/cultural-rape-is-the-right-of-every-worker/