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fire light

12/23/2014

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fire light
by charles pearson

sometimes
fire not often bad
on a coldest
autumn night
in december
warming
two anxious spirits

casting shadows
in
unison light
in
bliss attack
same climatic wall
once lifeless.

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Heads

12/18/2014

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Heads up, heads down, heads all around. We dig long horse faces. Heads.

When Deco's was full of Davids, Larkin Street

Embarcadero waterfront art

F-Tolley Stop, Market at Noe/16th St., The Castro

The Knockout, live music and DJ's Mon-Sun, Cozy booths and always good to the last round, Lower Bernal Heights in The Mission at Valencia St.

Off the beaten path. . .

Hard working carriage horses may soon be a thing of the past along New York's Central Park South . . .

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Togetherness san francisco

12/16/2014

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Lovers on high-end Grant Avenue

Sometimes it's all about timing. Sometimes it was just meant to be. But single moments, even if you're trying very hard to be aloof, doesn't endure in San Francisco. Moments always ends of up becoming shared moments with one other or many others. Color, race, sexuality, it doesn't matter. The city of summer love and wearing a flower in your hair never ended here, which makes San Francisco colorblind, special and so unique.

North Beach lovers

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male ballet dancer & orange sky

12/14/2014

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Portrait of a male ballet dancer in Union Square. The sky with an orange canvas is always beautiful at sunrise or sunset. Tomorrow, pics of Ocean Beach, which is never more beautiful than during a cold Pacific storm with extremely high waves. I am fully under the weather TONIGHT with a terrible cold that seems to have no end . . . Cheers!

Portrait of a Male ballet dancer

Orange sky

Bernal Heights sunset

Bernal Heights sunrise w/skyline view

Turk Street sunrise w/Rincon Tower in the distance

Top of Nob Hill California Street at sunrise

Birds at sunset

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Flowers, Clouds & bernal hts nature

12/13/2014

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Flowers in the rain

Flowers in the rain, Bernal Heights

Clouds over the city

Clouds over The City

Bernal heights nature

City nature, San Jose Ave.

Breakfast for two, Bernal Heights

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Night colors

12/12/2014

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Embarcadero Pier 17, San Francisco

Cliff's Variety Store, Castro Street

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BLACK IS THE NIGHT

12/11/2014

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San Francisco Central Market/Tenderloin and South of Market

In the Tenderloin, the exotic wild west hood of San Francisco, the night is blacker than Nob Hill, Telegraph Hill or anywhere else in The City. Located here are excellent entertainment venues like Exit Theatre, The Warfield, 50 Mason Social Club [nightly live music and variety shows], Aunt Charlies [a Friday night drag show of mostly middle-age men performers in stiletto high-heels and mini-skirts and giant stuffed bosoms lip-synching hot R&B tunes and shaking their thang is an awesome experience], Farmer Brown Soul Food [the chicken, collard greens and cornbread are good] and new arrival Mikkellars with an extensive beer selection. The line to get inside Mikkellar's on most nights drapes down Mason Street and around Eddy Street past two popular Indian/Pakistani restaurants.

The 21Club is one of the city's most colorful dive bars on Taylor at Turk. Some nights live music beckons you through its doors and into its packed shoebox space. Here you'll find serious drinking locals along with curious tourists and an old jukebox with 1970s R&B jams.

The other night at 21Club when the moon was full and the night was balmy a blues man sang and played an electric guitar in a corner in front of a small aisle to the john. The music and his voice were so good I thought I had been transported to New Orleans' Bourbon Street. Everyone was happy, excited, and we forgot about the danger that lurked just around the corner with huddles of black and white people, the homeless, drug dealers, wacky transgenders and prostitutes . What have I learned. Just to say hello to one of them, he (or whatever he or she is) will smile back and thank you for the acknowledgment. Of course, there comes part two, so prepared to give up the jingling loose change in your pocket: "Hey, brother, can you spare some change? A dollar, two dollars. Anything will help, black man."

In daylight the wild, lawless atmosphere in The TL doesn't disappear. Policeman walk the beat but it doesn't deter men from publicly smoking their junk and viewing porno mags...and other unmentionable acts.

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