Potlatch: end

[calimac]

I've not too much to say about Potlatch on Sunday. We somehow managed to avoid getting tickets to the banquet; apparently going through the PayPal routine on the website was insufficient. There were a couple of program items that mostly listed things. Then we went home.

I should, however, mention something that got squeezed out of the lengthy Saturday panel report. Friday's panel on the history of San Jose had included mention of the hidden art in the King Library, the joint main library of the city and the city university. So I decided to post an Algonquin, Potlatch's do-it-yourself programming slot, of a tour of the hidden art, since I know where most of it is and have showed it off to people before. "See neat stuff!" said the post.

Some ten people showed up for the tour, including some locals. We saw the secret hidden bookcase, and the six-legged Vermin Miller chairs by the entomology section, and the Owl of Minerva, and the granite tables in the shape of continental plates (on wheels, so you can reunite Pangaea), and Alice in Wonderland's door in the elevator, and the Golden Gate of 88 gold-plated carburetors, and the Rosetta stone-shaped display that shows the I Ching, and the Skeptacle, and the Tweety Bird chair, and lots more.

Then I left them off at the library booksale which was occupying the back patio.

Comments

[kate-schaefer.livejournal.com]

That sounds like a great tour. I'd be sorry that I missed it, but as usual at Potlatch, there were far more interesting people to talk to and things to do than time to contain them all. I'm not sure I even managed to say hello to you, though I am sure I waved at you from the other side of the room. Your restaurant guide materially improved the weekend for me. Thank you for your thoroughness, and for calling out a few of your favorite restaurants on an LJ post. Mezcal and k.zzang, in their very different ways, were both excellent.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Damn. I'd have enjoyed that tour...

(By the way, we're keeping the restaurant guide handy, for future non-Potlatch-related forays into SJ. Thanks for all the work you did there.)

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

re guide: I hope you find it useful, but they do go obsolete fast. Had I finished that guide 5 months ago, instead of beginning it then, it would already be missing 6 or 8 new places and include almost as many that had closed.

re tour: We could still do this. Want to pick a date to meet?

[desperance.livejournal.com]

I'd love to. Not right yet, but in a few weeks Karen might be up for it too. I'll get back to you. Is there a direct e-mail address I can use?

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

dbratman@earthlink.net. Get back to me when you're free, and we'll see how the schedule looks then. Think 1 hour plus for the actual tour.