Happy New Year 2023
First outing, coffee shop, credit card transaction, cup of coffee of 2023 is:
Peet’s Castro! A small cup of featured medium roast “Cafe Domingo”.
Window seating.
First photo memory via Google Photos is from 8 years ago. It was a fabulous joy ride and visit to Koh Larn, a small paradise Island off the coast of Pattaya Thailand:
Yes it was fairly warm, quiet and peaceful inside Peet’s Coffee Castro on this cold, wet, dreary San Francisco day.
While sipping my coffee and perusing my messages, look what I found:
photo: Queer_Monkey_Photography IG
A message from my spy in Pattaya, Thailand along with a picture showing things are swinging back to full force in the land of smiles, warmth and sunshine.
A gorgeous, 20 something graced my morning coffee with this fashion forward and stylish outfit.
Out of reflex my hands instantly grabbed my Google Pixel 3 and began snapping away.
Unfortunately the lighting was poor, extremely backlit. But thanks to in phone apps this is what I managed to create from the salvage.
Perhaps I’m too old, but I don’t recall that “queer” had the same context it does today.
No matter. Anthony Friedkin’s “Gay Essay” was a hot show at the DeYoung Museum SF in 2014. Here’s a poignant look into his work, and a time when homosexuality was illegal, and “queer” was a fighting word.
We must do a SoCal field trip. And this will def be on the menu.
Looking out my window about this time one year ago, at about 10:30 a.m.
The sky was a bloody orange from all the smoke from the wildfires.
I’m just glad I didn’t bring any children into this filthy greedy mercenary short-sighted drying up from climate change world.
A nostalgic moment shared via Instagram.
Cup Of Jim 