Author Archives: Daily Post from Bluxome Street

January 09

my journey with aids lifecycle

Originally posted on be like the moon:
? For the past 14 years, during the first week in June, nearly 3,000 men and women meet to begin one heroic challenge and one common goal: riding a bike from San Francisco to Los Angeles to help end AIDS and HIV. Orientation, day one, a whirlwind of…

January 08

The Vamps Take On “Oh Cecilia”

Check out my new favorite cover.  “Cecilia” is a song written by American musician Paul Simon. It was first recorded by Simon & Garfunkel for their fifth studio album Bridge over Troubled Water (1970). The song is generally interpreted as a lament over a capricious lover who causes both anguish and jubilation to the singer. […]

January 07

Meet The Very Bad Dog That Ate Her Owner’s $23,000 Wedding Rings

January 06

10 Incredible Moments From People’s Choice Awards 2015

January 05

Quote of the Day

“I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live […]

January 04

Song of the Day: Book Of Love – “Boy”

Friends since high school, Ted and Susan Ottaviano (who share the same last name but are not related) initially worked musically with Jade Lee, Susan’s College of Art classmate at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, in the early 80’s. In 1983, the trio began recording as Book Of Love; the following year, Ted […]

January 03

Picture of the Day: Barbecuing On Top of a Moving Submarine

Originally posted on TwistedSifter:
Photograph via shanbuscus on reddit ? In this vintage photo from 1983, we see crew members of the HMAS Onslow barbecuing a healthy amount of sausages on top of the submarine while it is still moving! The photo was scanned and posted to reddit by shanbuscus, whose father took the photo.…

January 02

Unresolutions 2015

2015 the best is yet to come. I look back at the 2013 and 2014 resolutions and see that I struggle with full year commitments. So let’s take a different approach. I am going to try, “Unresolutions.” What are unresolutions? Well set the resolution in a different mindset. Call it reverse psychology. Call it devil’s […]

January 01

The Year That Will Be 2015

It is a bit past midnight. The girls and I are cuddled up watching Ryan Seacrest in Time Square. The dogs are snoring in a dogpile with the blankets we draped around them. SF is alive with drunk revelers in the Mission, fireworks along the Embarcadero, and cheering gay boys in the Castro. I love New […]

December 31

The Year That Was 2014

This post is dedicated to my college roommate Vaughn Shain Alexander.  2014 was a year of extremes. I traveled to the World Cup in Brazil and hosted Global Press Events in Las Vegas and Berlin. I made several lifelong friends and rekindled friendships that had gone silent. My BMW X1 entered my life and I will never […]