To the alleys I wandered singing, the stencils, the hair cut kids, bike gangs, busking on keroac alley, the leathermen in assless chaps, candy flippers, yupsters slumming it, hair colors, fitters, dreaded hipsters, skateboarders, bike messengers, the bars, the venues, the shows, the 2393's and the 2399's, the parks, gimme soma that dim sum, countless art/punk/projection/dance/costume/mustache/house/warehouse/boat/rooftop/ bad costume affairs, the tunnel graffiti, the tattooed superdorks, ukele strolls, straight stoopin it, the polyamorous cults, drunken cancun burrtios, the fog, Christmas twat vs. the voodoo cock, number one all time most disgusting bum shit moment, the roadtrips to mountains and canyons, mama jamma, bambi lake, girls in tighty whities with guns, yo-yo gangs, robots, bush jumpers, eaves dropping on muni strangers life stories, weirdo candy at supertokyo, all the openness, acceptance and defiance, the browse at green apple, the fillmore from front right, hippie hill, hukas at the beach, mustaches in union square, needle alley, bonfires that stole jesus, parachute men from buena vista, all the festivals that are free and outdoors, pushing kegs in shopping karts, serranos pesto delight, ashby flea market, philz coffee, suka free city, random street junk/treasure, megaphone prophets, dance-a-thons, gutter punks and their dogs, the alley next to amoeba, prada penthouses, piedmonts tranny earrings, the obscure roommates, the hills, public urination tickets, one dollar bombay papusas, everyone living on top of each other, rope swings in the dinning room, vpp and their ugly counter tops, chocolate in the day time, team acid, crackhead bumper carts, the junkstores, after hours, theres always an afterhours, freedom, school of acdc, backyards, absinthe at amnesia, secret gardens, stairs to oblivion, the twinkle, margaritas at la rondalla, the view, forever after's do-not signs, beautiful freaks, waistoid poets, womanizing artists, future nobel peace prize winners, activists who still believe, street kids with ideas, amazing musicians, the assholes at zietgiest, everything people, wheat-pasters, spray painters, costumers for the every day attire, inventive livers, imaginative dreamers, attention ahaolics, 25cent records, silver space boots, lost weekend where I lost a weekend, the view from twin peaks on the 33, the fireworks, craigslist society, art school drop-outs, drop outs in general, grandmas fine food at yamo, the travelers, the chance meetings, the genius in conversations spent at bus stops, clement street from beginning to end, sunlight in downtown, the overpass to potrero hill, kick ball in golden gate park, strip clubs in north beach, snap-n-pops in chinatown, whiskey drinkers, artwhores, scene sluts, independent revolutionaries, diy zines, transients, the action, the hive, brown bagging it, co-ops, dumpster divers, my students, living room studios, the wiggle, all the murals, street art, and decorated urban landscapes, languages, cultures, the music, oh the music, the mission where I made my home, the atlas that never got my order right, the steals at thriftown, produce on 24^th st, china bazaar where it truly is, movies at delores park, lime popsicles, the bike kitchen, open studios, the freaks at station 40, indy media, the docs at the roxy, the basement of atv, the industry of cool, balmy ave, burtnwire,16^th & Mission, the CAI, and everything else that changed me.

To all those tripping over their own talent, for everyone struggling to make it, to the genuine human specimens that make up this wondrous playground you will always be with me