casual ultimate » the 90210 summit of thanksgiving 2006

the town children spent thanksgiving together in the sunshine state of san francisco. we had a t-giving feast in oakland with some of the brass monkey crew and some very nice canadians. i chatted with some jumpy dude who thought he could talk hip hop to me. ha. then we spent the next few days doing what the towns do at the holidays - eating, sleeping, seeing movies, and throwing in the park. chucktown showed miss casual the best mexican food in his particular zip code, the best mojito anywhere and how to throw a forehand. we biked through the park and ran into the deyoung museum which you see here.

*warning - architectural idiocy to follow. only carlo and maybe rob should be reading* the museum is a new herzog and demeuron building and one of their only built works in the states. it was detailed nicely but ultimately i feel like their work was better when it was materially driven as opposed to the formally aggressive stuff they are doing now. like where do the oblique angles come from? is it just a contemporary pretense? is it programmatically necessary or inspired by the site in some way? or is it just expensive and ‘cool looking’? ugh. the screen they used on the exterior was interesting but the interior kind of looks like everything else. chuck is always so nice when i drag him to buildings he doesnt care about.

after that detour we spent an afternoon with the philips’s seeing the new bond and getting texts from denarids. ‘tell chuck i love him. tell him to call me so i can say all the things i never said.’ good times. we saw dr. welsh and her crazy scar on her knee. i almost forgot she gives the best hugs ever. she walks like a pimp cause of her knee surgery. we took down some crepes and gossiped a bit before miss casual had to head back home. it was nice to hang with the 90210 crew. good luck with your move to NOPA chuck. keep it real.