Musings on Dance, Food, Geek Stuff
I guess I’m a Blink now. On Tuesday I went to the sold-out BlackPink concert at Giants Stadium along with 30,000 other Blinks (BlackPink fans) of all ages. I was a little nervous since I was going basically alone (I had friends there, but in a different section of the stadium.) And I had some…
A couple of weeks ago, The Midway, an electronica focused club in San Francisco, hosted a roller disco in collaboration with the Church of 8 Wheels. It was a really dope night of skating to disco / EDM / house with a crowd of excited folks. Photographer Saylor Nedelman got some sweet pics of us…
I was watching the latest musical episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, in which one of the principal characters, Nyota Uhura, considers what her role is on the starship Enterprise. It’s a banger of a number and the actress Celia Rose Gooding kills it. It hit me right in the feels, not only because…
Yesterday I had the opportunity to reprise my “3 Hats” piece that I performed last March at the 6th Avenue Skating Place. This time it was for the annual San Francisco Skate Showcase put on by the Church of 8 Wheels on Sunday July 30. I was pleased with how my piece turned out last…
Yesterday I’m headed to Golden Gate Park on my motor scooter, cruising up Pine Street in moderate traffic. I’m traveling in pace with the other cars around me, and maintaining a good amount of distance from cars around me, cause I’m not an idiot. I turn on to Masonic Boulevard and notice this in my…
And did you get whatyou wanted from this life, even so?I did.And what did you want?To call myself beloved, to feel myselfbeloved on the earth.
How I went from “Ricky” to “Rich” to “Rik” and now “Riki.” I was leading a workshop on analyzing media for teachers in June and needed a piece of media for the participants to unpack together. And somehow I came across this ad by Procter & Gamble. It was perfect! So many interesting production choices…
So it came to me yesterday at Quaker Meeting for Worship something that I’ve been spinning around in my head for awhile: the tension between our desire for community and for individuality. I realized the many places that manifests for me, particularly in my spiritual practice and my dancing. Pews vs Meditating Alone I was…
My new skate setup is here! And just in time for my birthday! They are even better than I dreamed they would be. Thanks Kieran at Quad Republic for all the expert advice and help mounting my plates. So far they performed great on my little test skate today. I did a very careful test…
When you got nothing left in the tank, but the DJ puts on “Vogue.” It was first night of SF PRIDE 2023. The hour was close to 11pm. I’m in front of the Ferry Building where a small crowd of people were anxiously awaiting the lighting of the rainbow lasers down Market Street. The DJ…