BuzzFeed is awesome, but some of their posts — specifically those about turning a certain age — are kind of a downer. Well, I think age is just a number, and we spend too much of our lives feeling shitty about how high or low it is. So, here is a list for all those who don’t give a shit about their age.
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On Friday, Heron and I flew into San Francisco to meet up with our family. I wanted to see San Francisco again. I haven’t been there since I read at Lip Service West, and it’s a city that reminds me so much of Boston…a place I once sort of called home. So below you will find a documentation of that trip, and it’s my first attempt at writing in the BuzzFeed blog format.
Pumped to head to San Francisco tonight.
— Joseph A. Lapin (@JosephALapin) May 17, 2013
Our first stop in San Francisco was a walking tour in North Beach — the former stomping ground of one of my favorite writers…Jack Kerouac. We stopped at a bunch of Italian bakeries on the walking tour and ate pizza, linguini, homemade bread and macaroons and drank espresso. Our tour guide was Italian and grew up in North Beach. He told us the Italian flag is all over North Beach…but he said it’s hardly called Little Italy.
While I was in North Beach, I knew I had to stop at City Lights, but I wasn’t sure if we would have time. We had to meet Heron’s father at Pier 33 for a tour, and I led us off the trail to the bookstore. Of course, I ended up getting us lost and walking to Market Street, but that’s another story I will hear for the rest of my life…lol.
Finally made it @mikethepoetla @citylightsbooks. Bought rexroth and William Gibson. twitter.com/JosephALapin/s…
— Joseph A. Lapin (@JosephALapin) May 18, 2013
Then after North Beach…
Taking a boat to Alcatraz…the shadow of freedom, the inhabitable of exile.
— Joseph A. Lapin (@JosephALapin) May 18, 2013
I love all movies and books about prison — Shawshank, Green Mile, Oz, The Fixer. By examining prison life, it forces me to look at my freedom, and it causes me to wonder: With prison always looming in the background of our lives, can we ever be free?
What’s amazing about the tour is that they give you a pair of headphones and an audio version of a former guard walks you through the prison. It’s amazing to hear stories of the prisoners. On certain summer nights, the prisoners ould hear the sounds of freedom — laughter, girls and music — wafting over from the San Francisco Yacht Club. Freedom was so close and so far.
A view from Alcatraz…tantalizing freedom. twitter.com/JosephALapin/s…
— Joseph A. Lapin (@JosephALapin) May 20, 2013