Thursday, October 5, 2023

Staycation day 3 of 7. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk, flax meal, cacao nibs, toasted slivered almonds, toasted shaved coconut, blueberries; hot water. Rode Muni and walked to Montgomery Street Station. Walked to The Bird for lunch, but it was too crowded, so instead I walked to The Grove and had a breakfast sandwich (egg and cheese with arugula) and a hash brown. Iced tea to drink. I love the chunkiness of the hash brown. Service is excellent and friendly. Afterwards I walked to SFMOMA. Yayoi Kusama's Infinite Love was open for a member preview, but I'm not a member and did not want to join. I saw Yayoi Kusama: Aspiring to Pumpkin’s Love, the Love in My Heart. I saw just about everything I could, including much of which I had seen before: Afterimages: Echoes of the 1960s from the Fisher and SFMOMA Collections; Twin Walls Mural Company, Our Ancestors’ Wildest Dreams; Living Wall; Sitting on Chrome: Mario Ayala, rafa esparza, and Guadalupe Rosales; Kinship: Photography and Connection; Sea Change: Photographs from the Collection; New Work: Fernando Palma Rodríguez; Marshall Brown Projects: Dequindre Civic Academy; Marshall Brown Projects: Dequindre Civic Academy; What Matters: A Proposition in Eight Rooms; Hung Liu: Witness; Alexander Calder: Dissonant Harmony; Sadie Barnette: SPACE/TIME (2022); Freeform: Experiencing Abstraction; German Art After 1960. Afterwards I rode Muni to the Castro and met Patrick at Sisters Coffee Shop. We walked to dinner at Starbelly, eating inside rather than in the back patio because this is one of the few days of the year when you want air-conditioning. Cocktails: mezcal margarita for Patrick, patio punch for me. We shared a bowl of gazpacho and a roasted summer corn pizza with Aleppo chile on the side. Both dishes were a bit spicy, but I was able to eat them. We rode Muni home then watched Extrapolations s1:e6 on Apple TV+. Extrapolations is essentially Black Mirror in the context of climate change. Patrick went to bed. I washed a few dishes.