Bell's Eccentric Café and Brewery

Eccentric ahead of it's time-- especially for Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Bell's is the central coast mecca for beer nerds. Their most popular
brew, Oberon, an American wheat ale, marks the official start of
summer on the Central Coast. The orange sun/blue sky label is a common
sight through midwest summers, and a cult classic nation wide. Since
it's not distributed to the west coast, I feel the need to high five
the Bell's-hoodie-wearing-hippies at the Dead shows and other beer
nerd havens in the Bay Area. We also have a cat named Oberon.

We visited the Café on our way up to Rothbury. Lots of classics on
tap, including Oberon and Two-Hearted, but also some new ones like the
"experimental rye with wild yeast". An accident, probably, but
eccentric indeed.

For food, we got the peanut butter and pickle on grilled wheat, a
Tempeh sando, and a burger.

Mills Farm Co-op

Growing up surrounded by Amish you seem to become ambivelent to what they do. I really still have little clue what there life is about but the roadsides are littered  with nice homes and small farms and people who seem content with lifes struggles.
This small farm/community/co-op is located along M-66. They have a bakery and small farm and are in true amish tradition, electicity free. We stopped and purchased some wild black rasberries and carrots.
This may seem like a small accomplishment but in an area with nothing but factory farms it's amazing these people are still able to stay simple. Growing things other than corn and soybeans is a rare thing in southern Michigan.

(real life bent over Amish lady, not one of those wood cutouts)

Dark Horse Brewing Co.

Located in Marshall, MI. One of my favorite breweries ever-- great
beers and an eclectic, ramshackle beer garden that puts Zeitgeist to
shame. 2 home-made stages, raised garden beds complete with topsy-
turvy tomatoes and a hop arbor.

Walker Farmers' Market

Located in Cambridge, Michigan off US 12. We were lucky to catch the
last hour on our way to Sturgis. Ribs and polish sausage from Suchman
Swine Sausage. Chunky salsa and apple BBQ sauce from Brainerd Farms.
Sweet, perfectly ripe strawberries.

David Byrne

David Byrne of Talking Heads
Songs of David Byrne and Brian Eno
with guests: DeVotchka
Greek Theater
Berkeley, Ca

Video with Extra Action Marching Band who marched through the crowd to the stage for then encore.

One of the best shows ever. Everything from obscure Brian Eno works all the way to the Talking Head hits. The venue was on fire with energy by the end of Burning Down the House.

June 21, 2009 Harvest

Potato, onion, varegated land cress.
Howard Langon Garden in SOMA

Les Claypool

Warfield, SF
June 20, 2009

Terrible photo again.

Yard Dogs Road Show

So we were real busy for a while and missed bunch of things we should
have posted. Back on track now...

Dodgy camera phone to be replaced soon. Much better concert photos in
the future.

Yards Dogs Roadshow & Black & Blue Burlesque
Warfield, SF
June 20, 2009