California and Hong Kong Photos, Oct. 2000
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California:

Monterrey aquarium shots. I have no idea who the kid in the left-side photo is. He totally ruined our shoot.

Greg took us sailing on San Francisco Bay. Our companion was Delphine.
(Greg's friends Alphonse, Thiérry and Hørst could not make it)

Photos from the drive from S.F. to L.A. Finding elephant seals frolicking around on the beach north of San Simenon was a big highlight. The one on the left wanted to attack me.

Dinner with Beth Fishman in L.A. John Cusak and Donny Most were at the next table.

The stars outside Mann's Chinese Theatre. Jen and I each picked our favourite Hollywood heroes for these shots

Silicon Valley. Palo Alto to be precise. Yep -- this is all there is to SV -- just a bunch of grubby low-slung office buildings and generic fast-food restaurants, hotels and gas stations. What a god-dammed dump.

Left: Tom Cruise's house. Right: The house next door to Jean-Claude Van Damme's house.

 
Left: Aaron Spelling's house. Right: Mel Gibson's house

Left: Jen and I at Mondavi winery. Right: Golden Gate Bridge

Old Faithful

Hong Kong:

Jen outside traditional Chinese market selling flat-duck

Hong Kong Airport: touting prohibited

Helicopter tour of Hong Kong. I got barfy.

More California photos:

Greg and Jen, outside Greg's home near the Bay Bridge in S.F.

ApplicationPark's typically dot-com-styled "outside-the-box" office building

Greg enjoys a quiet moment

The lazy seals of SF's Pier 39 -- a bright spot in what is otherwise SF's tackiest tourist area

Hapy, happy, happy, happy, happy ...

Greg makes it with two fine ladies au meme temps

SF's famous Amoeba Record Store -- Haight-Ashbury

Cool Haight-Ashbury window display

Jon and Greg perform the watermelon ceremony

Statue in S.F.'s Yerba Buena Gardens. Now, how many tourists think of this imaginative shot? Yeah: Not many.

Jesse Zeifman showed us the Mission and Castro sections of SF

Right next to the Luna Park restaurant in the Mission is Ralph Nader's campaign headquarters, The mishmash of left-wing causes advertized on the tack-up board outside the office illustrates the fractured, confused state of today's left-wing. (This is where Greg receives his marching orders, by the way.) Take a good look at the causes publicized here: Abu Jamal, anti-genetic-foods, anti-Iraqi scantions, pro-Yoga, etc. It's like someone made a collage depicting every one of America's loser causes. 

Cycling in Golden Gate Park

After leaving San Francisco, we drove down the California coast to Hollywood. This is Jen in front of the Bates Motel set at Universal Studios

Jen joins the Apollo mission. What's that, Jen? Why, thumbs up must mean "all systems go!" All right!

Jon meets the Klumps