Jan Null's Moon Shot; Oakland Tribune Tower Love; Assist from Mom; KRON Strokes: Liviakis and Folsom

Jan Null is the local weather pro with the NWS and a cool bud--he took the picture of the FULL MOON last (Monday) night and I'm just freaked out looking at it and I've seen it a million times already; props for Jan.

Birthdays after a certain age are, yes, yearly reminders that you're getting old. That all said, thanks for the mention. If I'm lucky, I'll get an XXL cup of Peets today with the bagel.

I'll go Downtown Oakland and nosh a little in Chinatown --a most underrated zone --with great dim sum places and my cafe oasis away from the troubles of moi and the world. I'll stay clear of the local mess and concentrate less on the bad, bad, earthquake in Turkey --what a tragedy.

I'll sit and gaze at the iconic, (still) Oak Tribunr Tower, a majestic architetual wonder every night lit up and looking as grand as it did a near-century ago.

Mom took me to get a hot dog at the nearby smoke shop up the street on Franklin past the old phone comp. building. Mom worked there for twenty years --it holds lots of memories.

Janis, a sales woman for one of the media gulchers on Battery near the Embarcadero told me the streets are still empty on Mondays and Fridays when the offices let out--it looks like a ghost town. The city in North Beach and The Marina is relatively back post-pandemic but downtown, Market St, and the area near the ball park is still dark and people-less.

If KRON had less than its current 22,000 weather updates, I'd be OK with that.

The new KRON sports anchor/reporter I plugged recently came down to Earth in a sudden, fiery, personal manner, sorry to report.

Damon Bruce update: not any social media postings of pictures of his kid within the last 5 minutes.

That weekend reporter from PIX who likes to sip good wine and laugh and giggle out loud with the ladies caused quite a stir at the Old Ship last week, supposedly a few people were not amused and exited out en masse to Kokkari, where the olives and a drink cost about the amount of a new car.

Vicki Liviakis fav hangout is Kokkari and that alone is worth the price of a '74 Datsun.

Darya Folsom having a lone cup of coffee outside Mel Belli's old office on Montgomery --she had a serious look, a contract look. When she really wants to read the news and inject less giggle-stuff into the newscast, Darya is actually decent. She could be on LA TV in a nanosecond with that gestault but in the Bay Area, it doesn't play. In any event, here's a plug to Countess Folsom for her gracious wit, humanity, and perseverance.

Wink.